Commissioned Landscape: Kayakers on Indigo Lake, oil on canvas, 20″ x 16″ Just before sunset the neighbor’s yellow kayak slid through the water away from their dock next door to us, heading toward the far side of the lake. I sat on my dock sipping a glass of wine looking out at [...]
Optical illusions have always fascinated me, especially those involving the illusion of 3 dimensions in a 2D space. I adored my brown Bakelite View-Master. I sat for hours looking at immersive nature scenes and cartoons brought to life. My favorite was of Disney’s Sleeping Beauty. Flora, Fauna, [...]
Fishing for Ideas Where do ideas come from? How does a realist artist translate the world around her into works of art? I thought you might find it interesting to see a tool I used for coming up with an idea for a painting, so here I will describe how I did that for a recent landscape. The Nudge [...]