Hello! I’m happy to take a few moments from home-moving tasks to catch up with you. First, the holiday auction to support Palomacy Pigeon & Dove Adoptions begins today, Friday, December 6, and continues through Friday, December 13. You can now visit the Pigeon on a Shelf auction site to view and bid on lots...Continue Reading
Because of the disruption at home, I've stayed in seven different places in the past month. Drawing is the thread I've followed from place to place.Continue Reading
I put the finishing touches on Rumble’s portrait this week. I felt more joyful and free creating this work than anything I’ve yet done. Tiny, intuitive sparks bypassed my brain and reached my hand throughout the process, keeping stuckness at bay. I know it won’t always be this way, and I’m deeply grateful when I...Continue Reading
Last Friday, I attended the opening reception for “Are We There Yet?” at Artist Within—A Cedars Gallery in downtown San Anselmo. I’m delighted to have three small collages in the show, which brings Cedars and Ross Valley artists together to celebrate summer vacation:Cedars and community artists have vacation on their minds! This show is all...Continue Reading
I just finished my first big commission, and as you can see, she’s not a pigeon. Adorable and very round, Mary Jane is a fox squirrel currently in the care of Yggdrasil Urban Wildlife Rescue. When Mary Jane’s rehabber, Janet, asked if I could make a portrait of a beloved rescue squirrel, I was honored....Continue Reading
Alfred is an eight-year-old king pigeon hen—yes, Alfred is very much a girl—who I long admired from afar. She came to Palomacy with two other baby pigeons, all of them found hiding under a bush in a park. For several years, Alfred and her former husbird, Pirate, were a bit Instagram-famous. I was not the...Continue Reading
It’s been a couple of months since I checked in here. The pace of my artmaking has slowed way down as I work on building my drawing skills. I like how nature journaling teacher John Muir Laws refers to intensive drawing practice as pencil miles. Recently, my pencils (and crayons) have visited everything from wonky...Continue Reading
I’ve decided not to have a newsletter. Having a blog plus a newsletter is too many things in a world of too many things. A business person would probably tell me to keep the newsletter and ditch the blog because newsletters give you metrics. But I love blogs. I started blogging in 2007; it’s a...Continue Reading
The Fairfax Art Walk was Friday night. I had no idea what to expect and was nervous while setting up my table in front of SOON, but then so many people showed up that there was no time for nerves. The town became a big, happy party, and I talked to people for four hours...Continue Reading
Yesterday, I had a donut-induced meltdown — from drawing them, not eating them. These were the directions for our in-class drawing exercises: Simplify the background, foreground, and subject to three values: dark, middle, and light. Use the white of the paper for the light value, a 2H pencil for the mid-tone, and a 6B pencil...Continue Reading
