Here’s a seed — I hope you will enjoy what blossoms on these pages — a taste of some paintings I did, beginning in Dallas and through the here and now. When I first began painting ay Pigment School of the Arts. I felt . . . OH so rusty, incompetent, dull, OLD and...
I never thought that when the Lord was talking about “End-Times" and the tribulation His people would experience — troubles unmatched from the beginning of the world — that it might be simply living in a time similar to that of the times of Judges: In those days...
Monday evening in Dallas was often a highpoint in my week; creating and kibitzing with talented women was better than therapy! When we lived in Dallas, I rarely missed a Monday evening at Pigment School of the Arts. Tori Pendergrass opened the door of her school at...
I learned a lesson through today’s Facebook follies. Ask questions, look for answers and be careful whom you quote! Reading memes that my friends post now takes the place of reading newspaper headlines. Sometimes they are just as snarky, and about as reliable, anyway....
These days bring news that evokes sobs: Oh! God! Equally, so many moments in each day show me unexpected blessings making me cry in gratitude, Oh! God! Has there ever been a crazier, a more disorienting, scary, wonderful era in my life? No. Until now, even when life...
Distilling Current Events into a Cup of Cold Water Our flowerbeds look like a lost cause. So did a painting I tried to finish. It was a lost cause, not worth redeeming. I was about to toss it, when I remembered the encouragement my former teacher and friend, Tori...
We have gone quite awhile without rain; this time last year, we were sick of rain. September was wetter in Baltimore only twice during the 20th century, and twice in the late 1800s. (Baltimore Sun, 10/01/18) I don’t remember that. Which is why keeping a journal...
The thing about a proverb is it may not be 100% true. But a witty proverb communicates truth for living. For example, an African proverb about owls says, the owl is the wisest of all the birds – the more it sees the less it says. That goes against the grain of...
Courage Springs from a Bug A positive side effect other the recent bout with the seasonal bug for so many weeks is I screwed up the courage to “do” art. It’s daunting to see what I am capable of “creating.” I use the word creating advisedly because most of what I...
A timely Meme got me going this morning: Sometimes you need to let go in order to start again. ~Dr. Tony Evans I didn’t really let go of Christmas though. The trimmings are wrapped and stowed away; but not entirely. I always find something that was hiding during my...
The vanishing point is hard to miss in a good painting; it's absence is often apparent in mine. So, before we left Dallas, I took a picture of a tool Tori Pendergrass used. I have a problem with perspective – so, it’s hard to make things and people look real;...
The inspiration for my latest painting was a black and white photo of an owl I downloaded from some site several years ago – but it languished in my “inspiration” folder. I did not have the confidence to paint so complicated a critter! Then, I screwed up my...
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