art shows

  • A break from flowers

    I decided to take a break from the flower paintings today. My priority this morning was to complete my 4” square Winter themed painting for our library’s Tiny Art show. Last year was the first one they did, and I… Continue reading

  • Digital art poppy flowers

    As today is the first day of February our club has a new inspirational theme of Red. Since I’m on the flower kick I of course thought immediately of poppies, but as I have painted and sculpted them prolifically in… Continue reading

  • Busy day of Artsy things

    Today was a busy artsy day for me. I had two openings, the Michigan Annual at Anton and the Today’s Weather at the Grosse Pointe War Memorial. Since I couldn’t attend both at the same time my mom generously represented… Continue reading

  • Commissioned watercolor for a friend

    I used my Zoom with June time this morning to work on a special request from an old friend. She had a picture taken from her father’s property up north and asked me to paint it for her. She also… Continue reading

  • Colorful abstract kind of day

    Today is a cold wet grey Michigan day, so I felt something bright and colorful was in order. I took a break from my gouache today and popped back into watercolor mode. It may have been inspired a bit by… Continue reading

  • Playing with color

    Some days I have a clear idea of what I want to work on and other days… Not so much. Today was one of the latter. As I was looking around my living room for some inspiration, I was drawn… Continue reading

  • Revisiting the Pears and more good news

    On Fridays our art club has a Zoom paint-along. Today I decided to add the watercolor to the sketch of the pears I did last week. These pears were sketched from my imagination so I had no real pears or… Continue reading

  • Entered one show and accepted into another

    I started today of by getting my submissions ready for dropping off for the upcoming ‘Outdoors’ Show at Anton Art Center. This is a group show for five local art groups, including the Lakeside Palette Club, to which I belong.… Continue reading

  • Putting myself out there…

    Today was the deadline for another group show I was interested in entering. I currently have three of my ceramic pieces in the outgoing show at this venue. The theme for the next show is “Today’s Weather.” The watercolor above… Continue reading