Wishing everyone a happy holiday. I’m grateful to all of you who follow my art and a giant thank you to all. 🤗 #watercolor #painting #art #Christmas #ornaments #pigsintutus #grateful

Wishing everyone a happy holiday. I’m grateful to all of you who follow my art and a giant thank you to all. 🤗

Mood It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree. Quote by Alexandre Dumas #watercolorpainting #granulation #art #watercolour #landscape #nature #artistonbluesky

One of my favorite places to take my dog to play in the water. (She’s off in the bushes searching for a ball! 😂) Manitou Creek 11” x 14” #watercolorpainting #art #watercolour #landscape #creek #nature #Colorado #artistonbluesky

Today, while buying some mat board, a woman came in with an ORIGINAL Morten Solberg watercolor of an owl! I gasped when I saw it! An original! With stray paint splatter on it! The detail in this owl, incredible. She was looking to sell it, so I offered her $50. Unfortunately she declined. Darn! 😂

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Found an old pencil sketch I did ages ago and finally painting it. 🎨 “Dude, where’s my horse?” 11” x 14” #watercolor #painting #cowboy #boots #artober #artistonbluesky

We the people.

I’m having too much fun painting with these granulating watercolors! Plus, with all the chaos and evil happening in our country and around the world, it calms my soul and gives me a few hours of joy. #watercolorpainting #granulation #art #lake #artistonbluesky

A new watercolor painting. 😊 “Expanse” #granulation #watercolor #mountains #winter #wideopenspaces #art #blueskyartist

I'm excited to give the demonstration tonight for the Pikes Peak Watercolor Society. (Which I'm a member of. 😊) I'll be demonstrating how to achieve great granulation with watercolors. I'll be painting something similar to this. #watercolorpainting #granulation

I forgot to attach the final painting in my first post! 🤦‍♀️🤪

“River Crossing” 11” x 14” #watercolor #painting #granulation #river #nature #landscapepainting #art #artistonbluesky

Memories of Maui #watercolor #painting #art #granulation #blackbeach

My heart goes out, again, to those parents who’s children were either lost or shot. 😢 Why is it all these deranged 🐓💩 shooters always go after innocent, defenseless children?

Via @artistlorayne.bsky.social FB: they’re painting the US side black! Is that to keep us in? Idiots🤦‍♀️ Mexico is painting beautiful murals on their side❤️There goes another $500M of our taxes wasted on a needless thing. Think of all the US artists the govt could hire to paint murals on our side👀

Finally done! “The Last Tomatoes “ 11” x 14” My nod of respect and appreciation to all the immigrants who worked so hard to pick our fresh fruits and vegetables, and are now being disappeared or deported. 😢 #watercolor #painting #farmersmarket #tomatoes #immigrants #artistonbluesky #art

I wasn’t very happy with all the (rotten) tomatoes in my my painting, so I started over. 😊🍅 #watercolor #painting #farmersmarket #tomatoes

I love checking something off my To-Do list, even if it took me two years to do it! 🤪😂 ✅ Repaint ✅ Reseal ✅ Restring ✅ Rehang #recycle #reuse #repurpose 🤗 #yardart

I just noticed how tall this hollyhock is in my garden! It’s got to be at least 12 feet tall! #hollyhock #flowers #gardening

This painting is taking me forever! Who knew painting tomatoes was so hard! I’m feeling intimidated! Any other artists out there that have struggled with painting a subject? #art #watercolor #tomatoes

WIP. The Mexican blanket is done, except for the shadows. I went a bit cross eyed painting all those stripes! 😂 #watercolor #art #WIP

I’ve started a new painting. Can you guess what what will be in the baskets? 😊 #WIP #watercolor

A brave tiny hummingbird dive bombing a young Cooper’s Hawk! Don’t mess with mamma birds or bears! #hummingbirds #Coppershawk

There is a Cooper’s Hawks nest a block from my home. The babies fledged 3-4 days ago. Today while walking my dog and picking up her business, I looked up and all 3 babies were perched on a car watching us! 😍 #CoopersHawk #fledglings #birdsofprey

