My art blog… what’s on my easel… daily painting… sketches… digital stuff …photography…challenges…and a bit of poetry

Grounds Week 2

Slow Burner It’s been a long month New Year’s and all the holidays with weekends mixed in. New gr-granddaughter Ellie, new status! Feel so blessed! New intensive online workshop with Sara Post! Lots of inspiration, Great community! And lots of work! New computer not quite set up! Is it any wonder that my blog was […]

Yom Kippur

Upstairs Hey, you guys up there. Yes, I am talking to you! Mohammad, Jesus,Buddha. Jacob, Joseph, Moses! Sara,Lea, Miriam,Rachel! Give  peace! Enough! Click to Enlarge On this eve of Yom Kippur I am feeling lots of mixed emotions and feelings.  This short poem expresses some of those thoughts. Painting Oils and cold wax on paper […]

Scribble a Landscape

New Year The time has come around not feeling happy joyous. Just going with the usual motions. Deep sense of sorrow abandonment loss thinking just a 1 hour drive a nightmare! Yet, in a few hours I will be joining family always a happy time! Bringing apple pie! Just going with the usual motions. Click […]

Scribbling Scribbling

Timing 8:00PM-10PM not my time for focusI am a morning person,evening walk with Rutiewhen the heat of the dayhas let up.shower, light supper, wind down time. But, for my Zoom workshopinner clock, mindset changes 12 artists plus instructor,all about artcontemporary drawingscribbling what is an abstract landscapepresence, being in vs viewweathertimeobservation, natural phenomenaan X factor Two […]

New Start

Chance Meeting At the ledge of the poolMy arms stretched on the concreteSoaking up the sun. A small reddish dragonfly dropped down,not far a few feet.Hopped around and stopped. Our eyes met quietly for a few seconds. I slowly swam away letting him continueWhat ever it was that he was doing! Click to Enlarge Click […]

Another Gliche

Seems I spending so much time getting things to work. I just posted a new blog post and it didn’t go out.  I turned off the wrong setting! Happens. I hope this goes out without a gliche. Link to previous post! More of Mom’s Art