If i were a little sunny yellow birdy and it was time for me to feather my drab, twiggy-brown nest, i’d be super-psyched to find a mess of brightly colored ribbons and string and wire. JACKPOT! A friend of mine who is moving into a new home got me thinking about housewarming gifts and how [...]

Some people tie strings around a finger, or stick post-its on their bathroom mirror. i made this little drawing. These are the things i need to remember about my art. i drew this in ink on a little piece of colored Canson paper. i started with my eyes closed and just made swirls on the [...]

i’m on a mission.  must complete all my half-finished artwork from the past several months! My day job has gotten the better of me and i’ve begun way too many projects without ever completing them. i had watercolored these circles way back and never completed the piece. SO….i might seem like i’m really cranking it [...]

Here is a new piece i’ve been playing with. I’ve had a lot of interest doing drawings by hand and then coloring, texturizing and embellishing them in photoshop. This one is my idea of of how my imagination-land looks in my noggin….full, saturated color and crazy pattern. It’s like my imagination is exploding all around [...]

For Easter, my 4 year old son got a new set of watercolors. What’s better than that? They look like candy. He’s been having lots of fun splashing and swooshing. This quickie artwork calls to mind the word-for-the-day around here : )

Several months back i got the notion for this artwork. i love drawing tendrils and curves and curliques and wanted to do a stylized portrait series focusing on hair. For a long time, the idea was a bit fuzzy in my mind and i didn’t know exactly what i was shooting for. i started looking [...]

i’ve been following A Creative Life, Mary Ann Wakeley’s blog, for about a year now. She is one PA artist who inspires me to no end. She achieves what i aspire to. She balances texture & complexity of composition with vivid color. She makes subtle, calm colors play nicely with wild, raw ones in such [...]

Not like the others. Sometimes i feel this way in a crowd. And that little ditty we learned on Sesame Street will pop into my head. One of these things is not like the others One of these things just doesn’t belong. When i was younger, i was different because my hair was pretty darned [...]

Why did i create this piece? This one started as a study of form, and i’d spent about 8 hours on it when i decided i’d have to scrap it. It was out of balance somehow. i told myself it was no biggie, it was just an exercise, and it had been extremely calming and [...]

Everybody is full of spring fever! i sat in a sunny window yesterday and started daydreaming in color on a piece of lovely, grainy wood. Nothing better than that. This is a snapshot of the work in progress. Once the background is finished, i’ll be showing this board some layer-y love with other mediums and [...]