Last year sometime, I was approached by the awesome blogger Amanda at Kevin and Amanda, who makes fonts from people’s handwriting. (How does she DO that?!) She noted that my awesome designer friend Nikki had used one of her fonts on my new website design and would I like to have a font made from [...]

Filed under: Art, Beautiful Things, Random on May 13th, 2011 | No Comments »

Last night, as I was driving my tax return to the post office (at 10:30 p.m.) I drove around for an extra 30 minutes trying to find a good place from which to photograph the full moon.
Two mornings last week, I turned off the route to work and drove farther out into the country, just [...]

Filed under: Beautiful Things, Not painting, Random on April 19th, 2011 | No Comments »

I have a confession to make. Right here, right now.
It may completely change everything you ever thought you knew about me.
It may change the way you feel about me in the future.
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I don’t have a cell phone.
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How is this possible, you say!
It’s 2011, you say!
The fact is, my last cell phone was a hot pink [...]

Filed under: Mad Mom, Random on April 1st, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Several weeks ago I was painting for a client and it just wasn’t turning out the way I wanted. This happens every now and then. I mean, it’s natural to like how some paintings turned out more than others but THIS ONE. JUST. WASN’T. WORKING.
On any level.
Granted, it was in a category of subject that [...]

Filed under: Art, Beautiful Things, Botanicals, Good Advice, In the studio, Painting on Yupo, Random, Watercolor on March 31st, 2011 | No Comments »

The kids and I made a list of all the things we want to accomplish over Spring Break, and it looks like I’m already setting them up for disappointment. It’s Day 3 and we’ve only marked one thing off the list. I’ve done a lot of painting and they’ve done a lot of going over [...]

Filed under: Art, Cats, Celebrities, Dogs, Kickstarter, Mad Mom, Not painting, Painting on Yupo, Pet Portraits, Random, Watercolor on March 22nd, 2011 | No Comments »