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You Never Know
You Never Knowmixed media collage, ingredients: vintage ephemera, pencil, image transfers, magazine cut-out on multi-media boardIt seems I've been saying this a lot lately. The world continues to grow...
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What the Flowers Know
What the Flowers Knowmixed media collage, 11 x 8.5 inchesingredients: vintage book cover and ephemera, dried plant parts, found objects, image transfers, mica, bradsavailable hereWhen I made this...
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Some Things I've Learned
First of all, I have to apologize for not getting around to reading everyone's blogs, and for not posting anything on my own blog for such a long time. As some of you may know, I've been spending most...
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Choices, Choices
Some of you may be aware that I'm trying to re-boot my (almost nonexistent) art business, and have been researching the best ways of doing so (see my last post for some of the things I've learned). So...
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Still Undecided...
Okay, I've narrowed down the first lot, chosen my favorites, and added a few more. I'm sure you're beginning to realize that I'm not good at making decisions... Please feel free to comment or not;...
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Art Challenge: Ritual/ Routine
When lovely Nadine of tinywoolf declared the theme for this art challenge "ritual/ routine", I knew I wanted to participate. It's such an interesting subject, I thought it would be easy to come up with...
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Trials and Tribulations, and New Work on the Way
I have several pieces that have been laying around my studio that haven't been shared due to the fact that I didn't have a decent, fully functional camera. After much research and thought, I finally...
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Untitled Post With Nothing in It
Until just a minute ago, that's what this was. For a very long time, started sometime in what seems like the distant past, this post had languished in a dormant state called, "I'm doing too many other...
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Progressing... a Few Quick Glimpses
Coming along slowly with the new piece I first showed you in this post. It's been quite a while since I completed something; as some of you may know, I've been busy studying business things. More about...
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New Work: Temple
Temple, 17.5 x 11 inches, mixed mediaingredients: vintage book cover, monotype, vintage maps and engineering drawings, other vintage ephemera, metallic ink, found objects, brads, brass wire, acrylic...
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Art Challenge: Birds
When I found out the theme for this week's Art Challenge was "Birds", I couldn't resist, despite the fact that I'm busy trying to build a new website (trying is the operative word here), and I've got...
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So Far...
Despite drowning in a sea of product tags, focus keywords, alt attributes, meta descriptions, and SEO titles, I have managed to make a little more progress on When I was a Bird, a collage I had started...
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When I Was a Bird
When I Was a Birdcollage on multi-media board, 8 x 14 inchesingredients: vintage book pages and hand-written letters, image transfers, magazine cut-outs, gampi paper, water color crayons and pencils,...
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In My Garden
This is why they call it butterfly weed...The yellow hostas have a strange pale flower that I like very much.Coreopsis verticillata blooms all summer, if you deadhead it... I need to do that about a...
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Porkbelly Press 07.11.17
Porkbelly Press has just published a new chapbook, MEXICAMERICANA, (poetry) by Eloisa Amezcua, and I'm super excited to say my work is on the cover! The incomparable and very industrious Nicci Mechler...
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Commission Painting Finished!
I don't typically do much commission work, but I am always open to it if I have the time and it's something I know how to do. And, when the clients are your daughter and son-in-law, how can you refuse,...
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Transformation 47
I seem to have amassed quite a bunch of art works that I haven't yet put online. There are several reasons for this, including the lack of a good camera to take photos of art, too much other stuff...
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The Little Things
As I get older, I find more nad more that it's the little things that make me happy. I tend to pass some of these things by, because they're not big and showy; it's easy to miss them.There are lots of...
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Great Falls of the Potomac
Todd, Lindsey, and Colin at the Great Falls Tavern Visitor CenterOn a recent trip to visit my son and daughter-in-law in Washington, DC, we went to the Great Falls of the Potomac. I never would have...
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Washington, DC 2 (Too) - Monumental
This is my second post with the purpose of sharing the sights from my recent vacation to Washington, DC. There is so much to see there, and of course, I can't seem to keep myself from taking an...
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The National Botanical Gardens and National Arboretum
We went to the Botanical Gardens primarily to see Corpse Flower, which had already bloomed, but was still pretty impressive. The flower is about 3 - 4 feet tall, and smells like rotting meat. When I...
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The Smithsonian Castle and the Hirshorn Museum, Washington, DC
The Smithsonian "Castle" was the first Smithsonian Museum. It doesn't house many exhibits today, but the building and gardens are beautiful.It was raining, so we didn't get a chance to see the...
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The Renwick Gallery in Washington, DC: Art, or Craft?
 This isn't my photo, but I wanted you to see the outside of this gorgeous building. It came from the Smithsonian site, here.New York City-based artist Leo Villareal has pioneered a particular type of...
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Goodbye and Hello
I'm not talking about physical places, but rather, online places. This will be my last post here. Blogger was really my first online "home", and of course, it seems a bit sad to leave it. Here, I...
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I've Moved!
This is just a reminder, in case you're still following me on the blogger feed, that I have moved to a new website and blog. I hope you will follow me on over there and read my new blog posts! The...
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