Keeping Watch
The last piece completed in 2016… “Keeping Watch” on a 15 x 30 inch stretched canvas with Citra Solv on National Geographic pages with paint and stencils added. Welcome to a new year of creating!
Goals 2017
I love this time of year… reflecting on the blessings and even the failures of the past year, making plans for the new year. It is a time of hope and promise and is exciting for me. I always more … Continued
365 Faces Challenge
If you have followed me in 2016, you know that I made an attempt to do 365 faces throughout the year. Well, I didn’t quite make it… in part because I made a poor choice of journal in which to … Continued
Christmas Portrait
Hope all of you had a very merry Christmas! One of my handmade Christmas presents this year was an attempt at portrait painting. From a favorite photo of two of my granddaughters when they were quite young, I painted these … Continued
In My Junk Journal
Nothing better on a cold wintery day than snuggling up with my new junk journal for a little journaling. This is how the page started out: It is a pieced together and stitched assortment of a watercolor sketch out of … Continued
Boho Buffalo
This buffalo has layers of color, stencils, drips, splatters and doodles going on with some reverse painting in the mix to boot! Was a very fun piece to play around with as I try to get the buffalo worked … Continued
In Sight of the Keeper
“In Sight of the Keeper is on a 24 x 36 inch stretched canvas with 1 1/2 inch deep sides. It features my representation of Wichita’s landmark sculpture, “The Keeper of the Plains”. The colorful “patches” in the interior of the … Continued
In the Barnyard
Another mixed media version of the nativity. This one is on an 11 x 14 cradled wood panel and is available for the month of December at Bluebird Books in Hutchinson.