violet ~ watercolors, oil pastels & casein paint, 4" x 6"

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casein paint, watercolors, gouache & oil pastel on cotton, 4" x 4" in te's book

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oil pastel, casein paint, gouache, and watercolors on plaster cloth, 4" x 4" in te's book

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casein paint, watercolors, gouache & oil pastel, 4" x 6"

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blonde ~ casein paint, watercolors, gouache, & oil pastels, 4" x 6"

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truth teller with pink hair and pink shoes ~ gouache, oil pastel, watercolors & colored pencil, 4" x 6"

(i got sorta mesmerized by these truth tellers...)


today at 5:30! the snow decides to stick!

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dogwood woman ~ colored pencils, oil pastels, watercolors and gouache - 4" x 6"

thank you all for your kind words about these faces... the main thing that enabled me to paint while i was in virginia was


this little trailer... it was my home away from home and my art stuff stayed on the table; all i had to do was sit down, put the music on and paint. thank you rick and carole... (my brother-in-law and sister)

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watercolors, gouache, casein paint, and oil pastels - 4" x 6"

today i discovered 100 Girls on Cheap Paper by tina berning. whoa! you can click on thumbnails of all of the paintings here ...

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watercolors, gouache & oil pastels - 4" x 6"

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gouache, watercolor, and oil pastel - 4" x 6"

so i'm going to (quietly ; ) post some pages from the chartreuse journal... what i ended up doing was covering the pages that i wanted to paint on with book or magazine pages. glued them down with matte gel medium as i went along... about half the pages in the book have pogo prints and writing on them, and the other half i painted on. most of the faces are heavy on the white gouache!! the skin starts out as cream caran d'ache oil pastel, and evolves from there.

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blowing kisses

truth teller with yellow hair ~ watercolor, gouache, & oil pastel, chartreuse journal, 4" x 6"

and staying quiet in the blog world, for now, at least...

i've done so much, seen so much since my last post. a month in virginia with family and friends, and last week, five days in salem, oregon. the little chartreuse book is almost full! soooo many things that i could write about, but one that i want to mention for sure is the traveling picasso exhibit that opens in san francisco on june 11. i saw it at the virginia museum of fine arts in richmond, and it touched me to the core. i've never considered myself a huge picasso fan, but to be in the presence of his work, of the work of someone who was compelled to paint every day, moved me more than i could ever have imagined. if you're an obsessive painter/drawer, go see it if you can...

if you're stopping by for the first time because you've seen my stuff here or here, welcome! please feel free to ask questions - i'll be happy to answer them!

to everyone, i send my love!

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I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

~ Pablo Picasso