Do-Overs are a natural part of the Creative Process!

I paint the negative spaces to enhance the positive. Even when I'm focused on the positive imagery, I'm aware of the impact the negative spaces have on the positive.

The story of how I came to create a 3-D pyramid painting of the BlockHeads. Read on to find out why I have six eyes and if you do too!

Curiosity is the Carrot of Inspiration — allow it to draw you into your painting to find out what it has to share with you.

My inspiration for Anuenue Ali`i Wahine came in a dream which I recorded in my journal (I like to use a purple pen in my journal).

My new home could be underneath this Ulu Tree. It's mesmerizing!

Puppy Love

I woke up at 3AM with this message in mind: Transformation Takes Time. I got out of bed to write it down and wrote the following: Shouldn’t I be further along in my career?

Paintings start with our urge to paint, followed by an inkling, a germ of an idea. Give it some thought and, if you’re lucky, or in a good frame of mind, your idea grows. Sometimes paintings begin with something seen on a walk.

Imagine a beautiful, colorful stained-glass window, 30’ long. Now imagine a stone has broken one of the panes. 

Rev. Margaret Stortz recently wrote an essay on this subject and noted that even though the broken pane was small, and not brightly colored, its shattering was deeply felt by all who saw it.

So too when one of us dies (transitions, passes, choose your verb), those of us left behind feel the loss deeply.

Good habits are golden! It takes 21–28 consecutive days to “deeply root” a habit into our psyche. If you’ve been doing something for 20 days and then you skip a day, you have to start over at day one!

I skipped two days of a new habit I’d hoped to make permanent this week. Darn it! 

Those were the exact words running through my mind over and over again while I tried to sleep. I finally got out of bed and wrote them down. Obviously this was an important message. I’m glad I did that! These words have continued to keep me focused the past few weeks and I’m expecting them to last me the entire year. They are my “words of the year”.