I’ve been getting more inquiries about commissions lately, so my husband has been bugging me about getting better information on the website.  Now I know why I have been putting off improving my site: I’m no computer programmer and I suck at Photoshop.  I know I don’t have information about my process on there yet, [...]

Well, I lost a lot of sleep last night after thinking that I had accidentally deleted my blog. Technology is not intuitive for me, but people say that it’s something to use to your advantage and it seems like most people who do well these days are somewhat internet savvy.  So I created this blog, [...]

A friend of mine, Rebecca, is posing for me right now.  Here’s a quick point-and-shoot image (apologies for the fish-eyed-ness of the image).  I’m on my second pass right now. She’s in Europe, so the painting is on hiatus for the moment.

This is a two-hour study I did overlooking Spiderwoman Canyon in Chinle on the Navajo Nation.  I would have spent more time there but it was really cold and windy that afternoon and I didn’t set myself up in a very good place unfortunately (I was in the shade in about an hour and a [...]

I’m currently on vacation visiting my in-laws in Chinle, Arizona, in the Navajo Nation.  We had a couple of days at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, about 24 hours total, and I spent about 7-8 hours doing this study at the Studio Lookout overlooking the Canyon just near the Bright Angel Pass.  The [...]

This book was recommended to me by my awesome friend and fellow artist Daniel Colon. Apparently it does a good job tracing through the years artists’ reconceptualization and reappropriation of previous artists’ decisions in the genre of portraiture.  Available on amazon.com.   Wilton, Andrew. The Swagger Portrait: Grand Manner Portraiture in Britain from Van Dyck to [...]