I haven't blogged in over a year. I have lost at least half of the past year to health issues, the latest of which was a broken forearm on July 29 in a freak accident ... in my house, of all places. In the absence of awareness I tripped, fell forward, and fractured the ulna and radial bones of the left forearm immediately above my wrist. I'm the sort of person who goes full steam ahead in several directions at once. For the past eight years, I have been managing three small businesses. I lost my focus for an instant.  I am now [...]

My watercolor class will resume meeting at 2:00-4:00 pm for the first four Thursdays in June 2024. I teach small group classes with a maximum of five (5) students. Two spaces are filled leaving three (3) available spaces in the June class. If you want to learn more about watercolor painting, this is [...]

The title seems appropriate although not a literal description of this watercolor painting. Years ago I met a gifted East Texas artist in an online forum, and we became friends eventually meeting in person. Mollie Jones happened to have the same name as my aunt Mollie Jones, and even the spelling of Mollie was the same. I have enjoyed many visits with Mollie over [...]

“Have you ever felt like you were a little bit different? Like you had something unique to offer the world if you could just get people to see it? Then you know exactly how it felt to be me.” – Flint Lockwood, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs [...]

Typically in spring and summer I teach watercolor classes to small groups of four people at Spring Cottage Gallery in Old Town Spring, Texas. I start by painting a demonstration piece to illustrate method and techniques. This particular piece was painted from an actual still life set up on a table in the Gallery. Although the sunflowers were silk [...]

Five Little Piggies watercolor on 300# d’Arches wc paper   Memories play a large part of subjects I choose to paint, such as colorful cows and pigs painted in a somewhat whimsical fashion yet also representational in form. I hope to bring you a smile when you most need it. This watercolor is the most recent of the Pigtails series I have painted. Each is different from the other in medium, color, perspective, or positioning of the pigs.    I grew up on a farm in East Texas during the 50s and 60s and paint memories from those days, as well as portraits of adults, children, [...]