Dirty Brushes & Dirty Diapers: Finding Balance in Painting & Parenting

As promised, I will continue answering some of the questions I received a few weeks ago when I posted about my upcoming demo at the Portrait Society of America. Since some of you will not be attending the conference, I thought I would address the questions here on my blog and social media.  Today’s question is from @suzizef. She asked, “How do you juggle painting and motherhood?”  I have written extensively about this, especially in  2014  and  2015  when I was a brand new mom. If you’d like you can search my blog archives for some of those posts. However, since my daughter is now almost four years old and we have another little one due in August, our family dynamic is changing and I can answer this question from a slightly different perspective than what I had four years ago.  "Motherhood&… Read more »

Dirty Brushes & Dirty Diapers: Finding Balance in Painting & Parenting

Emerging from the Fog - Painting Trip to Telluride

Last week our little family went on a spur-of-the-moment trip to Telluride. It was no small thing, packing up and making the 6-hour drive, but we had already lived in Colorado for a month and still hadn’t been into the mountains! And those mountains… well, they were the closest I’ve ever seen to Switzerland in the U.S. They were breathtaking. It was just what I needed to help spur me back into painting, after taking over a month off for our move. I couldn't wait to do some plein air painting, even though I was really out of practice. I am most happy with the two paintings I did from our hotel balcony (below). I caught up with some Texas artist friends,  Carol Devereaux and Suzie Baker , who were painting in the Telluride plein air event that week, and I made some new friends, too. Arkans… Read more »

Emerging from the Fog - Painting Trip to Telluride