Holiday Card 2020
I usually start thinking of design ideas for my holiday cards in early September. This year something came to mind quickly, but after a few attempts I knew it wasn’t working. So I put the whole …
Creating
The articles in this category are things that I make.
Gift Tags from Old Greeting Cards
RECYCLING ART PROJECT There comes a time, at the end of every celebration, to breakdown the decorations. Everything paper gets thrown away or tossed in the recycling bin. The saddest part is throwing away piles of …
Inspiration
A good friend of mine has recently become obsessed with the annual winter spectacle of crows roosting by the thousands along the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie. Above is one of the many breath-taking photos she sent …
Artist’s Statement
About My Drawings Primarily self-taught as an artist, my drawings reflect my evolving interests and ideas – from the influence of broad disciplines like architecture and design, to specific historical periods like the Bauhaus and Art …
My First Snow Sculpture
I had a list of things I was hoping to accomplish today, but then Mother Nature dumped an entire art supply store in my backyard. Use it or lose it.
Final Art Project of 2017
Eleven days off work gave me lots of time to do fun things. Honestly, I spent most of it in kitchen and you can see that in the patterns that developed here. It was all …
Holiday Cards 2017
I usually start designing my holiday cards late summer/early fall. I’ve been preoccupied with other activities and decided to skip it this year. One of my preoccupations has been learning linocut. Then I thought, maybe I …
The view from my kitchen window
I spend a lot of time in the kitchen. The view out the window above the sink is over my neighbor’s backyard, across the side street, and into the parklike property of the medical center. …
Ice bowls (frozen votives) that look like glass
2017 2015 2014 At one time PInterest and Facebook were flooded with images and videos of bowling ball size ice balls. Fantastic patterns radiated from the center, and the colors were beautiful. The ice balls …
Metro-North: Grand Central to Poughkeepsie
Traveling by train from New York City to the Hudson Valley The pictures in this slideshow were taken Sunday, January 8, 2017 between 11:00am and 1:00pm on Metro-North’s Hudson Line. Snow had fallen the previous day so …
Handmade Holiday Cards
I start thinking about my holiday card around mid-summer. There are three stages to my process: design, engineering, production. By September I’m usually already experimenting with paper and other materials. (If I don’t have a final …