The Making of a Painting
Some of you may be familiar with my "daily doodles". Each morning I try to whip up some sort of drawing in pen and ink, pencil, charcoal or sometimes with a little pastel color in there. The idea is that I do something spontaneous. It's turned into a sort of...
When Several Worlds Come Together
Sometimes all my worlds sort of collide and it’s wonderful.
Experimenting and Learning
This week’s painting was a complete experiment.
In the bleak mid winter
Winter is an interesting season here in Vermont. The weather changes so quickly until it doesn't. We had a solid ten days of excruciating cold and then we had 60 degrees and rain. My horse, Kate, boards for the winter at a nearby farm where there is an indoor arena so...
A chilly start to 2018!
As I sit and write today the chickadees are nibbling at my feeder, the furnace is shutting off now and then and there's a sense of "softening" out there. The last two weeks have been brutal. Each day seemed to get colder than the one before it. My guys in the barn...
Traditions and Serenity
Christmas. So much to do. Lists are piling up faster than they're shrinking, and then I can't even find them. But in the midst of all this turmoil, I relish the serenity. What? How can that happen? Every night when I walk back over from the barn and admire the candles...
Paintings come from walks with my pups in the snow!
As I write this, the snow is coming down pretty hard, and has been since I got up this morning. It's finally looking like December! On Saturday, we got our first taste of snow. Overnight 4 or 5 inches fell and the sun came out on Sunday morning, exposing a winter...
Lisa Curry Mair’s “Daily Doodles”
One of my advisors suggested a few months ago that I should "draw every day". At the time I thought that was a little silly. I always draw. A design for a mural. A layout for a floorcloth. A Christmas card. You know. All kinds of things. Well, he gave me a little...
“Winter Village” is this week’s painting
Holy Cow! It's December already! The weather has been so mild. Our grass is still green and we're still finding ticks on the dogs! How can the holidays already be upon us? My weekly painting this week was my attempt to imagine a wintery scene. I had a blast doodling...
“To the Inn” a Thanksgiving painting
If you clicked on the photo in the email I sent Nov. 28, it mistakenly brought you here. Sorry! The Weekly Painting this week is " Postal Delivery" In celebration of Thanksgiving (my absolute favorite holiday), I have painted...