Stone Soup Workshop in Taos

Just finished four day workshop in Taos with LavenderSage Art Retreat folks.  Still on vacation in New Mexico.  Brought an easel intending to paint plein air but weather is too hot during the day and mosquitos after that.  Early morning flies by when you're having sumptuous breakfasts!

Yoga/Crow

pages in progress for book

Monoprint for book cover (and my big toe upper left)

Indian on Museum Hill, Santa Fe

Next time - a bigger piece of paper!

Desert Haiku

Oceans of sagebrush
floating on smooth swells of sand
like resting seabirds

(this will be a painting some day!)

Eyes of God

I painted this many years ago after a trip to Arizona, or was it New Mexico?  It hangs in my counseling office and people often ask why the children have no faces.  I tell them they are the 'eyes of God' and no one questions further.  I came to the conclusion that they WERE the eyes of God after I tried to paint faces on them several times without success.  Artists get to do things like that.  I'm leaving tomorrow for another Lavender Sage Art Retreat, in Taos this time.  Looking forward to exploring around Albuquerque and Santa Fe again - The Turquoise Trail.   Last time I took photos.  This time, who knows?

Paper Sunset Through The Porthole

Butterfly - Paper 53

New APP! Paper 53

Look what I painted with my new iPad app Paper 53.  It's nifty for sketching, painting, whatever.  The app is free but the 'Essentials Kit' is seven bucks - well worth it.  Puts the pages into sketchbook form you can flip through, email, send to FB...very merry fun!

I was going to call this The Green Flash, but my friend said it looks like there's a fetus in the sun.  Now I'm calling it The Second Coming (of the Sun, of course!)

Spanish Landing

from the parking lot

Pieces of Home

O B Wannabe's

Went sketching in OB - beautiful May day - in front of the Ocean Beach Hotel.  Kids on the grass in wetsuits were practicing their surfing moves balancing on little rolled up thingees invented for the purpose, I'm sure.  Then there was the guy with thirty hula hoops who practiced for three hours straight.  Then he did pushups against a building.  Didn't catch that in ink.

Ocean Beach Hotel

O B Wannabe's

Flowers for Mother

Sketchorama, Italian Style

Last week in Little Italy I drew fifteen minute ink sketches, moving from location to location.  Today I got around to  giving them color life.  Fun!

Bouganvillia Gate Sunday

Driving around sketching from the steering wheel:

Watercolor sketch

A Fountain

If I Had a Pretend Booth at Artwalk...

Acrylic (finger painted- no brush)

Graphite

Monoprint

Acrylic

Blue Pen

Acrylic

Gouache

monoprint

Acrylic

Acrylic on found board

Watercolor

Acrylic (finger painting - no brush)

Alcazar Gardens

a beautiful day in the park

Weekend Workshop - Watercolor

Rich Hawk hawkstudio.com/ was the artist/teacher.  These paintings were done from black and white tracings, so the subject matter is not mine, only the painting.  Rich works with shapes and values "embellished with calligraphy".  The workshop was fun and gave me new ideas while strengthening

old ones. 

bedside manners

needs a tattoo!

Little Scene

from a parking lot at Liberty Station

Balboa Park Sketchette

April Being Cruel