The portrait painting has really grabbed me...I hope you can endure some more from me...This was done from a photograph that Jeannie McGuir...

Here is another from the workshop...more than unfinished, but a good start...now that I know that you can just keep adding color, opaque, w...

This piece was done during a Jeannie McGuire workshop. Her painting just won the Gold Medal of honor award at the AWS annual show. I really...

(15"x17") This is a painting I did in May during an open studio event. I have so many photographs of different flowers, that I ca...

This was a gentleman selling fish in Marseille..I have done some others of him with his hat on..so this is him "unhatted" so to s...

Lounging in the sun...that's what we all need a bit of now and then..this is another Mexican sketch from earlier this year...My posting...

This sketch is from my kitchen journal and shows that not all sketches have to be "glamorous"...This was a quick sketch of the po...

A quick warmup abstract piece..testing colors, patterns, materials, brushes, line, texture..etc.. This type of subject needs tons more expl...

I'm fascinated by the folds in fabric...I don't think I've really played with them much since college, but find them challengin...

This was one of my demo pieces for my annual Peony workshop...this year the weather cooperated and the peonies were glorious..."June J...

Happy July! This is a different piece for me...it is inspired by Mexico and the trip earlier this year....but the subject is a bit unique f...

Here's another favorite subject that's been long neglected...the feathered friend. He's not all together too sure about why I wa...

It's been entirely too long since I posted a good old fashioned floral watercolor...Maybe it's because I've been exploring othe...

Some of you might recognize this musician from an earlier post...I tried to capture him several times on paper. It's good practice to p...

This is a 12"x12" piece done on the Fluid watercolor paper....I had an email about Fabriano paper and if it was good quality and ...

Trying out my new Fabriano block in 12"x16"..size is always an issue...we can get caught up in the standard quarter, half and ful...

Testing papers, testing pigments and testing restraint! Trying not to overwork and definitely leaving white and revisiting Arches 300 lb CP...

I just took stock of all the blank sketchbooks in my studio...they look nice all lined up, but they certainly would look better full of colo...