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  • Pastel Landscape

    I decided I wanted to play with my pastels today and was flipping through my photos looking for a floral picture to paint. Instead I came across a picture of a small watercolor abstract landscape I painted a few years… Continue reading

    Pastel Landscape
  • New art at LSG

    It’s a new month starting this week so that means I have fresh art up at Lawrence Street Gallery. I embraced the spring energy this month and have a lot of bright and flowery pieces. The Exposures annual photography show… Continue reading

  • Blue still on my mind

    Today I gathered my blues themed art for submission to the GPAA Blues show. Looking through all my art work often fuels my next project and my phone is full of pictures well suited for pastel work. I decided on… Continue reading

    Blue still on my mind
  • Pastel Practice

    This evening my mom, son and I attended a Poetry Slam at Anton, and while I listened to the poems, my eyes were drawn to the landscape artworks on the gallery walls. It inspired me to try my hand painting… Continue reading

    Pastel Practice
  • Looking up

    Tomorrow is intake for the group show at Anton with the theme Sky & Space. Tonight I had to decide which pieces to enter so I could order the prints to be ready in the morning. Thank goodness for Walgreens.… Continue reading

    Looking up
  • 335 – More Filtered Light

    Tonight I was just going to edit a few of my pictures and give them the Filtered Light treatment. Once I started I got sucked in and worked on these for a few hours. I have a large collection now.… Continue reading

    335 – More Filtered Light
  • Inktober day 15

    Today’s Inktober prompt was guide book, but I was inspired to draw my traveler’s journal. I set up a still life of my journal and my straw hat and took a picture to work from, since I needed the notebook… Continue reading

    Inktober day 15
  • Inktober day 13

    Today I broke out the pink ink for the horizon prompt for inktober. I thought it was fitting for my sunrise over Lake St Clair. But sailors better take warning with all that red in the sky. I took today’s… Continue reading

    Inktober day 13
  • Inktober day 11

    For today’s prompt of snacks, I was reminded of the picture I took a while ago of this super friendly and bold squirrel at Blossom Heath Park. He was so used to getting fed by the seniors who frequent the… Continue reading

    Inktober day 11
  • Inktober day 9

    So today’s Inktober prompt was ‘Sun’ and I couldn’t help but think of Aeryn Sun from Farscape. Peeking ahead at the prompt list, I predict more Farscape themed sketches this month. This morning was a beautiful day to take the… Continue reading

    Inktober day 9