My week

 i like to stop in on weekends at this neighborhood greenhouse strawberry plants for 50 cents each  . . . . . . . . . . my latest mixed medi...

Marie Watt's studio

One of my very favorite things to do is to visit the studio of an artist, even more so than going to a museum.  It's the place where ide...

Artists I like: Julia Pott

Any day now I should be getting in the mail Julia Pott 's Breathe (left picture).  When I first saw it in her Etsy shop , I knew I had t...

Last day of Etsy art sale

Last chance to save 25 - 40% on original art in my Etsy shop .   

Aalto utopia in Portland's backyard

When I was in college, I went on a field trip to the Mount Angel Abbey Library , which is about 30 miles south of Portland.  That trip was m...

New drawing, "Deer at the lake"

I just finished this pastel and ink drawing yesterday called Deer at the lake .  Another family from the animal kingdom is represented in my...

Artists I Like: Clare Bowers

Yes, I do like diamond clusters and cuddly animals and mountains in rainbow colors.  So when I came across Clare Bowers' art on Etsy, it...

Art sale in my Etsy shop!

It's time to clear off my shelves to make room for new items, so I'm running my first Etsy sale!  I like a great sale, and I like to...

Quilting a duvet cover amongst other things

  I have always loved Marimekko 's Unessa fabric and have wanted it as a duvet cover.  Over the last few months, however, I have been co...

Show and Tell, a new series

Today is Show and Tell in my daughter's classroom.  I loved Show and Tell in school, so I figured I would create a new series on the blo...

Stumped

Here is a closeup of the 30 in. x 40 in. oil painting I have been working on (first mentioned in this post ). In February, I decided to pain...

The famous through the eyes of Imogen Cunningham

Magnolia Blossom (1925), Two Callas (1925) I have always been an admirer of Imogen Cunningham's botanical photography.  Yesterday I di...

How to get your art in boutiques

My shop [image sources from left: Lucky Magazine ,  Boone Rodriguez , and Hadley Hutton ]   Many of you may be at a place where you are read...

Giving new life to vintage furniture

Yup, I could wake up every day to dandelions dancing around my head. This Dandelion Field Bed from Chair Couture goes to show that reuphols...

Creating prints of my art

Playing around with my new (used) printer.  I created some business cards on recycled paper. When I first started selling my art online this...

Portland art shop and artists helping local schools

I went bridge jumping once, and all I got from it was a sore bum.  My adrenaline rush doesn't come from extreme sports, it comes from sh...

The enchanted world of artist Ann Wood

Brooklyn artist Ann Wood has an amazing gift of turning scraps of fabric, paper, and wire into endearing and timeless works of art.  Her bl...