If anyone lives or will be in the Denver area next week, come checkout the #ColoradoWatercolorSociety show’s opening! I’d love to meet you! 😃 #artopening #watercolorshow #colorado

I painted this scene from a dream I had, three nights in a row! Is it the storm before the calm? I sure hope so. “Purple Rain” #watercolor #dream

My painting is all matted and framed, and ready to be delivered to the #coloradowatercolor society exhibition! #watercolor #painting

Look who turned six years old today! To celebrate she got to romp in a creek with her friend Mia. But, Quinn being Quinn and a ballaholic, she found not one but FOUR tennis balls that were either in the bushes or hidden in creek debris! 🎾 🤦‍♀️ I love my happy-go-lucky ballaholic dog! 🥰 #Labradors

This is the only #BigBeautiful I want to pass! “On the Road to Aspen” #watercolor #painting #granulation #landscape #nature

OMG! I’m in shock! I just got accepted into my first major #watercolor exhibition! The Colorado Watercolor Societies “Finding Beauty in Unexpected Places.” I’m jumping for joy too! 😃💃🏻 #CWS

And, of course, the old, old, standby - Aeschylus: “In war, truth is the first casualty.”

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

I can finally share the surprise Father’s Day gift I painted! And yes, those trees are that tall! #watercolor #painting #golf #talltrees

I’m ready for the #NoKings Peaceful Protest tomorrow! Who else is going? #Resist

May was a busy month working in my gardens. They are flourishing from all the rain we had, and so are the weeds! I’ve had little time to paint, so I’m sharing a pic my photos highlighted today. I started out painting seashells in 2018 and doing watercolor batiks. #watercolors #batiks

I’m so excited to have 6 pieces of my art in a busy local gallery just one block from my home! 🤗

#underneath the ocean. #blueskyartshow #watercolor #painting

“Drifts” 11” x 14” I tried a new granulating #watercolor paint yesterday. It’s hard to see and photograph it, but the color has tiny little mineral crystals that shimmer when the light is just right. #snow #imagination #granulation #artistonbluesky #texture #PrimaTek #DanielSmith

Quinn thinks I can’t see her squishing the pretty pink flowers. But I can.

Every #MemorialDayWeekend there’s a street festival one block from my home with vendors, food, and bands. I’m sitting on my back deck tonight, sipping a cocktail after a long day of gardening, listening to a pretty awesome #TomPetty tribute band right now! ❤️

It seems like everyone paints a sail boat in a setting like this. I wanted to add something unexpected. “Jump for Joy” #watercolor #painting #granulation #seascape #dolphins

My longtime friend passed away last week. I wanted to paint something to remember him. I had no idea what I was going to paint, I just let the paint and colors flow, and this emerged. I think I’ll title it “Grief: When you can’t see the forest through the tears.” #grief #watercolorpainting

Penstemons #BlueskyArtShow #texture #watercolor #painting #granulation #flowers #garden

What’s up with the #USPS? I mailed my commission painting Priority Mail (3 day delivery) on April 30th. It’s been “in transit” since May 1st! It’s supposed to be delivered today, 17 days later! I know this country is going backwards, but is the #USPS using a horse and buggy to deliver mail now? 🤷‍♀️😡

Nothing screams warmer weather has finally arrived than shaving your legs after 6 months of winter! Now my tub is clogged. 🤦‍♀️

A #watercolor #painting inspired by a trip to #Yellowstone National Park a few years ago. “Steampunk” #landscape #art #NationalPark #watercolour

I just watched a Northern Flicker Woodpecker checking herself out in my car side mirror! 🤗 She must want to look good for her man!

Another mountain painting! The last two were 8” x10” painting.This one is 11” x 14”. I titled it “Dwarfed.” 😊🗻 #watercolor #painting #granulation #watercolour #art #mountains #landscape

I felt like painting some mountains on this cold and rainy day. #watercolor #painting #granulation #watercolour #art #mountains #landscape