At lease once a year I make sure to continue my education through inspiring visits of other artists' works. I come away feeling refreshed and motivated.
Picasso
Lights are always inspiring to me, this room was an installation filled with tiny red lights on the floor.
If you look closely the shape of a figure emerges from long metal rods, similar to large push pins.
I painted this for a teenagers room. The theme was New Orleans Mardi Gras, this is a dresser with a masked woman.
This is the left side, a view of the peacock feathers in her mask.
This is the Jester dresser. The Jester is sitting on a ornate ledge over a riotous crowd. 
I started college with the intention of studying law. A semester into my studies I took a part time job at the college as an art model for the Human Figure Drawing class. The job allowed me to be close to working artists, students, and well educated instructors. This job led to several other gigs, working for private artists. I became engrossed with what my instructors could teach me and I had access to private art libraries. A year later I changed my major to Liberal Arts. It allowed me to study Art, Psychology, and Writing.
This is another way I got through college, painting furniture and murals. Poppies on a coffee table.
This is a painted door with climbing roses. The windows are real, to the right are painted irises under a tree. 
My sweet mother let me practice on her walls! She chose this from a magazine and I set to work on my first mural. 
I painted three patient rooms; this room was transportation themed and the train appears to be coming through the door.
This was in the hallway leading to the dinosaur room. A mother feeding her babies. 
This was painted behind the front desk at a tile store. It is a view chosen by the client of the Mediterranean. 
This is a mural I painted for a Chiropractic office. I painted murals and furniture to supplement my income in college. 
This was used as a decorative piece in the corner of a sunroom. Commissioned.
This is my daughter.
This is an angled view, the background is shiny and my husband the photographer needs to shoot from the side to prevent glare.
Sunset. Oil and polyurethane. Sold.
This is a series I did with an artist friend of mine. We sat in the creek or on the bank and painted plein air. They are smaller, 16/ 20" and in oil.
This is a thick painting. There are many layers of enamels and I used a polyurethane that is 10 times thicker than what I usually use. This was an experiment in materials. I feel it captures the gesture of falling snow.
I painted this after I read East of Eden by Steinbeck. I was thinking about how humans are indowed with good and evil. We are divided creatures. The blue was layed down first, then black enamel, the white enamel over the black and finally polyurethane to create all the scattered gestures of the paint. Two paintings, 24/36, Sold. 
This was the original poured idea. I love this painting and wish I hadn't sold it in Kansas City. It is large also, my favorite way to paint, 3'/4'. I poured the enamel onto wet polyurethane and watched it combine. It was like watching something in a lab, mutating into something greater.
This is huge, 4'/5', stretched canvas on a donated frame. I used Easter egg dye, left over from my kids. Then I added spray paint and painted between the colors with black enamel. I did this to highlight the natural gestures that paint makes when poured.
The red and silver is spray paint, the gold is polyurethane and the black is enamel. The contours of this paint was formed on it's own due to the different consistencies of the paint. The title comes from the randomness of life, things happen we don't plan but I believe we should make what we have into something beautiful. 
Close up of one corner. 24"/48". Sold.
I painted with oil, and used marker to draw over my old wedding dress, then lit it from behind with string lights. It is about 36"/46" and has been sold. 
This is woven paper, dipped in different paints to make it pliable. I then poured polyurethane over the paper to make it stiff. It is lit with red lights from behind. I love working with lights. 
I was inspired by an Aztec mask covered in bits of beautiful glass. The Aztecs gathered the glass from all parts of the world. The mask was a human skull. I am using broken mirrors, some older than me. I can't throw mirrors away when they crack. I have always kept them for any future projects; I am turning my "bad" luck into good fortune. I have looked into these mirrors at each stage of my life. 
The skull comes from my in-laws long horn ranch. This particular one is in almost perfect condition.
This a long horn skull painted in shades of gold. Sold.
Multi-colored long horn skull. Sold.
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