Sunday December 21st marks the Winter Solstice, the first official day of Winter in the Northern Hemisphere and the longest night of the year. A time to reflect, recharge, and renew. I have always, in the past, been a warm … Continued
Sometimes I finish an image, I upload the photos here, and I end up postponing hitting the “publish” button because I feel like I should have something really interesting and insightful to say about the piece before I post it. … Continued
This ended up being really different that what I normally do, and I like that. The funny thing is, that looking at it now, I’m not even 100% sure how I ended up here. All I know is that I … Continued
Remember when I said that if I didn’t make a conscious effort everything I created would end up in shades of blue and purple? This is what I was talking about. Actually, someone saw my other hummingbird image on my … Continued
Want to hear something funny? I’m not a big fan of yellow. Or orange. I can take them in small doses, but you’ll be damn sure that if you open my closet and rifle through every single article of clothing … Continued
This acrylic owl painting was quite a while in the making. I created a different version of it in Photoshop (original here) about a year ago, and I thought it would be fun to re-create in paint. After all, acrylics … Continued
Well, my birthday is next Monday, and my gift from the universe turns out to be a root canal. As sarcastic as that sounds, it really does feel like a gift, because yesterday I was knocked on my ass by … Continued
Eeeeep. It’s November. Not even early November. Two weeks until Thanksgiving November. It’s been a while, I know. I don’t know what happened. Well, actually I do. Life happened. Three of the four people living under this roof having birthdays, … Continued
Being a mom to a toddler is pretty demanding. You spend a lot of time trying to repair the path of destruction they carve through your home. Even a well behaved toddler, the second your back is turned, will unleash … Continued
You probably know about my crazy love for making insanely detailed kaleidoscope art. This one through, is insane even by my standards. There were several times that it locked up my Mac for over 20 minutes. I got up, grabbed … Continued
I was lucky enough to get most of the afternoon to myself today, so after a quick caffeine fuel-up, a trip to the store to exchange a shirt that I accidentally bought in two sizes (who does that?), and a … Continued