Miscellaneous

Blogs, blogs, blogs!

I have been scanning the web reading artist blogs. There are so many great ones that I can hardly choose which to follow. My favorite so far is Lori McNee's. Check out her fine art tips at this site…(continue reading)

Gratitude

 I've worked in the medical field and in education where it was not unusual to meet associates with, shall we say, very unattractive, egotistical personalities. Yet, the stereotypical artist is suppose to be self-absorbed. Guess what? That stereotype, in my experience, has been blown out of the…(continue reading)

Onward...

Things have finally settled down. For just teaching part time, this semester has been extremely busy. Sometimes I don't feel like I'm "semi-retired" at all. I've recently made time to get back to painting. My goal of painting every day fell by the wayside for a while, but lately I've been meeting that…(continue reading)

Artfest

Had a wonderful time at the Cottonwood Artfest in Richardson today. The weather was perfect. The crowd was friendly. The art was fantastic! Just a perfect day...wish more days could be like this. Sorry, I haven't been keeping this blog or this site, for that matter, up lately. My teaching has really…(continue reading)

Workshop Paintings

I've had a busy two weeks, but I'm finally getting a minute to update this. The Pat Waymon workshop was great! I did four paintings (that's a lot), two palette knife and two brush. I'll get photos of them and put them up tomorrow (got company coming today.) The workshop ran from 8-9 am to 5 pm with about…(continue reading)