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Are You Kidding? was the painting that could have had "wings" (see Garden Angel)   The title suggests a bit of gossip being bantered by these two ladies.  Which leaves the viewer wondering (hopefully the viewer will even care to wonder) what they are saying- most certainly it involves a relationship- women they know? men?  someone in trouble?  What do you thing they're discussing? ...

Garden angel -  well angels are not really my thing.   But Scott London, from London Square Gallery, Norfolk, on one occasion suggested I incorporate wings into one of my paintings- not this one. The one he saw eventually became two women conversing with wine glasses in their hands. Hardly an angelic scene.  This one started as a lone figure but she was bored and boring so she wound up in a garden- the wings seemed ...

These carnival dancers are loosely based on dancers I saw a long time ago at the Winnipeg Canada Folk Festival's Caribbean pavilion. There they had long dresses with more yellow and were inside a school gym. Artistic license ...

Ladies Dance is a totally made up painting. These ladies do not exist in a photo. They are conjured up as a result of my painting so many women. I can't tell you how many complete paintings lie under this one. But none of them suited me. (of course what usually happens is that i photo them and go back after a while and realize the original painting was actually the best one.Oh well .But ...

My husband's family has a farm in South Carolina and being an urban Connecticut Yankee I have enjoyed photographing and painting the rural South with its character and characters.  This man is a compilation of all the older guys I have seen. I used a different technique here- actually smudging the wet paint with my latex gloved covered fingers.  There would most likely not have been any red in his background but I seem to ...

Day Off started as a small image of a girl in black and white which you can see in a rectangle in the middle of the image.  As I looked at it I realized that the position of her hands was weird. She looked like she was about to grab something. So I decided that I would have her gripping the handlebars of a bicycle which you can see in the next image. This was ...

Bikers is another in an ongoing sports series. Several family members have cycled seriously and Luke and I have a tandem bike that we occasionally drag around the Yorktown battlefields. So this sport has been of interest. It has movement and color and even though the painting is tiny 8x10 I think it packs a good deal of excitement ...

Chinatown started as something else which is par for the course in my painting life. It started as another New Orleans street scene but I guess I must have added a sign with red in it that spoke more of memories of chinatowns in various cities. So if you will forgive my unedited use of  squiggles to represent signage and think more of an impression than the real life street you will have an idea ...

Bourbon Street Tango is a work that resulted from a trip to New Orleans in February.   I was walking in the French Quarter and happened upon a group of musicians and a dancing couple.  I joined the crowd to watch them perform for the next hour and bought their CD.   I play their CD when I want to paint something that has movement such as these dancers.  I actually dance while I am painting ...

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