Around the Garden Saturday, April 14, 2018
Quince buds.
Doing
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 …
Around the Garden: March 25, 2018
Repotted Mojito Mint from The Berry Farm Forsythia bud New bed of tulips planted in the fall. Myrtle Holly berries Wild onion, I think Deer scat
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 …
Motorcycle Rental in Nice, France
Renting Motorcycles with Motor Bike Trip Driving in downtown Nice is crazy. The roadwork, the bus lanes, the unending intersections, the traffic! But head north out of the city, beyond the poor roads and bumper to …
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 …