Art Reception Sunday August 24, 1-4pm!

Please join me this coming Sunday, Aug 24 at Finn Hill Winery in Woodinville for a fabulous fun art reception! There will be refreshments and wine tasting, and I'll be giving away one of my new 2015 Art Calendars every hour! I sure hope you'll join us!

Under Construction!

The Studio Under Construction

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. We're adding a bedroom and have had to have sprinklers installed in our entire house as part of the City's requirements! Things have been quite distracting! My studio has looked like this for weeks now.

Things are being put back together slowly, and I'm hoping I'll be back in the studio painting in another week or so. Whew!

New Monthly Newsletter!

 In the meantime, I've taken the opportunity to put a proper monthly newsletter together. I'll continue to post my new paintings for you on the blog as I have always done, but my monthly events are probably better communicated through the newsletter.

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Victor's Coffee House in Redmond

I am very honored to be back for my third solo show at Victor's Coffee House in Redmond, WA! The show features twelve of my original watercolors. All are available for purchase.

Victor's is my favorite neighborhood coffee shop. It's at 7993 Gilman Street in Redmond, WA, just down the road from my house. If you stop in, give me a call and I'll meet you for a coffee!

My paintings will be on display until the end of May.

Magnolias

"Magnolia Blossom Opening #1"  8" x 8"  $225

"Magnolia Blossom Opening #1"  8" x 8"  $225

Every spring, I enjoy the magnolia blooms so very much! Each delicate white flower is a work of art!

The blossoms begin closed and upright, like white candle flames. As the warm spring sun touches them, they open so gracefully, like dancers unfolding their arms.

I wish I could capture every blossom in watercolor before they fade away!

To purchase one of these paintings,
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Celebrating Tulips

"Neverending Tulips"  18" x 24"  SOLD 

It's tulip time here in the Northwest! The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, just north of Seattle, is really something wonderful! During the month of April, the tulip farms are just breathtaking! Everywhere you look is a painting!

Some people enjoy the open tulip fields and the long beautiful rows of solid colors. My favorite place is the display gardens at Roozengaarde. There are three and a half acres of never-ending tulips in those gardens and supposedly 250,000 bulbs! The tulips drift in and out of the trees and are planted in color combinations that mix and mingle like paint strokes in a painting.

I just had to paint this scene from Roozengaarde. I love the tulips weaving in and out of the light and flowing through the landscape like an endless river. The combination of festive colors reminds me of confetti - like spring throwing its own party to celebrate life renewed!

Enjoy the tulips!

tulips detail

Honey Bees & Mead

Announcing a new show of my watercolors at Sky River Mead! 

  

Sky River Mead is one of the Woodinville Washington Wineries. They're located just south of the round-a-bouts on Redmond-Woodinville Road and are open Fridays and Saturdays 1:00-6:00, Sundays noon-4:00.

Twelve of my original watercolors are on display and available at Sky River Mead from now through mid-May. The winery also has a number of unframed fine art prints of my artwork for sale. When you visit Sky River Mead, be sure and enter to win a free print of my one of my cherry blossom watercolors!

 

In honor of my art exhibit and in celebration of Sky River's delicious honey wines, I've just finished a honey bee painting that is included in the new show!

"How the Honey Bee Sees the World"  10" x 14"  SOLD

There will be an Artist's Reception at Sky River Mead on Thursday, April 3 from 4:00-8:00pm. Please join me for nibbles and mead tasting! I hope to see you there!

For more information about Sky River Mead, please visit: http://www.skyriverbrewing.com/

Farm Fresh Strawberries

"Red & Ripe"  18" x 18" $850 Framed

There is nothing like the taste of real fresh strawberries, picked red and ripe and sweet! They hardly resemble the grocery store variety. And there's that lovely fresh strawberry smell....I just can't wait for things to begin growing again and the fresh berries to arrive at the local farmer's markets! 

This larger-than-life painting was great fun, though it took me wayyyy longer than I expected. Each strawberry is a simple shape but contains so much intricate detail, with the rows of seeds and juicy highlights. I used quite a lot of masking fluid to preserve the seeds and the highlights, but then each tiny shape had to be softened and refined once the masking was removed. I enjoyed mixing all those rich reds and pushing the intensity of the color.

This painting will be on display beginning Friday, March 21 at Sky River Mead in Woodinville, Washington as part of an exhibit of my watercolors. Please join me for the art show reception at Sky River Mead on Thursday, April 3 from 4-8pm! 

"Red and Ripe" detail