Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 16th, 2009 12 Comments »
I haven’t posted about our upcoming move, since everything has been in turmoil, and I felt strange saying anything until I was sure what would happen. On October 1st we backed out on our offer on the house I mentioned in this post. We had been trying to resolve the many issues with the property [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, creative process on Aug 29th, 2009 3 Comments »
Today was the first of many moving days for our family this fall. We collected a trailer load of furniture & home goods for my daughter’s first place in Corvallis. I’ve been busy this week re-furbishing an antique sewing machine cabinet for her to use as a desk. Many hours of sanding, priming and painting [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 18th, 2009 2 Comments »
I finally got some of the photos from our trip to Idaho uploaded. Thanks Dana & Kayla for sharing photos with us! I have had problems recently with uploading more than a few photos per post, so decided to do a “slide” presentation from the trip. Mouse over the photos for the captions, to move [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 8th, 2009 4 Comments »
I’ve been out of touch for so long that one of my friends thought I’d been in a serious accident! No… just been on vacation! First of all, here is the photo of my favorite orchid, which is now almost through blooming I love this one because of it’s spectacular and unusual lemony fragrance. I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 24th, 2009 2 Comments »
I wanted to share with you one of the best compliments I received at the art festival last weekend, from Annika, age 6 I can’t believe it is already Friday! This week has flown by…. First of all, thank you to everyone who came by the Salem Art Fair last weekend. It was great to see [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, blogging, creative process on Jun 25th, 2009 4 Comments »
Yesterday, Donna Zagotta’s art blog had a great essay on creativity that began with this quote: “If we are able to stay with a situation, it will carry us to a new place.” Shaun McNiff I hope you’ll check out her blog for the entire article… This is something I believe in, and have been [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, creative process on Jun 21st, 2009 4 Comments »
It is always difficult to decide what to enter in a competition. Some artists try to guess what a juror or judge will like, perhaps from entering previous entries in competitions judged by the specific juror. Other artists try to submit something very unique, unusual subject matter for a painting or an unusual technique. Still [...]
Posted in Art Collectors, Critique, Uncategorized, blogging on Jun 15th, 2009 8 Comments »
It has been a busy weekend… our last two kids came home from college… I just about wrote ‘teenagers’, but our oldest just turned 21! How did that happen? Seems like just yesterday I was driving her to pre-school! She and I share the studio space for the summer, so I had to do a [...]
Posted in My Work on Display, Recently Viewed Art, Uncategorized on Jun 15th, 2009 No Comments »
I got an email tonight about the opening reception of the “Perceptions of the Past” exhibit. Apparently we made the local news. Here is a link to the video about the exhibit on The Daily Courier’s Website. My painting is the first image shown in the video The exhibit is set to travel to Central [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 7th, 2009 2 Comments »
In literature, as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -Andre’ Maurois How do other artists deal with rejection? I tend to cocoon… after getting a ‘declined’ notice this past week, I found myself wanting a nice little mini-vacation. It could also have had something to do with the head-cold that [...]
