art for everyone

Here is my friend, Tim, holding his little bird sketch he got at my first art show. Tim is a wonderful cook and an interesting man. He wanted another bird I painted but someone else got that first, while he was serving the marvelous food he prepared for my party. Thanks, Tim!

Finishing the Face

New Work

I recently remembered that one of my daughters woke up one morning, when she was two and announced of reverence, "It turned blue! Last night it was pink and now it's blue!" I had been working on the painting at night while she slept. Recently I've taken to working over a couple of paintings I thought were finished.

Here are a couple of photos of pieces I've recently worked on:

My First Art Show!

Wow. It's like standing around with no clothes on, in front of an audience. I had my "old" art for sale (some from the 1970's), and put it all around my house, invited my friends and...well, here are a couple of pictures to share:

Art Old and New

I have old art, stacked up, some in frames, some I did 30 years ago...time to let some go to make room for new pieces.

I let go of many skeins of yarn lately, also. Out with the old! Make room for the new!

Mosaic Tile Cement

I was thinking recently about mastery. It takes people years to get mastery of any given task, or career, or athletic ability. I have been saving pieces for years to make a mosaic out of. I have another post about it...here

I hired Micha from Emerald City Mosaic to grout, because the mosaic took 4 plus hours and I wanted the end result to look great. He told me I had used the wrong adhesive. Who knew? So I made two and one half mosaics, because one fell off. Here is the one that fell off:

Making Art

I draw when I am waiting for things, like in a seminar, or at an airport...here is a sketch I made of a person listening in a class.

Here is a video I made while working on a project. I was quite engaged in making little cartoon people out of photos of people I saw in magazines.