art journal 365: #155

art journal 365: #125

art journal 365: #89

art journal 365: #84

commission: thoughts returned to him

This is my third work for one of my lovely clients.  I posted image progressions for both her first and second commissioned works.  I loved making this piece.  Conceptually, this work is based on the realities versus the idealized versions of romantic love, both its amazing beauty and the potential of heartbreak.  The color palette...

art journal 365: no. 47

commission: compiled by your sweet mother

This work meant a lot to me, primarily because I knew how much it meant to the woman who commissioned it.  My client had a collection of letters and well-loved family recipes, collected though decades.  These recipe cards were beautiful--they were hand-written cursive, or typewritten, stained from years of use, discolored as the papers aged....

art journal 365: no. 10

published: give the world your best/peace project 2012

For the third consecutive year (and third year of the project) one of my art submissions has been selected as one of the 150 works on display during a traveling exhibition.  My work was also included in the beautiful 2012 Peace Project book.  A 12 in x 12 in panel reproduction of this work, Give...