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We’ve had so many floating rain clouds and fast moving storms this month, and I love it! The skies have been incredible and to see the warm summer rain hit the water and pavement is so soothing. This particular rain cloud missed us, but I sure had fun admiring it from the shore.

It’s so fun to see how my brother and I can look at the same thing and see it in such a different light.  This week my we decided to paint a Kettle Cove view for our sibling set.  It doesn’t matter how many times we head down Kettle Cove Road, getting that view of […]

A sweet friend gave us a beautiful bouquet of black-eyed susans from the farmers’ market last week and I just couldn’t resist painting these little beauties. They are just soooo happy! They are painted on small 4×4 inch wood panels with 1 inch deep edges. I loved painting on this surface because it felt so […]

My brother Michael is an amazing oil painter and my inspiration for diving into oil painting over 25 years ago. 🙂 We live near one another and enjoy talking about art and painting, but we haven’t collaborated in ages. After much chit chat, we decided it would be fun to play together and paint from […]

I did a little daily painting of the fishing shacks not that long ago and I kept thinking that it’d be fun to do a few gouache paintings of them, so here you go. I’m having fun playing in gouache–it’s a different kind of meditative creative process for me. The paintings are done on cold […]

I’m not much of a gardener, but I sure do appreciate the efforts and magic of others … and mother nature. I stumbled upon this garden in Hallowell, Maine, once upon a time, and it was such a feast for the eyes that I knew at some point I would paint it. So many colors, […]

I’ve been meaning to do something with this poppies linoleum block I carved last month and I thought this week’s tiny tuesday was the perfect opportunity to make it happen. I just let myself play with color, paper, printing and painting too, and it was really fun! I tried all kinds of things … there […]

Here’s a little oil painting inspired by an evening walk on the Ship Harbor Trail on Mount Desert Island at Acadia. The light was perfect and the low tide landscape exquisite. Such a peaceful and gorgeous walk through the trees and along the pink granite shore. More moments like this, please! 🙂

I went up to Acadia National Park for a few days last week with a friend and just soaked up the beauty and the trails all over Mount Desert Island. I squeezed in a lot of outdoor time in a short amount of time … from a sunset hike to an early morning paddle, a […]

I had such a good time in the peony garden at Gilsland Farm a couple of weeks ago that I just couldn’t resist some tiny peony paintings. Why not keep peonies blooming all year long. They are pure magic and smell sooooooo good. Ooooo, and so luscious in paint! These little paintings were done on […]