• Happy Autumn!

    Happy Autumn!

    I have to admit, I’m beginning to like autumn. It’s cool weather ends the hot weather of summer. Much as I love summer, I look forward to the end of it. Also, the colors of the leaves are another reason I like fall. Here, I was just stepping out of the car and saw this.…

  • Blown Away

    Blown Away

    What do I think of other artists’ work? I love it! I love it better than my own work, if I am honest. Mostly, I prefer representational work, although some abstract blows me away, too. What I really like is work similar to my own, only better. Frustration hits, though, when something in the non-art,…

  • Alfred Hitchcock Strikes Again!

    Alfred Hitchcock Strikes Again!

    Or maybe it’s Bob Marley’s talking birds saying not to worry. Anyway, birds. Again. We’re into autumn now, soon to take a turn into winter. I will be away for Halloween, visiting and celebrating with a friend in the Midwest. Crows make a great subject for Halloween, and fall in general. And winter, for that…

  • Autumn Already?

    Autumn Already?

    Yes, it’s fall, and I’m enjoying it.  Today was a crisp, bright day, with a sapphire sky.  I went to the local farmer’s market.  Apple and pears abounded-not to mention pumpkins. No, I’m not talking about my cat again.  I’m talking about the raw materials for jack-o-lanterns. My very first autumn picture in colored pencil…

  • I’m in the Mood for Fall….

    Most of autumn I hate.  It’s the rain-soaked doorstep to winter.  Bare trees, cold weather, and the beginning of the most stressful time of year for many folk…the Holidays, with a capital H.  As in Hell. But there is a little sliver in time between the end of the summer weather, and the really dark…