cardinal

I’m over the moon excited to have my artwork included in a fun new shop opening soon in downtown Lancaster, PA. It will be called My Aunt Debbie and will be located at 336 N. Queen Street. It will be her studio and a specialty shop featuring adventurous handiwork, talented local makers (that’s me!), and cheerful heirloom textiles. It’s sure to be a fun destination filled with treasures. Oh, and this painting will be on display there along with a few other paintings of mine. Hope you can stop in if you are in the area!

You can follow My Aunt Debbie on Facebook, at myauntdebbie.com or instagram!

fun bunch

I am always looking for painting inspiration, either in my travels, in what friends post on instagram or Facebook, or when I get the opportunity to look through the photos on their phones (especially great when the friend is a photographer!). This is from my friend Lori's photos on her phone taken at a wonderful outdoor market, where she has a honey stand on Sunday mornings. I mostly paint from photos, just because it is so very time efficient...since I only paint for an hour or so at 5 or 6 am. Tomorrow I hope to try painting at a Plein Air event here in Lancaster. I am so looking forward to it, but I've never done it before...I think I'm up for the challenge. If what I end up with isn't awful, I will share it.

wine labels

A very dear friend, Lori Stahl, is a photographer, beekeeper, winemaker, just to name a few of the amazing things she does...anyway, she is creating a book about winemaking (how fun is that!?!) So she asked me to create a few paintings to use in examples of wine labels for her book. Here are photos of my blackberry painting, me in action, a nice shot of my paint tray and examples of wine labels that I designed using my painting. I will let you know when her book gets published! Doesn't a glass of blackberry wine sound great right now? Blackberries 6"x6" $80 unframed.