Living in Arizona, there are so many things to do. My husband and I love to hike and had friends who did too. Our friends had hiked the Chiricahua National Monument Mountains in the area called ’Heart Of Rocks.’ The good news, you park two cars, one at the start of...
While I was teaching my private adult watercolor classes in 1984, I took many trips to visit the Scottsdale, Arizona art galleries. After one of these trips, I decided to “stage” a composition. I dressed my daughter, Nicole, in western cowboy boots, long skirt, shirt,...
By 1986, I was using photography to stage my compositions instead of just ‘finding them. We have a summer home on a lake in Missouri. We were living in Oklahoma at the time, and drove to the lake often throughout the year. When summer arrived, my children and I stayed...
“Breathless Reds and Phantom Blues” watercolor is the seventh painting in the “Pots and Jars Series”. The series started with “Pots and Jars,” using natural colors of browns and blues in a realistic, representational technique. The next in line paintings in order are:...
During our years in Oklahoma, I was still depending on my photo archive from Arizona for painting subject matter. I saw a tile staircase from Sedona, Arizona in Tlaquepaque with great shadows and color. It brought me back home and what I loved. The title to the...
During a trip to visit my mother-in-law in Houston, my husband and I made a day trip to Galveston Island. We drove all over the island, especially through the older neighborhoods. I was watching for potential painting compositions, when we drove past a huge group of...
