Rough draft here...

Busy little pastel blooming on the kitchen counter at the moment. It seemed like a good idea when I began. Remembering motto from Finding ...

Verrrry interesting...

I journeyed down to Rohnert Park yesterday, that non-city that is really just a bedroom for the rest of the county and the City to the south...

Not my best time, no not at all.

Somehow I have gotten all off track. Well, I was sick. Then Boo was sick. Then I was sick again. I didn't go to the gym. I missed s...

Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

I hated that motto when I was a kid. Mom was talking about cleaning my room, of course, which, I guess, I never considered worth doing in t...

Weinie watercolor of the day...

Gee, class was a hoot today. I sat, tongue between my teeth, laboring away at this rather complicated Van Gogh homage, and listened to the ...

This is what happens when I can't sleep...

I get ideas in the night. This was not the one I had, but one has to start somewhere. I actually wanted to do red poppies, but have no pho...

Rain? Again?

Yes, we needed it. But rain poses a whole series of PROBLEMS when one has a dog or two. My little guys are free-ranging, going in and out ...

And the other one, messy and fun...

Okay, the blotch on the seventh tree was a mistake, but I like this painting anyway, because the colors are so vibrant and not usual or stag...

Thurday in watercolor class...

I find watercolors to be really picky and prissy, for the most part. But I do work hard to make them my own. Today I did four different pa...

What to do with a rainy day and a few pastels...

Thought I would try something entirely different. I mean, what use were those two semesters of figure drawing if I didn't do a figure o...

Sunday. Blah, blah, blah...

Sundays are my least favorite day. There's no mail to look forward to. Television sinks to its most inane (no Bones reruns). Once upo...

And here it is!

A perfect example of what one can do with absolutely no planning and very little attention. Aaaaarrrrggggh! Those shadows have to go, n...

And the next layer...

One of the valuable lessons I have learned so far about this nit-picky medium is to choose a direction, warm or cool, and continue aiming in...

You have to begin somewhere...

What a week! Boo is better. He got there all by himself. Four vets laid hands on him, he had xrays and bloodwork and a consultation with ...

Trying new things is good for my soul, right?

I am kind of timid about putting details in the background of my paintings. So I put this homely little figure in this environment. Had to...

Okay, maybe NOW it is done.

I remembered what my teacher said about value contrast and went back into this little rendering with an eye to lights and darks. Frankly, t...

Getting back to normal, well, as normal as it gets around here...

After our trip to the vet yesterday, I decided that it would be okay to leave the house for a moment or two, that Boo was not going to keel ...

This precious day...

We saw another vet today, not our regular guy who was booked solid, but a great gal they referred us to, and Boo's ailment is still a my...

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We are back from the vet. Yes, the very expensive emergency vet. They were very thorough, and it is now clear that this is not a acute pro...

The state of the Boo report...

Boo is sick. I think. Actually, at the moment, he doesn't look any different from this picture, when he was well. Whatever is happeni...

Saturday ablutions...

While I do believe that she who dies with a clean house has lived a wasted life, there are limits. So I swept up a whole bunch of dog hair...

One body, many selves...

Sometimes, I really envy Pickle. She knows just who she is, every moment of every day. Here she is, at my feet, as usual. She has usurped...

So much muchness...

I have been thinking a lot lately. Usually this just gets me into trouble, but this time, I am coming from the thinker's position, witn...