painting every day

2009-04-07T18:00:00.003-04:00

Another one in the series...Fall Landscape painting in West Virginia.

5" x 8" on 140 lb moleskin sketchbook paper.

Moving away from what is literal is a hard transition to make when one has only ever thought about how to be specific. Here, I am not trying to be specific at all, rather, to allow the colors and the landscape forms to blend as one.

2008-12-27T10:30:00.002-05:00

Fall Landscape.

Watercolor 5" x 8".

This is another part of my series.

2008-11-24T20:34:00.005-05:00

15" wide x 30" high

Watercolor on 300 lb cold press paper

Emerging Landscape

2008-11-24T20:30:00.004-05:00

5" x 8" watercolor landscape.

2008-11-18T21:34:00.007-05:00

5" x 8" watercolor in my moleskin sketchbook.

The color is not right in the photo for some reason.

More to come.

2008-11-17T19:11:00.003-05:00

5" x 8" watercolor.

moleskin sketchbook series

2008-11-15T22:09:00.004-05:00

Landscape Meditation.

5" x 8" watercolor in Moleskin sketchbook.

For me, the trees seems to emerge from the abstract nature of the background. This is a quality I am now following in my work. This is becoming a series of paintings that may turn into a small published book. Certainly they are driving the weaving pieces I am doing (I am also a weaver of large scale wall hangings that are hand painted). More to come!

2008-11-11T19:36:00.004-05:00

Landscape #2. White Marsh.

Silent and distant are the waters of the deep ocean. When I am at the ocean, beach, I get lost in time listening to the waves move their magic at the land's edge.

5" x 8" watercolor in my Moleskin sketchbook.

2008-11-05T21:08:00.002-05:00

Landscape 1.

5"x 8" watercolor in my moleskin sketchbook.

Part of my daily creative practice. First, I go through my daily meditations, then I either paint or weave. I whole series has begun to evolve. Maybe I will publish the series.

Kind-of takes me back to my Italy series - 36 paintings showing my trip to Italy summer 2007. At any rate, they are fun. I am not concerned with a landscape, per se', but that is what is coming through in most cases.

2008-07-13T22:30:00.004-04:00

Fireworks in South Philly. BUT...not quite done yet.

14' X 11" oil on gallery stretched canvas.

2008-07-12T09:32:00.007-04:00

Flowing Waters.

20" x 20" oil painting on stretched canvas.

2008-07-12T09:28:00.002-04:00

Still on my easel, still wet...

2008-07-11T11:04:00.004-04:00

Changing Sky over the Delaware River

6" x 6" oil on stretched canvas.

2008-07-10T17:44:00.002-04:00

Wow, spent a whole day in the studio just painting. Finished another river painting and a figure painting. Then started a second figure painting. I have not been painting in oils - been doing watercolor for about four years. I have taken out the oils and I am really enjoying them. I guess once schooled in one method it feels like home. I am eager to continue and see what develops. It is all a part of a journey.

2008-07-10T13:00:00.003-04:00

Delaware River

6" x 6" oil on stretched canvas.

We need to get to the root of our creative practice. Sometimes that means going home. This past weekend we went home to New Jersey, the place where Rick and I began our married life. Lambertville, NJ is a sweet town filled with amazing little galleries and shops. This painting is from a view on the bridge that crosses the Delaware River into New Hope, PA, looking down river editing out buildings and people floating in inner tubes. Just the river.

2008-07-09T12:33:00.003-04:00

Forest Floor.

22" x 30" watercolor.

2008-07-08T22:46:00.003-04:00

...abstract watercolor painting.

22" x 30"

2008-07-05T08:13:00.005-04:00

Jealousy.

22" x 30" watercolor.

2008-07-02T23:03:00.004-04:00

Rice Measure #1

6" x 6" oil on stretched canvas.

For sale. $95.00. This paintings will come carefully packaged ready for framing.

2008-07-02T14:47:00.003-04:00

I will be launching a new series of paintings for sale on Ebay.

The paintings will be 6"x 6" oil on stretched canvas.

Please spread the word! Watch for the first posting on Wednesday, July 2, 2008.

2008-06-29T15:10:00.004-04:00

Sandwich Making.

15"x 22" watercolor.

Every 2nd First Day (Sunday) the children at our Quaker Meeting make sandwiches for homeless and others in greater need than ourselves. This a picture of my daughter and another child stuffing bags. They make about eighty bag lunches to be given away.

2008-06-28T18:08:00.003-04:00

Here is the newest series. I am combining elements that include fabric, dishes and the deep thoughts behind my creative practice. There are words written into the painting.

22"x 30" watercolor.

2008-06-21T20:43:00.003-04:00

Grandmom's Dishes 7.

11 x 15 watercolor.

Which is taking over, the cups or the fabric cloth?

2008-06-20T22:25:00.002-04:00

Grandmom's Dishes 6.

11x 15 watercolor.

Here is the first painting in which the writing appears. It is here the work is taking a turn. Many things develop and change in the course of one's creative practice. Here is one of those places where I undergo a search for something new in my delivery.

2008-06-10T14:15:00.002-04:00

Grandmom's Dishes.

11" x 15" watercolor.

Flooded with light. Abstracting. Playing with the imagery.