The Blog
Musings from a Fine Artist
Wasting time
Recently I was talking with my good friend and fellow artist-illustrator Erika Beyer on a Zoom call, as we...
Love letter to a moth
For the past couple of weeks, as midsummer coastal fog has finally given way to warm late summer sunshine...
Learning through teaching
On Friday, I wrapped up a two-week course, teaching botanical illustration as part of CSU Monterey Bay’s...
Painting in yellow (and learning to use a light touch)
For the past few months, I’ve been working on a painting of various California wildflowers, all in yellow....
Working in stages
When I have taught drawing and painting classes, one of the most revelatory things for people is that I...
Mother bees
In the two years I spent working on “Look Closer”, I thought a lot about mothering. Part of the reason it...