Our Elf

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James was born into our family in 2018 
and I had the honor of babysitting him
for 3 weeks. Give an artist too much time
​and they might just turn out a painting!

Seasonal Scarlet

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Cardinals can be quite shy and elusive. I was able to 
get this photograph of a bird in Cape Henlopen State
​Park but it needed some artistic enhancement.
Carving Out Some Fun
​I took this picture at a pumpkin festival in New York and really loved the look of the blue pumpkins. I added the ghost in the window just for fun.

Beware

For some reason I love pumpkins.  I think it's the color with it's boldness.  So this year I decided to paint some more of them.  Not Quite as goofy as my last ones, but quite fun just the same.

Boo

It has become a tradition to do a yearly painting for Halloween. This year’s picture is actually a combination of three different images which I combined to create “Boo!”

Cornfield Cousins

Part of the problem that I have with painting is my obsession with detail. This in turn can sometimes make a single painting take many months to do. In an effort to have a bit of fun, It was more whimsical than many that I typically do and was a much needed relief from months of concentration.

Dreaming of Christmas

On a tour of homes in downtown Lewes I came across this little cherub sitting on a shelf. He seemed to be contemplating Christmas and I thought he'd make a great card.

Christmas Tweets
Being self taught I never had the luxury of being educated to paint.  I always had to work at being a nurse.  So since my retirement I have decided to treat myself to one workshop a year.  This year I took a workshop with Tom Lynch.  His style is so different than mine and so is his palette.  I decided to use the colors that he introduced me to do this painting.

Holiday Gold

For Christmas this year I wanted to paint our Christmas card. During a meeting of the Delaware Watercolor Society we’d been given a demonstration of a “salt” technique with watercolor paint. I decided to try this for the background of this painting and felt that it gave it a nice texture which helped make the image of the bird “pop”.