Cardinal

This original 6"x6" oil painting on gesso panel is available, unframed, for $100 here.

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!

female cardinal

This original 6"x6" oil painting on ⅛" gesso panel is available, unframed, for $100 here.

holiday best

This handsome fellow is all dressed in his holiday best...sending you wishes for a fabulous holiday! I hope you are taking time to slow down and enjoy the season. I must say I'm not. Not yet anyway. It's crazy that everyone says you should slow down and savor the moments at the crazy busiest time of the year. Life needs to slow down. It just has to...I think this guy is saying just that. Slow down...

This original 6"x6" oil painting on ⅛" gesso panel is available, unframed, for $95 here.

rise & shine

This morning I was reading brain pickings, a blog that I always enjoy.

This one is called "The Third Self: Mary Oliver on Time, Concentration, the Arist's Task, and the Central Commitment of the Creative Life."

She identifies three primary selves that she inhabits, and that inhabit her, as they do all of us: the childhood self, which we spend our lives trying to weave into the continuity of our personal identity (“The child I was,” she writes, “is with me in the present hour. It will be with me in the grave.”); the social self, “fettered to a thousand notions of obligation”; and a third self, a sort of otherworldly awareness.  

The first two selves, she argues, inhabit the ordinary world and are present in all people; the third is of a different order and comes most easily alive in artists—it is where the wellspring of creative energy resides.

It's really about the quiet concentration time we all need to be creative. Something we have less and less of in this busy world. Do you have this same struggle with finding the time for concentration and creativity?
This original 6"x6" oil painting is available, unframed, for $95 here.

wait, what?

This cute guy really looks like he's saying "wait, what?" My daughter says that to me all the time. Maybe I'm always in too much of a hurry? Okay, so I know I am always in a hurry...something that I am forever trying to change about myself...how do we slow down life? I would love to know the secret... This original oil painting is available, unframed for $85. Click to Bid

cardinal

This original 6"x6" oil painting is available, unframed for $85.

Click to Bid