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The view past our sliding glass doors is always beautiful, ever changing, and this time the cloud was the star. I’ve decided to continue with charcoal, PanPastel, and graphite for a while, on a good-sized (46″x28″) sheet of thick cotton paper that holds up well under the abuse of working and reworking, especially erasing.Update January… Continue reading Over Waties Island

The Annual Members’ Judged Show of Waccamaw Arts & Crafts Guild opened this evening at Seacoast Artists Gallery and will be up through October 29, 2021. One of my recent pieces, “January on the Cypress Swamp” (a wading ibis) is on exhibit. Acrylic on canvas 53″ x 35″ framed. (sold!)

Love the deep, velvety blackness I’m getting from PanPastel plus the old charcoal sticks I’ve had around since art school, worked in many layers on cotton paper. This is a moment with Richard on the nighttime beach near our condo, lit by a vehicle’s headlamps. 30″ x 45″ unframed, 37.5″ x 52″ framed. To be… Continue reading In the Headlights

Got up before 6 today to take a Waccamaw Osprey Boat Tour with members of the Carolina Nature Photographers Association. The pontoon boat wandered the Waccamaw River and up a creek or two in search of ospreys and their nesting chicks (there were quite a few). There’s nothing quite so comforting as focusing on nature… Continue reading Osprey

As the egrets were crisscrossing overhead last Monday, I would spy an occasional feather drifting down. This one landed near my nose

Richard and I went by Myrtle Beach Art Museum Friday morning to pick up my painting, “Feeding Time,” at the close of the show, and I was informed that it sold yesterday to a collector, a retired art professor. Delighted to know it’s found a happy home.