As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult as he had when a child.

Charles Burchfield

Well, it is finally time on this one to add the flowers.  It is amazing to me to just contemplate one leaf ~ so intricate and so many different colors.  This is the fun part where I get to focus on the beauty of nature. 

                                              The Calm Before The Storm


The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

                            Ralph Waldo Emerson 

 Although this painting needs a little more fine tuning it is already one of my favorites.  I love how the little church stands so proudly and so securely in spite of the terrible storm brewing behind it.  The trees and the wheat field also stand so serenely in the church's presence.  I will try to add a little more drama by putting some more shadows in the landscape but will try to hang on to that feeling of calmness.

                                                                       Morning Windowsill



No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

                                                                  John Ruskin


I have been working on this window and windowsill for quite awhile and haven't been happy with it.  This morning it was either do it or put it in the pile of "to be gessoed over" ~ maybe it was the art show I went to this weekend that inspired me but I am much happier with things now.  After letting this rest for awhile I will come back and put in the real focus of the painting ~ flowers!

 The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

                                         Ralph Waldo Emerson


This is my latest drawing ~ although it needs some tweeking I have decided to leave her to ride her bike for awhile without me.