Trade offs

When the ice storm hit a few months ago, I was very very sad to lose most of the pecan trees my late father had planted and grafted, including the best producer.
But as I puttered around pulling weeds yesterday I noticed a trade off. As those trees had grown, parts of the garden became shadier [...]

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New blog address

As you can see, I have transferred my blog to WordPress. It may take a little while for it to look the way I want, but for now it is ok. I think it will be more flexible and allow me to be more active.

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Verticality

The weekend flew by, I don’t have my new web page published yet, but here are a couple of the paintings I’ll be adding. The green one was in my show at the Tulsa Artists Coalition last March, and the red one “Rising” is new. These photos were just snapped where the paintings are [...]

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Back from the mountain

I’m back after a four day workshop at the Fall Art Institutes at Quartz Mountain. While I was there I realized it was my eleventh year to go to the mountain for one reason or another, starting as a writing student in 1979 – the summer of my senior year in high school. I was [...]

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Finished

A few days ago I posted the unfinished version of this painting, and over the long weekend we had, I finally have it just where I like it. It has been a very agreeable painting to work with. Some pictures seem to work against me until they finally let me get them where I want [...]

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New Painting

Here is my latest painting, it is 30″ x 30″ on a cradled panel. It was photographed before being hung, and I will have a better photo of it later. It was commissioned by a family for their mother’s birthday gift to go in her newly redecorated living room. I developed the design after talking [...]

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Back to Work

Summer went fast, but fall commitments are suddenly picking up.
The “Suite Oklahoma II” printmaking portfolio is complete and has been displayed at ArtsSpace Ponca City, and opens today at Milagros print studio in OKC. It is also available for viewing by appointment at the Lachenmeyer Art Center in Cushing. It is a portfolio of work [...]

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Slipping away

Summer is really slipping away, between art camp and traveling. Art camp was a great success. The first group of kids was perhaps my most engaged and enthusiastic ever. The second week, well, I really wondered about them at first. Seated in front of paper and piles of crayons, all twelve of them just sat [...]

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testing

While taking a break from clearing things out of the family home, I’ve taken a couple of entertaining “personality tests”. The first was on HGTV.com, a “Style” test – I came out “Eccentric with a touch of sweet”, and then my “Personal DNA” report was that I am a “Respectful Creator”.
both tests are fun [...]

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Women in Art

Thanks to Judy Decker on the artsednet list for directing me to this wonderful thing.

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