Concerts On The Green, El Cajon, CA

Beautiful crepe myrtle trees, the yellow building, people enjoying the concert, all captured in this painting done at the promenade in El Cajon, CA. I had a lot of energy to do all that painting at the concert. It was fun, but I had no idea all of it would some day...

Jeannie O’Dell at Balboa Park

At last, I have a new painting partner that I love to go paint with on location. Jeanie! Our first time out we went to Balboa Park and found some subject to paint. Jeanne uses acrylics and I do watercolor. As seen in this picture below,  the scene I was looking at...

Birdhouse with a Birdhouse

When I go to paint at Summers Past Farm I love to walk through the different gardens and  find birdhouses that are different. This particular birdhouse in this painting has its very own birdhouse! How darling! A few years after I painted it, it started weathering and...

Splashes of Joy!

In November 2010 I was hanging up my art show at the San Carlos library . There were books in one area of the exhibit room that were going to be sold at the next book sale, one of them caught my eye, it was by Barbara Johnson who writes very humorous books. I needed...

Trader Joe’s Truffles

I had surgery again on my back Dec. 15, 2010 (the first one was on July 7, 2010). It was near Christmas time and my husband hates to shop and never knows what to get me! Somehow he remembered me talking about my favorite dark chocolate truffles and went out of his way...