If you’ve read this blog for awhile, you’ll know that I have a day job in addition to my art business, and the you know, small task of raising two human beings. These three jobs keep me pretty busy, require me to stay up late most nights, lead to coffee drinking, and often make me [...]

Filed under: Art, Cats, Painting on Yupo, Portraits, Random, Ron Weasley on November 13th, 2010 | 4 Comments »

As you may know, my studio cat Ron Weasley is often the bane of my existence. He is well known for climbing around where he shouldn’t be (my desk) and getting his nose into places he oughtn’t (my paint water.) Every time I walk away from my desk I have to go through a ritual [...]

Filed under: Cats, In the studio, Mad Mom, Not painting, Ron Weasley on November 9th, 2010 | 8 Comments »

Completed: November 8, 2010 Soundtrack: Andre Segovia Beverage: Diet Ginger Ale

Filed under: Art, Dogs, Painting on Yupo, Pet Portraits, Watercolor on November 9th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Whose idea was daylight savings time, anyway? That’s a rhetorical question; I realize I could Google the answer, but I’m saying Whose Idea Was This? It is 4:44 p.m. and dusk. My studio is now cave-like after 3 p.m. We see so little of the sun here in Oregon, and this is just an inconvenient [...]

Filed under: Art, Cats, Painting on Yupo, Pet Portraits, Watercolor on November 7th, 2010 | No Comments »

I am sitting here at a Saturday market, peddling my wares. I’m bored. There’s not much traffic, and even less interest in art when people are here to buy produce and crochet. Markets are not my usual modus operandi. They require time away from my studio and my kids, and my paints. I have to be [...]

Filed under: Not painting, Random on November 6th, 2010 | No Comments »