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Art Festival Days Away
It is a snowy day here in Vermont as I write to you. But I feel the woods waking up anyway. There is a difference in the light and there...
Mar 14, 20232 min read


New Work - and New Paintings too!
Twelve 24" oil paintings completed in the last year are in the grid above. Add to these twenty small paintings that I completed for the...
Feb 17, 20231 min read


A Gift for My Subscribers
I'm starting something new! I keep a notebook - it's a binder of my notes on the plants in the wild and gardens around me which I add to...
Dec 4, 20221 min read


After the Rush - Looking Forward
I love the current series I'm working on. I call it "Specimens" and it combines my Mandala and Roadside Weeds series by being in a circle...
Dec 1, 20222 min read


A Two Person Exhibit with Lauren Watrous & Me!
I have never had free rein over an exhibit like this. Today Lauren and I stood in the middle of the Community Room at the Governor Hunt...
Sep 25, 20221 min read


Little Wooden Print Experiment
I just added little wooden prints of some of my newer paintings for sale on my Etsy site. These are fun 4" squares of wood with images of...
Sep 14, 20221 min read


Little Paintings
Little paintings are on the way! I am currently creating a collection of small works that look like little moments in my big paintings. I...
Sep 2, 20221 min read


Art Workshop, Saturday June 4th - Limited Space Available
Hello Friends, Please join me on a little creative adventure. First, some background. There is a beautiful parcel of land in Marlboro...
May 23, 20222 min read


Spring 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...
May 2, 20222 min read


Big Change for the Equinox
This is the week of the spring equinox -- a time of big changes. Here in southern Vermont it is mud season in my driveway. Daytime...
Mar 20, 20221 min read


Learning How to Take My Own Art Images
I 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...
Jan 14, 20222 min read


Trying Something New
I 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...
Dec 14, 20211 min read


A New Crop of Pendants
After looking in boxes, on shelves, behind curtains, and other out of the way places I finally found my pendant making kit! This batch...
Nov 25, 20211 min read


Gift Certificates
I 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 24, 20211 min read


I'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 22, 20211 min read


In Love with Ready to Hang
I had these cradle boards around the studio for about a year without being interested in doing anything with them. Suddenly they caught...
Nov 21, 20211 min read


Layers!
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 19, 20211 min read


November 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 18, 20211 min read


Studio Day #1 for Mystery Art Project
Well, 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 13, 20211 min read


Gift Wrapping for Small Paintings
Sometimes 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 12, 20211 min read
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