May 22 minSpring Energy!Spring cleaning also means taking care of loose ends like making better photos of paintings that I am trying to sell. I recently read in...
Mar 201 minBig Change for the EquinoxThis is the week of the spring equinox -- a time of big changes. Here in southern Vermont it is mud season in my driveway. Daytime...
Jan 152 minLearning How to Take My Own Art ImagesI worked for years with a wonderful photographer. About twice a year I loaded up my paintings in the back of the mini van and dropped...
Dec 14, 20211 minTrying Something NewI use a resin to adhere the glass to the prints and the tray when I make my pendants. The company I used to buy my resin from has gone...
Nov 26, 20211 minA New Crop of PendantsAfter looking in boxes, on shelves, behind curtains, and other out of the way places I finally found my pendant making kit! This batch...
Nov 24, 20211 minGift CertificatesI just added a listing for Gift Certificates to my Etsy shop. I think I broke the rules doing this - so I am hoping that they don't take...
Nov 22, 20211 minI'm Having a Sale!I am part of the Thanksgiving sales splurge temptation now! Everything in my Etsy shop is 20% off until December 1. I have never done...
Nov 21, 20211 minIn Love with Ready to HangI had these cradle boards around the studio for about a year without being interested in doing anything with them. Suddenly they caught...
Nov 20, 20211 minLayers!My studio time today was adding more layers of green to this painting of the sun rising through the trees in my parents' back yard in...
Nov 18, 20211 minNovember Mandala When I first painted my mandala series I had the goal of making a painting for each festival on the Celtic Wheel of the year and, if...
Nov 13, 20211 minStudio Day #1 for Mystery Art ProjectWell, it's not that much of a mystery if you know me at all. Stacy Salpietro-Babb and I are working on a new Tarot deck. I just nested...
Nov 12, 20211 minGift Wrapping for Small PaintingsSometimes being a little bit of a "hoarder" is a good thing. I have a roll of beautiful paper in my studio - where it came from is a...
Nov 11, 20211 minI'm Posting a LOT I just don't want this Studio Journal to start off blank for a long time -so I'm getting my thoughts out. I just sent a newsletter to...
Nov 11, 20212 minTrying to be like Henri RousseauI got to be in the same room as Henri Rousseau paintings this past summer when I visited MoMA. This is a picture of that happening. The...
Nov 11, 20212 minCovid Continues to Deliver DissapointmentMany people suffer from Covid, the actual virus and its effects on our economics and society --- a lot more than me. I get it. But this...
Nov 11, 20212 minStudio DaysI am taking a mental health break from social media.The anxiety of worrying about missing something that I felt throughout the day has...