I am having to shift creative focus, from wildlife viewing and sketching, to sending out submission letters for my novel . Why spend all tha...

No sooner did I see my photos of this Carolina chickadee in the snow than I began to think about painting it. Since I haven't painted s...

Every year I create a list of experiences and accomplishments that marked the year's journey. Its my way of expressing gratitude for the...

When I go to visit my favorite art instructor in New York, Ann K. Lindsay , I am reminded of how actively my "critical mind" comm...

I have collected a small stack of backyard bird photos that have been tugging at me for the past few weeks, especially after capturing some...

While I’m on the subject of vultures , I thought I would introduce you to another favorite vulture friend of mine. She is a turkey vulture w...

I've been working on an illustration project for kids that consists of line drawings, absent of shading and color to allow budding arti...

It was this series of sandhill crane notecard images that prompted me to ask the question, "Is there any place on earth I could view an...

My kitchen has been transformed into a studio, the table filled with unfinished gourd art and pine needles ready for coiling . Not that the...

A friend of mine asked me, "what do you have after a week-long painting workshop? Did you come back with paintings?" I laughed. ...