It seems like more than 2 weeks since I last posted and I'm pushing myself to get at least one post written this weekend. This is Centr...

When I was a child in a small town in Arkansas my phone number was 255. That's it. Three little numbers. Then it became 3255, and eventu...

Cover 8x10 I'm building a new journal for an upcoming trip back to my old stompin' grounds. I used Teesha Moore's directions fo...

Mt. Hood Pencil, pen and ink, watercolor crayons. Mt. Hood is only 50 miles east of Portland and lures many Oregonians to its beautiful slo...

The end of the phone book is near. Both AT&T and Verizon have initiated plans to stop delivering the white pages in several states.  ...

Rivers Oregon, especially the western part, is all about water and mountains and forests and rivers and agriculture. Because we get lots of...

Self Portrait September 2010 Today is my birthday. Some creative people have birthday rituals; they paint a self portrait or make a self po...

May I introduce you to my friend Elizabeth Nelson who has an unusual approach to figurative collage.  She draws a recognizable subject (do...

Wait 5x7 4 pieces of paper on card. It works.

Trust 5x7 I'm pleased with this one. The top layer is spray stencil. The bottom layer is part of a nude painting I did in a class that...