Bodies On the Beach-10
Bodies On the Beach-10 My husband and I wake up early every morning. It has been nice to be out on the lanai, watching everyone wake up. One treat we see each day is a group from a canoe club down the...
View ArticleHawaiian Sunset
Hawaiian Sunset This pastel was done from a photograph I took from our lanai last November in Maui. I haven’t ever really done landscapes until recently. I really didn’t think I could draw one. But...
View ArticleHawaiian Clouds
Hawaiian Clouds This is another pastel I did for my pastel class. I’m really having a lot of fun exploring pastels and landscapes. This is the view from the lanai where we stayed in Maui last year....
View ArticleMaui Sky
Maui Sky Here is another pastel I did using Painter X3 on my computer. I just can’t seem to put down the pastel brushes. I think I love the sunsets so much because they are so colorful. Filed...
View ArticleTake Ten
Take 10 I have been in Maui for five weeks. It was heaven. While there, I took an ecourse from Tracy Verdugo. I’ll talk more about this wonderful class in a future post. It is an amazing...
View ArticleI’m so Excited
Pink Fish In 2012, through an odd series of “coincidences”, I took a painting class from Flora Bowley. A very good friend at that time, tricked me into signing up for Flora’s eclass. I was very sick...
View ArticleA Bird In Your Pocket
A Bird in Your Pocket I have had a very challenging year, health-wise. The fibromyalgia flared up around New Years Eve, and has kept me lying low many days. Last fall, while we were in Maui, I started...
View ArticleMaui Flowers
Maui Flowers Lately, all my paintings have been influenced by my trips to Maui. There is just so much color there. The flowers are so bright and beautiful. The water is a gorgeous blue and the dirt...
View ArticleFlower Frenzy
Flower Frenzy I started this painting like I start all my paintings. I make a few layers of marks with several colors. Then I start looking to find what appears to me in the painting. Lately, all...
View ArticleI Say Hello
I Say Hello This is a painting I recently finished. I started this painting in an app called Rebelle. I used inks and watercolors in Rebelle. Then I took the painting into Painter to see what I could...
View ArticleDreaming About Maui
Dreaming About Maui I just returned from a two-month trip to Maui. It’s like I’m a new woman. I have more energy than I’ve had in over 20 years. I have Lyme disease. It went undiagnosed for 18...
View ArticleThe Obvious Path
The Obvious Path This is a painting I did while we were in Maui during October and November of this year. I haven’t been painting very long, only since September of 2012. So, maybe what is difficult...
View ArticleGoing Round In Circles
Going Round In Circles I started this painting in an app called Rebelle. I used watercolors and inks and created lots of drips. Then I painted with a watercolor brush loaded with lots of paints and...
View ArticleGlorious Morning
Glorious Morning This is a painting I did while we were still in Maui. I was very influenced by the gorgeous flowers in Maui. Tropical flowers are so bright and have such beautiful shapes. I think of...
View ArticleRainy Day Dreams
Rainy Day Dreams I have to say that I am feeling so much better. Better than I have felt in 20 years or so. Lyme disease, which I have in addition to fibromyalgia, has more than just one germ that...
View ArticleAloha From Maui
Hibiscus Aloha means more than hello or goodbye. It’s a feeling, a way of being that exists on Hawaii. We are very blessed to have Hawaii as one of our states. I am very blessed to have now visited...
View ArticleShells From the Hurricane
In the 80’s some time I was in a hurricane while on Maui. It completely destroyed Kaui and we only had very high winds on Maui. The next morning the beach was covered thick with shells. What a find!...
View ArticleMaui Sunrise
My husband went hiking this morning and I got up early so I could see the sunrise. It was gorgeous. I’m go glad I bothered to get my rear end out of bed. We have been on Maui for a month and we go home...
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