Just a quick post about a new exhibition titled "Small Works" in which four of my paintings are hanging: Top row, left to right: Mushrooms, tricoloma (5" x 7") Mushrooms, cortinarius (5" x 7") Bottom row, left to right: End of Summer Flowers & Rose Hips (12" x 9") Flowers, Protea & Sedum (11 5/8"x9") The exhibition is in West Orange, NJ at 551 Valley Road, adjacent to the Luna Stage and is sponsored by the West Orange Arts Council. Before the exhibition there was a costu

Recently, a friend asked me to make him a painting of his favorite building, the Eduskuntatalo aka the Parliament House in Helsinki, Finland. I thought it was a little weird to even have a favorite building and it made me think of Michael Scott and Pam in the episode of The Office in which Michael buys Pam's watercolor of their office building and hangs it in his office: I had never tried to paint architecture before and wasn't really sure I could pull it off. During a littl

I have just returned from a small ship cruise on the Clio, organized by Grand Circle Cruise Line and led by the fantastic Program Director, Alejo. We began in Lisbon, Portugal and stopped at various ports in Spain (and Gibraltar). The flights to and from Europe were long, 7+ and 8+ hours and I had packed watercolor supplies in my carryon. What I learned though, is that despite being well prepared to paint on the plane, I just didn't have the desire to do so! Eating and dr