Win some, and then there was this...

Don't know what I was thinking, but here was this girl in this fantastic environment, so I diddled up this doodle. Well, I can always t...

Laden with guilt, but ever so much more comfortable here.

Probably you don't stress over an ordinary trip to the store. I do. Which one, is always the first question. Costco for dog food, 8 ...

And now, for the very last time, I hope...

I took my first efforts in pastels in to my class this Thursday, because I really value the opinion of this teacher, marvelous artist that s...

How prosaic can one get?

Back to the basics. No longer searching for unusual or particularly artful images. Let's do what every teenager does all the time, go ...

Thursdays with Cezanne...

Our assignment today was to wash color over a drawing, so I whipped out my little Cezanne book and copied this wonderful little painting. I...

And here is the WSF...

That's work-so-far. Actually, all my work fits into that category. Never sure is they are finished, okay just the way they are at this...

The WIP...

...that's short for work-in-progress, of course. Actually I straightened up my work board to get it ready for its close-up. Messy, tha...

The times, they are a'changing.

I changed the angel picture after looking in the step-by-step art book, which I should have done in the beginning. I just get all excited a...

Silly me...

Two years ago, I had a slow-leaking tire, so I pulled into McLea's, who had saved me more than once before, and3 hours and $400 later, I...

The downside of the "aha" moment...

And how can there be a downside to an absolute revelation? Easy. It could take you a week of fretting and mulling, and yes, even on occasi...

And from dog, we go to god...

...and when you think about it, that's not a big leap. This was my third drawing yesterday, a copy of Michelangelo's Almighty passi...

As usual, I didn't get that memo...

I am of the opinion that when God was handing out the manual, I was hiding behind the door. And it continues to be my challenge to stay up ...

That's me all over...

Ever since our painting teacher assigned self-portraits, I have been fascinated by that challenge (and the first one was hung in that semest...

If at first you don't succeed, beat it to death with a stick.

Okay, this is the trouble with being self-taught. Your teacher gets strange ideas. Probably this was a bit much to bite off in the early d...

How to spruce up a little bitty bathroom...

... put a really BIG painting on the wall. Here is my little hommage to my wrinkle cream, hairspray, and white cork-topped jar, a pastel I ...

Glass birds, and eggs, of course...

Once upon a time, when the cowwoman was a budding teen, a pseudo-friend gave me a glass bird for Christmas. She was the daughter of a frien...

Please pass the hubris...

Every time I sit down and something recognizable comes out of my hand and mind onto the support, be it canvas or watercolor paper or just a ...

Decisions, decisions...

I spent a happy hour online looking at what other artists are doing with pastels. Answer: everything. The SAME artist produces a tightly ...

What you can do with an Anthropologie catalog and a few minutes in art class...

Thursday morning, our erstwhile teacher wanted us to work BIG, so she gave us these enormous pieces of newsprint and let us have at it. I k...

Well, the whole world is fuzzy, anyway.

The cowwoman went to the Dr. yesterday. Yes, there was a little infection, and then there are some tests pending, too. Certainly, there ar...

And now for something completely different...

After my last post, on that frabjous day when I was feeling so very fit and hearty, I woke up with vertigo. Now feeling like I am lugging 5...

Home is the cowwoman, home from the gym...

Ah, there is nothing so righteous as getting my buns to the gym. I bounced in, and I bounced out. Don't know why that happens. Someda...

New, old, whatever...

This is where my art began. I painted this about ten years ago, back in the house at the edge of the world, where my easel sat in the kitch...

This little light of mine...

Okay, mark your calendar. Today, the cowwoman is happy. Feeling fine. Feeling wealthy and young. On the inside of course. This flies in...

Happy epiphany...

Otherwise known as the twelfth day of Christmas. Hallelujah! It is officially over, all those smarmy emotional movies done up in red bows,...

Simply sublime day, so far...

Have I mentioned how much I love shopping? And two of my favorite spots are Dick Blick and Anthropoligie, which just happen to be right aro...

More images from the studio...

I really don't feel so badly now...

One enterprising author has done a book on the studios of current popular artists, so I went to Amazon.com, one of my favorite browsing deni...

That was the year that was...

Strange year, last one. Besides a lot of life on life's terms, stuff that just happened and needed to be endured or dealt with, there w...

Every day, in every way...

... I am getting better and better. That was an affirmation I uttered over and over again when I was early in my recovery. It kept me aime...