My Denver Urban Sketching Group. Imagine a lazy, Sunday afternoon that just happens to be St. Patrick’s Day, and the hazy March sunshine is calling you out to be with friends. You find your sketching book, your favorite drawing pens, and that new little traveling set of watercolors you couldn’t resist again at the Art […]

I’m taking a relaxing break from painting by enjoying some basic ikebana, The Way of Kado, in my Sogetsu class. This is so very simple and lovely. Basic upright  nagiere style. “The ultimate purpose in Kado is not to make pleasant flower arrangements, but cultivate appreciation for each moment, to work with obstacles, and to develop […]

My art continues to evolve in this time of troubling government resolutions. When I first heard the news on the immigration situation at the border, I was deeply shocked. Even now this is hard for me to write, as the emotions continue to reverberate through my system. That separation of children from their mothers, from […]

I have just joined the Sogetsu Ikebana training in Ikebana under the tutelage of Midori Alleymeyer. Most of my art is seriously my own, taking a lifetime and as many hours a week as i can squirrel away; but here is something beautiful I can do with absolutely no consequences, pressure, or expectations! I am […]

Women have been the primary subject of my paintings for the past several years. This painting, I’m happy to share, has also just sold from my recent art show. 

Just playing with flowers and little t at my daughter’s house today – I grabbed a handful of flowers and