I-125 at Mission Gorge Rd.

That sounds kind of painterly! Today is a cold, windy and rainy day and I’m reminded of this little painting that I did many Februaries ago. I was coming home, off of the freeway and there before me was this scene that I took some mental notes of and as soon as...

Coffee Shop Show on Jamacha Road

I love this coffee shop where I have 10 of my collages hanging. It was a fun day when I scheduled for friends to come meet with me last Saturday. I plan to have a second event on March 24th from 1 until 4 p.m. The owner of the coffee shop likes my kind of friends! My...

La Jolla Shores Umbrellas

I wasn’t there to get my cash prize at the reception, but was glad to get a phone call from the art association president telling me I won 1st. Place!!! My acrylic painting, “Twenty Umbrellas” on a canvas measuring 12″x 48″ was liked by...

The Coffee Grounds

Everything fit so great! I arrived at the coffee shop this afternoon, with 10 collages to fit to the wall that the manager allowed me to use for my show. I was not sure how it would all fit when I got there. There were some nails already in the wall, but not exactly...

Stampington Apprentice Magazine Article

This is my first time to be published in a magazine and I’m so excited. It is available today at B&N. I plan to be there on Sunday afternoon to autograph for my friends, in the afternoon at 2 until 4. I am on pages 23 through 27, and again on pages 129...

Foothills Art Assoc. Demo

Foothills Art Association has invited me to do a demonstration for them at the next meeting, March 1st. This time I am doing a brush pen demo, one of the ways I love to paint without paint! I use a TomBow black brush pen and water, on watercolor paper. I love to do...

Hearts Afloat

I saw a painting I liked, it was at a doctor’s office, and while I was in the waiting room I scribbled down some notes of how it was formatted . I didn’t get around to trying to do a painting like it for a couple of years,and the notes I took didn’t...

Lost Key

In my studio there are things that my granddaughters can play with. One of their favorites is an overnight suitcase that I have had since junior high school,  and it has my initials on it, DKB. The girls love to pretend they are going on a trip and I gave them a key...

Pismo Beach House

A lot of my cards with images of Summers Past Farm are for sale in their gift-shop barn, and are very popular. To have other subjects for my cards, I have plans to make a set of cards, 10 to a box, of the houses I have painted through the years.  I’ve painted...
Grumbacher Watercolor Palette

Grumbacher Watercolor Palette

When I painted the house upon the hill in 1958, I know that it was because my high school art teacher gave me a set like this  Grumbacher watercolor palette. Of course back then the palette was made out of tin instead of plastic. I loved the colors silver and gold in...