September started off by meeting a friend at the Legends of the West gallery in Santa Fe for the 15th Annual Plein Air Painters of New...

Recently I've had occasion to spend some time with internationally renown minimalist artist, Max Cole. Over her long career she's lived...

That's right! Now I'm not only an art creator but also an art collector! Last week I had the privilege of meeting up with printmaker...

Last night I participated in a Zoom artist reception for the Marin Society of Artists' show "ALL ABOUT WOMEN 2023". It was a lot of fun...

I made an online shop!!! My original paintings (framed or unframed), archival quality fine prints, and notecards are all now available to...

You may recall dear reader that I planned on doing some landscape experiments in the studio to try out different techniques and find my...

How you answer may be related to how old you are! According to an Inc. post, a NASA study found that of 1,600 4- and 5-year-olds, 98...

This photo was generated by AI on 123rf.com You've heard that "curiosity killed the cat" but more often than not I find that curiosity...

For the past five weeks we've been on the road in our RV exploring Southern Colorado. I packed my travel easel/pastel case and planned to...

Meet our RV which I dubbed "Casita Arctica"(it's an "Arctic Fox" brand). The photo above was taken on our shake down trip to Las Cruses...

This summer I intend to experiment with plein air pastel painting and yesterday was my "shake down" trip. I packed up all my pastel gear...

Yesterday I finished my 17th still life painting! My first was finished in Dec, 2020 and my latest was finished this month--May 2023....

Yesterday I attended a New Mexico Women in the Arts private, members-only artist exhibition and reception at the Turner Carroll...

This past week I was invited to participate in a very special event called "Girls Can!" for local 5th grade girls. It was hosted by Luna...

This past week I had the privilege of participating in an artist panel discussion for GED students at Luna Community College in Las...

Yesterday I finished my latest Rattlesnake portrait--Diane. You can see a short slide show of its progression on my Instagram account....

Last week 14 artists and art lovers from Las Vegas took a field trip to Santa Fe where we toured the New Mexico Governor's mansion art...

Yesterday members of the New Mexico Women in the Arts came to Las Vegas, NM for an artist studio tour. About 11 people drove up from...

Recently a friend asked me to paint her black clothes hamper with bright flowers similar to the pattern on some other decorative items in...

A snow storm moved in late last week and gave us three days of cloudy skies, colder temperatures, and snow! About 6" fell and much of...