Welcome to 2014!

Happy New Year 2014

As I started this painting, I had in mind 3 qualities to cultivate this coming year: Confidence, Discipline and Patience...the latter of which was running thin as the painting was becoming an ugly mess. So I washed everything out with a big brush, scraped into the wet paint with the end of a plastic fork, and let the notion of branches growing out of a place of Trust, emerge.
Finding that zone, where I move quickly without much thought, keeping my attention on the tip of the brush, pays off with a unique painting that surprises even me, as if I were just a conduit.

That's why it's so fun!  Thanks for looking.

In the Darkness

As the sun set yesterday at 4:57pm with an incredible display of wispy clouds and swaths of intense colors, I entered my studio and painted my heart and emotion in the deep colors of the season.

When I arrived at the hall, Kathleen's altar was white and wispy, with no color, as if the darkness drained it all away. And yet may of the dancers were wearing the colors in the painting, and it all came together beautifully, yet again.