I broke out my green paints this week and I couldn’t be happier with the way Emerald City turned out. Sometimes I get attached to paintings. This one and Cleansing Cry have been two that are hard to let go of for …

I probably shouldn’t refer to this project as painting of the week anymore, because the consistency is really lacking. But it’s something I so look forward to when I do have spare moments throughout the week. Last week, while all of …

  Update: High quality giclee prints, in four different sizes, of this painting are now available here. I did this entire painting with Faye wrapped around me and Greta next to me eating too many sour patch kids and asking …

I know it is still March, but it’s the first day of Spring and I am exhaling all the winter heaviness. This painting is inspired by our grass that is still sleeping and mostly brown, but all the snow has …

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, these pregnancy hormones have me swinging from mood to mood with hardly any notice. It seems like I experience absolute joy, anger, frustration, heart-breaking sadness, peace–everything–every day! Since my paintings are inspired by my …

Despite the dusty conditions surrounding me, I managed to lock myself in a room (keep Greta busy) and painted until I was swept away to another place. I almost took a break this week, because things are so crazy right …

Up to this point, I’ve always shot the weekly paintings in our green reading room, but this week’s looked so perfect against the backdrop of the Hale Navy walls in the hall bath. The addition of gold this week helped …