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Everyone has an art -- an expression of self that adds flavor to the world.   For some, it's data or oration or something athletic. (I had a friend whose art was cleaning and organizing.   I miss her!) I come from an amazing family -- musicians, athletes, contractors, teachers.   There was never any doubt that my art is the visual stuff we normally think of as, well, art.   My family has a saying: my sister (now a professional musician) got the ear, I got the eye.   After decades behind the lens of a camera, I decided I wanted to throw my own painting party for my...more
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Vision 2020 and Beyond

December 27th, 2019

We are in the final days of this decade. As a new teacher in the early 1990s, we put together a 2020 plan — what would our schools be like in about 25-30 years? And here we are. So much has changed, but not in the ways we had imagined. Politics... 

Adventures in Art

March 27th, 2019

As my day job took over my life, I found I had little time and about as much desire to paint. In the spring of 2017, A friend convinced me to attend one of those group painting events, and through that experience I remembered how much my soul needed... 

Evolution in My Painting

April 3rd, 2015

We live in an amazing age. Mixed media used to mean the application of two substances to a surface. But I'm finding it's a lot of fun taking the digital image of one of my abstract oil paintings and playing with it, mostly with duplication and refl... 

Things I Am Learning Part 1

March 7th, 2015

My favorite new palette: baking parchment on a cookie sheet. (It helps if there's something to actually stick the paper to the sheet.). I haven't tried a disposable palette, but I imagine this is what they're like. More drying space: use the Ch... 

Let It Out

March 4th, 2015

"Indian Summer" by Dorothy Parker (caution if you are offended by mild language) In youth, it was a way I had To do my best to please, And change, with every passing lad, To suit his theories. But now I know the things I know, And do the t...