Honing Your Power of Focus
Keep Your Eye on the PrizeWhen I began to return to my artistic roots, I started with drawing. I used colored pencils to describe my inner world, and that of others (with their permission).
Ten-Minute Revolution and Drawing
The New Year has begun and so have weekly sessions of life drawing. Drawing a live model is one of the most energizing ways to invigorate a drawing practice.
Apple-Cranberry Crumb Pie
4 unpeeled baking apples sliced, 1 C fresh or frozen cranberries, 1 tsp orange zest...
The Bestest Cranberry Bars (ever)
This is cranberry season, one of my favorite seasons of the year. While I still have cranberries in my freezer from last year, I will buy more to fill my reserves.
Mermaids Keep Showing Up
This one came to me in the comics one Sunday last month. It's one of Chad Carpenter's Tundra Comics.
Out on a Limb
The idea of going out on a limb was never before so clear as when I saw these Palm trees growing on the lawn of a home in Honolulu.
Ten Lessons the Arts Teach
1. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships...
Tumbling Pineapples
Pineapples make a great addition to Carrot Cake, please try my favorite recipe!
The Mermaid's Lament
You might wonder what a mermaid could possibly lament, but if, like many women, you enjoy a new pair of shoes, this painting is self-explanatory.
FREE 30-minute Speed Painting at the Kuloko Arts Gallery
Join me every Tuesday morning at 11AM when I teach a FREE 30-minute Speed Watercolor Painting Class at Kuloko Arts Gallery at the Outrigger Reef on the Beach in Waikiki.
Travel Journals
Yesterday my friend Tamara Moan took me and another friend, Frances Hill, on a trip around Whole Foods in Kailua to teach us the ins and outs of keeping an Artistic Travel Journal.
