teaching art

Dear Reader, It has been many, many days and months since my last confession, I mean blog. To be precise it has been two hundred and fifty-six days. On the surface my blogging was always about my art, but with

This past weekend I had the pleasure of leading this wonderful group of 11 women in creating their collage spirit guides and guardian angels. To start I lead them in a short meditation to find 3 words to guide their

For my long-time followers, you know birds pop up in my work often. They are most definitely my muses. I love to observe them, to witness each species characteristics and culture, their distinct forms, figure, flight pattern and personality traits.

A several weeks ago I showed you the first art quilt in a series about endangered species of Sonoma County; that piece highlighted the plight of Myrtle's Silverspot Butterfly. This week I finished the second in my series featuring the

  Those of you who follow me know that I've got a million ideas and time for about 10 at a time. Some times my ideas are bigger than me and I don't always reach out to make the connections I