Hello! It’s a view into “process” today…

Yesterday I shared the Origins series from way back…one of the techniques I used in those pieces is what I call...”thread pulling”

It's a little like trippy 60&rs

Going back in time today with a post from the “archive”

These are details from the Origins Series…I created way back I think in 2004!

Back then…I was fascinated by cells and the beginnings of life…actually all thes

New week! New prompt! A good one for a Monday ...“Focus & Priorities”

There is something about creative energy that tries to escape anything that sounds as efficient as “focus & priorities”

I’ve never been muc

Happy Friday! Today’s theme is “in use”...
Having an art show in a gallery is real nice but I LOVE seeing my work in collectors homes...even better seeing it in such good company with a beautiful baby grand! Perfect mix of new &

Day 10...”small detail!”
Mini paint dots on minis coming for the tour✨

Got behind yesterday...catching up with “Learning Curve”…

It’s been almost a year since the pandemic arrived and altered our everyday lives.

At the time I was in the midst of trying to help move my 80 year old parents out

Delighted today to share a “newest make”…

While waiting for my oil paintings to dry I often dabble with pin-punch pieces. They are on watercolor paper and I use a tool to punch on both sides of the paper. Just for a fun play on &l

After yesterday’s deepness...today’s post is short & sweet with a fun prompt of “What’s on your desk?”

My best work isn’t done at a desk because “my kind of magic" happens on the studio floor.

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“I would like to leave everything wide open to all the possibilities in the world.”

— Haruki Murakami

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Instar: The strange resonant word

Work on Paper: box full of darkness

Infinite Instar: in every direction

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New painting series: infinite instar

Work on Paper: nothing is a myth

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Art On View: Earth + Ether

Mandalas At The Jeweled Warrior

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2023 County Collector Mini

Pop Up at Collabery Art Gallery

Dark Illuminations

I’ve used the magic of Photoshop & Lightroom to blend these dark Illumination drawings into digital atmospheres.

To me, they are sort of strange bits of visual poetry. Some way of meshing the imagination into an actual moment.

I’m hoping they are more than the sum of their parts…if you know what I mean?

Lacuna: copper alchemy

This time around, I figured out how to make the “elusive blue” stain I was going for. I gave up looking for copper scraps and just went to Lowes and got some pipe fittings.

Oh! the blue was beautiful…but almost disappeared when it dried on the paper. Although, it does seem to deepen after I add wax to the paper!

Work In Progress: The energy of beginnings

I’m flipping through my journal. The gold letters on its cover spell out “In the midst of our lives, we must find the magic that makes our souls soar.”

Inside it’s a real mess of a thing. A mix of notes, mind dumps, and recordings of random dreams. I come across an entry from early January. In it, I tell myself to

Winter: deep dive into darkness

A collection of dark art & quotes to muse on as we dive into the darkest days of the year…Hope you enjoy!

Lacuna: nothing is something

Lacuna…is a beautiful word I had never heard. I like to say it aloud…it sounds to me like a tropical island!

It actually is a word used in connection with…

Commission Reveal: Flourish

It feels wild, not in the sense of being out of control but in the sense of being totally free. Because I paint intuitively I never know what is going to show up in the final piece. I love this connection to the unknown…It’s exciting to see what

Autumn Vibes: Frost Land

I wake up cold. I can feel there’s a good chance of frost in the low meadow so I fumble around awkwardly to get dressed while still inside my sleeping bag. I grab my camera. I walk under golden…

Cosmic: Mandala Mala Project: Crazy!

side effect of being an artist is having some of the most amazing people swirl into my orbit. Many of these “stars” can see way more in my art than even I can!⁠ This has always made me feel that things are truly more…