New Studio

My husband bought me a studio for our anniversary. What a wonderful surprise! It's about 20/16 with plenty of light. Now all of my work will be condensed into one space. I have already been working more efficiently.

Mirrored Cow Skull

For SALE! This is a perfect condition longhorn skull. The mirrors have been in my collection for more than forty years. I have seen this in catalogs for $1400, I am willing to sell it for $850.

Abby and Luna

This is a Christmas present for my brother and sister-in-law. It is 24/36". I worked everything out with acryllic paint and then worked in a layer of oils. I would sell something of this size for 450$. They love it!

Injuries

It's unfortunate, but I have been struggling with a back injury since January. It has greatly reduced my output, but I am still hopeful, if I do all the right things that I will be back in the game soon. I have only painted three portraits in the last eight months. Traction four times a day and physical therapy forever! Whatever helps me push paint around I am willing to try,...

The Nasher Sculpture Garden; the Dallas Modern

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.

DDP show

DDP Gallery show Sept. 2008; Friends gather under illuminated resin lanterns.

Another view

Times Square Show

Times Square taking delivered painting to show in cold January 2008.

Mardi Gras furniture

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.

Art Modeling

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.
Drawing by Ernest Cialone









This is another way I got through college, painting furniture and murals. Poppies on a coffee table.

Door mural

This is a painted door with climbing roses. The windows are real, to the right are painted irises under a tree.

Stairway Mural

My sweet mother let me practice on her walls! She chose this from a magazine and I set to work on my first mural.

Pediatrician's Office

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.

Mural

This was painted behind the front desk at a tile store. It is a view chosen by the client of the Mediterranean.

Mural and Painted Door

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.

Madeline eating a Butterfinger at the pool

My daughter, age 4.

Lane

My son, several years ago.

Madeline

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.

Meeko Portrait

This was painted as a gift for friends. Their daughter, black and white oils.

Cousins

This was a commissioned portrait. These boys were fun to paint, so innocent!

The Beginning and a Sunset

Sunset. Oil and polyurethane. Sold.







This was a painting based on an old Bible enclycopedias. I always looked through them when I was sick in a doctor's office. The illustrations struck me again years later when I was cleaning out my children's books. There was something simple about them, the colors so juicy. These images come to me whenever I hear anything about preservation of the earth. I would still like to do more of these, but I am full of ideas and sometimes they take years to complete. This is on canvas stretched on the back of a frame. After I painted in acryllic I poured the polyurethane to almost an inch thick.

Our Corner of the Creek

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.

Snow

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.

Timshul

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.

Poured

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.

Buffalo River

This is was painted after my husband proposed on Hawk's Bill Crag; earlier that day we were taking pictures looking over the river. The sun was blinding and the movement of the water breathtaking. I came home and painted this; using spray paint, enamel, polyurethane. After it was dried to a solid glossy finish, I drew around the paint drippings enhancing the feeling of movement in the water.

Easter Egg Dye

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.

Accidents Happen

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.