What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. ~Gertrude Jekyll
Drawing my amaryllis
With the summer solstice just past and the Fourth of July hard [...]
Periodically I am reminded that I share Uptown Marion with an assemblage of personalities who are all laboring in a universe roughly parallel to my own. Sure, the variables change, but they too ponder hours and staffing. They fret over display, and delight in sharing their goods with their customers.
I had one of these moments [...]
…”springtime ephemeral –simply meaning it disappears back underground after its early display…”
Violet
“These will be so great for a Mother’s Day post!” Maggie crowed after I sent her my first drawings of some spring ephemerals that we hope to use for a collaborative project. In short, I’ve done the drawings and the plan is that Maggie [...]
Dr. William Olin
I have done a lot of crazy things in a lifetime lived as a “working artist”. Pair that status with a lifetime spent with Craig (easily the most outrageously creative person I have ever known), who seems to have an inexhaustible supply of great ideas, often, (but certainly not always!) executed by all [...]
So! I’ve paired up a couple of etchings of my own in a holiday package. I love these miniature nudes that capture the grace of a feminine gesture in a few lines. Stop in the gallery to have a look!