The Village Gallery of Arts 2014 Art Challenge Show starts Tuesday, May 6th. I totally redid my four 6x6 pieces for the show. I took flora...

Here's another exercise from Nita Leland's book- The New Creative Artist. We outlined a shape and then drew the flowers.  We positi...

Jo Reimer ( see her One A Day blog ) introduced me to the modern color palette.  I love these colors- how they go together, mix without mak...

This summer, I took an abstract painting workshop with Jane Davies at the Pacific NW Art School .  First we worked on monochromatic pieces...

Mary Beth Shaw taught my second ArtFest workshop entitled "Fear No Paint". For the first layers, we used a variety of mixed medi...

I'm taking Flora Bowley's online e-course called "Bloom True". She's one of my favorite painters and lives here in P...

Last Spring at ArtFest, I created a Deck of Roses in a class with Orly Avineri. A friend asked me how I was going to use them. I made n...

Each year, the Portland Audubon Society sponsors a Wild Arts Festival . Local artists create and donate 6x6 inch canvases with a bird theme...

At ArtFest last spring, I took a workshop from Orly Avineri called Roots and Shoots. The two collaged paintings that I created can be seen...

Last week, I started an online class with Katie Kendrick entitled "Layered Impressions". Many of her techniques are based on her...

SITKA ART AND ECOLOGY CENTER north of Lincoln City on the Oregon coast sits in a beautiful setting between the Salmon River estuary and Cas...