Reflecting on a painting. For our Workshop at Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO, on Saturday, I did my usual warm-up exercises, and was very happy with this abstract sumi e painting… “Our Love” 1919S I think, what love does to us is a Gordian knot, it’s that complicated. M. Oliver -‘Porcupine’   At first I […]

What a happy experience we had Finding our Hearts and Souls in the Sumi Brushwork Workshop at Foothills Art Center on a beautiful October day in Colorado! Students meditate, observe, go deeply into paintings both they themselves as well as myself have made, finding the meaning that is within their own hearts. Because of our […]

Last week I shared insights on seeing Sumi e abstract art works from heart and soul. This week I want to make a crossover to one of my favorite figurative paintings. I had in the past named this painting (on marilynwells.com  -look in the Gallery “Just For Art Collectors”) simply “Eastern Star”. True, it is […]

Want to take a personal journey into seeing more deeply? Do you know that seeing abstract sumi e from heart and soul can take you to a deeper level of insight, intuition, and understanding? It’s really a form of “sacred seeing”, like the ancient monastic tradition of lectio divina*, except lectio has to do with […]

If happiness comes in small packages, it was urban sketching with the Louisville Art Association on August 14, all day, long hours of leisure, laughter, and creative talent being enjoyed together! We found this pickup truck right across the street from the Art Center and spent a couple of happy hours sketching there together. A […]

I took my Denver Urban Sketching group sketching in the Cathedral of Immaculate Conception. There’s a last minute big date and opportunity coming up August 14 with the Louisville Center for the Arts to still participate for an all day sketching in Louisville.   Just as we were finishing, I noticed the reflections from the […]

Let’s see what my sumi e on tee shirts would look like. Let’s be both purist and practical, I said to myself. Why not put my art on tee shirts? travel mugs and tote bags. I’ll use them myself! The dragon’s jewels are found     in every wave. Looking for the moon, it is […]

To “Find Your Heart and Soul in Sumi e Brushwork”, we gathered at Walker Fine Art, Denver CO in May. As a sumi artist, I led my workshop here. This is a great setting for a new experience in meditative painting! Here’s what I have to say right now about this process: “When I teach […]

Many of you have been following me a long time and have loved my paintings. If you have been longing to have one but it has not been in your budget, I want you to be able to own one of my paintings. So I’m having a Summer sale – sumi, watercolor, and ink drawings […]

With registrations for “Finding Your Heart and Soul in Sumi e” coming in, we’re on our way to having a really good workshop on May 7! Please pre-register so you’re on my list. New information is below. With sumi e work, anything is possible. Some of you may want to work in a more traditional […]