Seeing with an Artist’s Eye

by | Dec 31, 2009 | inspiration

Don’t ask me how it is done, it just has to be the eye that God made for me to see like this!  I look back at some of my old paintings and wonder how I did it, and am just speechless!  I don’t even remember where I took this photo, but it had to be some...

Other Colors

by | Dec 31, 2009 | history

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, dull environment. Of course, after studying with Henry...

Absolute Originals

by | Dec 31, 2009 | history

One night I was at my kitchen sink, doing the dishes, watching the evening sky and taking note on how the sky was so beautiful.  The next morning I was at my painting table putting down that sky in watercolors, then when it was dry, I made up a typical swamp scene...

The Old Studebaker Truck

by | Dec 23, 2009 | history

When my husband was a kid, he used to play on this old truck in Imperial Valley, a desert area of southern California. I thought this would be a good subject for a painting so I did a watercolor of it, and it was accepted in a national exhibition in Houston TX in...

Bayou Camp

by | Dec 19, 2009 | history

Now that I have been painting for a long time, I look back at some of my works and wondered how in the world did I do what I did! I came across these two paintings with photos of the actual scene that I painted from and am amazed how I did so well with my...