Did you know that male Dark-eyed Junco’s are darker than the females. I did struggle a bit with this one because of the dark feathers. I let it sit overnight so it would be easier to see what I needed to do to improve it. I had it to dark and flat so…

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Several have asked how I de-emboss around my mini art work so here is my attempt to show you how. First of all I call it de-emboss because I am pushing the image back rather than forward. To me embossing means pushing a design forward.  So If yo…

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I have been wanting for some time now to work on small pieces of art in between larger pieces and other work that take me away from painting. I also wanted the work to be affordable and a nice way for the buyer to frame easily.

Taking a few sheets …

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‘Empty Nest’ 10 x 20 inches Watercolor on Canvas

On many of my walks at Presque Isle State Park I was able to witness a
Yellow Warbler dipping in and out of some Japanese Honey Suckle next to
the path. Carefully I pushed aside the leaves and foun…

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Tonight I am gathering materials for a demo I am giving on Wednesday evening on using clear gesso, acrylic medium, and DS Watercolor Ground when in my search for older material I came across images I took when I painted John Muir. This was done in 2005…

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WOP  no title yet.

… and responding to spontaneity. I’ve been having this vague image popping into my head for some time now. It has never been complete in my vision but yet desperate to come out. I purchased this 16 x 20 gallery wrap canvas …

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Barn Swallows

The Barn Swallows are finished and ready for the exhibit coming up at the Stonewall Gallery. But I had to do a little fix first. Here is where you are going to love the new DS Watercolor Ground. If you loose  to much of your white…

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 The other day I was starting to feel as if my work did not belong in the art group I belong to where I live. Most of the members are focused on the abstract, and work large. I mentioned this to my husband and as my biggest supporter he made me …

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Finally you say! Yes I’m done with Letters to Chloe Series. Finished number 4 last week and they are all framed and waiting to be hung in a show opening the end of July. The NPAA Bienniel Exhibit opens July 28th.

For this last piece in this series I…

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Letters & Lace

Giclee Print in my Etsy Shop

I am excited to offer four new prints in my Etsy Shop. These four
originals were done for the NPAA Scholarship Event at the end of June.
Members from this art group created original works on 8 x 1…

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I LOVE Daniel Smith products so when they started to advertise their new watercolor ground I had to give it a try. I wanted to compare how the paint reacted in comparison to my mixture of clear gesso and acrylic medium mix. You can apply this ground t…

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  The second Letter to Chloe in this series is done! Ok so now that I have showed you the finished piece lets go back to where I left off from my last post in which I was getting read to transfer the image of the bird to my paper.
I got so ex…

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