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The Still Life: Appreciation of Five Little Things

The most famous still life’s in history are paintings of fruit and flowers, very common objects generally resting on tabletops. They are unlikely characters in anti-climactic settings. Yet, they persist in modern times as popular art pieces. Halved avocadoes and watering cans full of flowers provide simple, unassuming pleasure …
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Imagination and Happiness

Imagination is the mind’s ability to wander through possibilities and impossibilities to create ideas and original thought. It is what drives innovation and invention, and we wouldn’t enjoy our modern comforts without it. Imagination also takes us out of our comfort zone. It makes us call into question accepted …
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What language do I speak?

Imagination. Every brush stroke is a step toward a future that is imagined in my mind, even though I don’t know how that image will develop in the minds of the viewers. While painting, I may imagine myself sitting in the same setting with the subject of the painting, or …
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Painting Nature as the Seasons Change

Have you ever experienced the changing of the season? Recently, I went on the PleinAir Magazine Publisher’s Invitational for Fall Color Week in the Canadian Rockies. Walking through the woods to paint en plein aire became quite interesting as it began to snow that week and finding any “fall …
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Summer Can’t Last Forever

Wow…Summer is almost over. School has started and I can actually feel and see Fall approaching. This last week of rain and thunderstorms helped remind me of the changing seasons. Sunsets and seasons are the cycles of the earth and the cycles of life. Change, too, is a cycle of …
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Why do I create ART?

Last week when it was cold and windy here in Dallas, I was visiting and painting in New Mexico…Santa Fe, to be exact. I was joined by 1000 other artists at the Plein Air Convention. We painted all around the area but I ventured off to some other areas. …
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Historic Havana Cuba

Oh my gosh what a great time we had. A bucket list trip for sure! Painting in Old Havana, seeing the home of Ernest Hemingway, Cuban culture, the sights, sounds and smells were all delightful. It filled my artistic soul. I think I took about 1000 photo’s and I …
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Artist Speaks Showcase this SUNDAY!

I can promise giggles and laughs; art that inspires conversation and never a DULL moment. Join me Sunday, February 25th from 2 to 4 pm. in a rare opportunity to hear the stories behind the crazy ideas of my imagination and art. …
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It’s not a trick…it was a Treat!

This past Sunday, I went to the Membership Show Reception for the Visual Arts Guild Frisco…what a nice treat!  There is a lot of art this year and I must say the competition level is growing.  The curator was Robyn Parker Freehan from Gallery 8680.  Much to my surprise, …
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