Acrylic Painting

As I continue my life’s journey I look forward to painting, learning new skills, trying
new techniques and not just thinking out of the box, but maybe painting the box
and embellishing it in an altering way…

Acrylic Paintings

I love it when someone is flipping through my watercolors or canvases (like they’re shopping). It always interests me which ones they stop at. Some of my paintings aren’t signed, I either didn’t think they were done or I wasn’t satisfied with them (could be a number of reasons as I am sure you may well know especially if you “do art”) I have had people go crazy over a piece that to me was not all the great, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If a painting moves someone, sparks an emotion or memory or any kind of response that only art can, I know that I have achieved one objective.

Acrylic Painting and Fluid Acrylic Painting

One of the greatest things about art is that it’s “all good.” There’s no right or wrong. Someone may not care for your style, but that doesn’t make it bad art. It’s a personal artistic expression.

Artist Trading Cards

A fairly new outlet in which I have been expressing my creativity in the last few years has been an obsession with ATCs. These little “works of art” have been a wonderful outlet because you can work on them anywhere, anytime and in between making dinner and switching laundry. I now have the extreme pleasure of admiring other’s ATC artwork from all over the world. I love to trade.

Acrylic Painting

I feel that every thing I have done, and learned, and read, and studied is all leading up to my best painting that I have yet to do. No matter what classes I take, books I read, galleries I visit, I always feel that I am gathering more information and skills that I can use or will use on my next or future projects.

Acrylic Painting

Now that our sons are out on their own and we have more space, as we have redone our home, we have designed several workspaces throughout the house where we can paint and work on projects. We have worked diligently to turn our home into a gallery with our own work. Unfortunately, we are running out of wall space.

Oil Painting

My husband is an artist, painting with oils, and is an excellent photographer.

We love to travel and now have and continue to build a large photo reference library.

Acrylic Painting

I have taken numerous
college classes, including
painting, drawing, graphic
design, history, but do not
as yet have a degree. I
have attended classes and
workshops, to numerous to
count, of all sorts. I have a
vast art library in my home
and have access to two
fabulous libraries; one in
the city I live in and one near
by, both have an extensive
collection of books, tapes
and reference materials.

Altered Art

It was just a matter of time that I starting making all

sorts of altered art, art dolls and collaborating with other artists. I take my art supplies everywhere I go. I will not leave the house, especially

if I am going to be gone for more than 24 hours, without taking my watercolors and supplies, drawing materials, etc… I wouldn’t think of it!

Acrylic Painting

I love painting what I am looking at outdoors; my husband has documented this with photos. Sometimes this is a challenge but well worth the effort. In addition to painting with acrylics, I paint with watercolor and have just recently started painting with oils again after over thirty years.

Acrylic Paintings

When the boys got older and I began having more time, I got right back into my art. Mostly painting with acrylics. But it was when my cousin Marie, also an artist, came to Michigan (she has been living in Florida forever now) and we spent 14 days together up north painting (I always wanted to do something like this), that is when I really, and I mean really, started painting and painting and painting.

Oil Painting

While I had children and was a stay at home wife and mother, my artwork got put on the back burner. I always managed to do a little bit here and there. Maybe I was expressing my fervor in another way, the decorating, gardens, etc…I have to tell you—my sons and I made a lot of “stuff” and painted together.

4ft x 7ft Acrylic Painting

I took 5 art classes in high school in 4 years; I was already passionate about my work. A few ink drawings were stolen, a back handed complement I suppose. My father had his eye on one piece that was taken and was very disappointed.

Acrylic Painting

In middle school a

nun accused me of

cheating on a tissue

paper rooster, she

did not think I did it

myself. It was pretty

good. I loved working

on that project; I still

love roosters.

Acrylic Painting

I remember being good

at drawing and I loved to

color even when I was very

young. I remember that

before I was 9-years old

my father asked me to help

him paint the living room, I

painted the trim and the

closet. I liked it!

Oil Painting

My husband says I’m prolific. Hmmmmmmm. If “prolific” means that I am drawing, painting, making something, thinking of making something, thinking of painting, reading about painting, looking at paintings; studying light and shadows and shapes and color and studying objects while I’m thinking how I would paint them, then, yes –I suppose that I could agree with my husband and say, “I’m kind of prolific.”

Acrylic Painting

I live with my husband in Michigan, near Ann Arbor. I collect miniature chairs, love to garden, decorate, hang out with close friends, I’m particularly fond of being outdoors and I think God’s greatest invention is water. Water is nice to look at, listen to, be in, smell and certainly taste. I love all of these things and many more, but there is one thing that I am passionate about, and that is art.