One sunny day in Barzitsa, I decided to paint the little cottage where I was pampered and fed and cared for. Stella’s choices of colors are fantastic, so I loved the warm stucco on this house. I wanted to depict this place as fairy-tale like, which it was. This 1/4 sheet sized painting is for…

We went out in search of purple fields. We found one, along the side of a busy highway. It was a bit too exciting to be along the side of the road, but even after more than an hour, only 1 person blew their horn as they went by at 90mph. Then we moved from…

I started the workshop on the wrong foot. With a 24 hour stomach bug, I missed the first day of fun. The second day, I felt strong enough to paint some flowers.

When I paint a horse, it isn’t just a horse. The horse represents a feeling. Horses are very expressive animals, they express joy, anger, fear, frivolity, power. A challenge for me as an artist is to show that feeling in the horse’s posture. I have been drawing horses since I was a small child. I’m…

One of the least known cats in the world, existing on the very edges of the earth, are the manul. They can be found on the steppes of China and Russia and make their homes in Tibet at altitudes above 16,000 feet. While they look much bigger than our domestic cats due to their wonderful…