Moving On, 6 x 6, SOLD . Texas skies can be so dramatic. Sometimes the clouds appear to be on tracks as they race through the sky. And they ...

The Place in Between, 6 x 6, SOLD We've had some great cloudy skies that have actually ushered in some rain for our dry ground! I loved...

Hovering, 6 x 6, SOLD The opening reception for my show was a wonderfully fun night!! Lots of great friends came, a few pieces sold and I...

Blue Skies (smilin' at me), 6 x 8 . Last Saturday I attempted to paint out with our Plein Air Austin group. It was a beautiful day and ...

Rocky Outcropping, 36 x 24, (reworked - original was posted on 10/5 ) Morning Harvest, 24 x 36 (reworked - orginal was posted on 10/15 )...

Morning Harvest, 24 x 36 This is an enlargement of my last post - a scene from one of our local organic farms. One thing I loved about this...

Johnson's Backyard Garden, 9 x 12 This month one of our brilliant Plein Air Austin members, Kate Merriman , came up with the idea of pa...

Poolhouse Morning, 12 x 12 . I am very pleased to share that this painting was juried into the American Women Artists 2009 National Show. T...

Rocky Outcropping, 36 x 24 Rocky Outcropping (original study), 8 x 6 This jagged wall of rock provided such an interesting contrast to the ...

Ocean Dunes, 18 x 18 This is my last studio piece painted from my Long Island plein air studies... for now anyway. Being there this summer ...

Morning Vapors, 18 x 18 . Here again, I worked from my small plein air study to paint a larger painting in the studio. Revisiting my field p...

Dissolving to Mist, 18 x 18 This foggy peninsula, coming and going from sight in the mist, reminded me of the Brigadoon legend. Remember th...

Silent Fog, 18 x 18 So you thought I was done with all that fog? Nope! After doing the small color studies, I returned to my plein air piec...

Tree & Sky Studies, 6 x 8 each . In Scott Christensen's half day workshop, we were encouraged to go out and do as many "start...

Distant Ridges, 6 x 8 Rocky Outcropping (workshop study), 8 x 6 I painted these two studies in a daylong workshop with Skip Whitcomb at ...

Mountain Road Study 1, 12 x 9 using Diazonine Purple, Thalo Green and Cadmium Orange When I last posted, I was in Colorado Springs at the W...

Foggy Treetops, 7 x 5 This is the last of four color studies in which I took two colors, mixed them for a variety of muted neutrals, a...

Foggy Dunes, 7 x 5, SOLD This is my third study in finding color-based neutrals. For this piece I used combinations of indigo and yellow plu...

Foggy Field, 7 x 5 . This is the second of four small "color studies" I did to experiment with muted, foggy tones. As exp...

Foggy Road, 5 x 7 Fog... love it. My next four posts will be some small fog "color" studies (done in my studio). I know tha...

Morning Vapors (study), 9 x 12 Old Town Road, Southampton . This is the last of my Long Island plein air paintings. I'm always sad when...

Dissolving to Mist (study), 12 x 12 Mecox Bay, Southampton More fog - I had great fun with this particular weather pattern! Beginning thi...

Silent Fog (study), 12 x 12 Fowler Road Beach Access, Southampton Because of Hurricane Bill, the east coast was completely socked in with f...

Beach Dunes at Daybreak (study), 12 x 12 Flying Point Road beach head, Southampton A new day. I was up early to catch the early light and d...

. Cutting Through, 12 x 12 Off Cobb Road, Southampton . My second painting on Long Island gave me huge problems (the light, so beautiful -...

Islands in the Bay, 9 x 12 Warner Islands, Shinnecock Bay, under the Ponquogue Bridge I just returned from a great week of painting on Long...

Vine of Bougainvillea, 8 x 6 . I am still in New York, but headed home on Sunday. It's been a great time and I'm excited to share t...

Meandering, 30 x 40 . This painting is from last week - another large piece from my Georgia Low Country series. I just can't get enough ...

Golden Eve, 24 x 48 diptych (24 x 24 each) After doing the small study for this, I decided to stick with my original instincts for color and...

Hyde Park Bridge, 12 x 9 On Saturday morning Plein Air Austin met to paint and several of us were captivated by this quaint, little bridge...