This is the second week of my Studying Under the Masters class…and Picasso is our teacher this week! I love his portraits from the early

I started a new online class last week, called Studying Under the Masters, Part 2, with Jeanne Oliver and five other teachers. They will be

It is the last hours of September 2014…soon to be a new month! Let me introduce… the last painting of my 30 in 30 days

I finished my goal for the month…I have 30 completed paintings…and one on the easel waiting to be finished. It feels good to reach it,

I started this series of flowers earlier this year…inspired by Matisse and his love of color. I keep revisiting this style, because they are so much

Sometimes a painting comes together so very quickly…and other times, it is layer upon layer upon layer, until I am satisfied with it. THIS painting,

I have to say, that painting rocks is a first for me. I have always admired painters who could paint them, but I have never

This is the last of the three small landscapes paintings of Sweden. I enjoyed painting these so much, I may try one or two more

Yes, I am still (virtually) in Sweden. That is the fun part of painting with The Virtual Paintout Blog…I can “armchair travel”, or more specifically,

While I am not really on a trip this month, my heart, and even my easel, have been in Sweden…thanks to The Virtual Paintout Blog

I am a painter…but foremost, I am a student of painters. I learn from the artists who have come before me, and the artists that

I needed a day to relax and not paint from a photo reference. I needed a day of color, and imagination. That is how this