Category Archives: random stuff

It is fun to look at the clouds and see if you can see anything that represents an image, like maybe an animal, a face, or whatever. Some of my early art lessons were of this kind of game, to … Continue reading →

Way back when I was in Marie Wordell’s watercolor class in the late 1980′s, we had a lesson about Gyotaku. It has to do with putting paint on a real fish and then stamping that onto paper to prove how … Continue reading →

One of my favorite methods that I learned in art school was this particular way of putting down lots of  oil paint from a limited palette, using jabbing like strokes, let it dry and then find something in that paint … Continue reading →

I don’t remember where I took this photo of an old weathered church with a grave yard in the back area, but I just knew that one of my methods of using oil paints would do great for the effect … Continue reading →

I knew how colorful California was, but when I moved to the swamp land I thought it was the ugliest part of the whole United States!  What I found out is that I could use other colors than the actual drab, … Continue reading →

While I lived in LA. I was at a watercolor workshop and the demonstrator had the best easel for watercolors. He even had a picture of it in his book which I don’t remember the name of it. I didn’t … Continue reading →

A couple of years ago I found this enchanting house out on a cliff in Pismo Beach area and was glad I had my camera and could get some shots of it. Later, as I thought about getting a painting … Continue reading →

I met my husband in college in 1962. One of the funny things about him was that he could wiggle the top of his ears!  He taught me  how to do it and it was fun! What a coincidence,  I … Continue reading →