Experimenting to find out how little I need to change to dramatically improve the useage of my home now that it is just for me. I considered...

by Diane   Thursday, August 20, After our party, a son-in-law took this selfie.  Fantasies of a family and friends' reunion with some of...

by Diane           First, before calling the Hospice nurse about this weekend's vital signs and medications, I watch the bees in the wil...

 by Diane     SATURDAY, AUGUST 8 The more the merrier! Even masked and distanced the party will be a precious memory painting. The party...

By Diane A few days with minimal mini-art respites, I am easily diverted to other easier to do activities like cutting back the dahlia...

I can't imagine how painful it was to Fisherman Hubby to make the decision to sign on to Hospice on Monday. Saturday evening after a...

Way back in Bellingham in the late 1970's or early 80's Fisherman Hubby and I self published a manual for Steelhead fishing on a b...

This painting might be close to finished.  It could be an illustration in Fisherman's Hubby's revised book about fishing that we d...

Friday, July 17. Big breath of relief, in the mail are both a long term care insurance claim and doctor's  questionnaire for first vi...

Sunday, July 12, This painting, a second of the same subject was like a commission. Trying to please the reciitant is easier if they h...

EARLY MORNING CATCH AT RIVER BEND ON THE SILETZ RIVER    REFLECTIONS SEEN AT SPACE #10 COYOTE ROCK  RV AND MARINA SILETZ RIVER...

It is so sweet and makes me feel so wonderful t hat my grandchildren really want my art work. What stands out to me this week is the ne...

Another week past inwhich I did little active painting. But as always I kept looking both at nature and my paintings.      My swallow...

Thursday: Very sweet yet?  About 14 months ago, our back yard view of fields of grass reminded me of Vincent VanGogh's crows brush wor...

Enjoying  feeling empowered seeing this painting gradually develop adding a brush stroke at each mini-mini-art respite Just a we...

                                                  Our 55th wedding Anniversary.     This morning Fisherman Hubby felt a little down.  B...

6" square A more perfect day for painting outside could not have been asked for. Last Friday after not painting last week, all the ...

Painting is in incubation as I observe both an imaginary grid from earth to sky with a third dimention grid  from foreground to the vani...

I love the comments from a plein air painter from Hawaii and another one from my co-author, Rain.  The painting of these swallows looked l...

 Monday, May 25, first thing in the morning, I painted for a few minutes. Finishing a painting takes the longest. For days  many times a day...