Decorating With Art I'm going to deviate a little from my usual chronicles of creating art, and talk about some things which I hope you will find useful.  In the days and weeks ahead, I want to share some nuggets of what I've learned over the years in dealing with...

It took me longer than I expected to recuperate from this trip to Tennessee, but I am finally feeling rested and pretty much back to normal.  I'd had some serious issues with fluid build-up in my hands and legs/feet.  Four days of mostly sitting and some standing,...

Well, I have been gone for four days, last Wednesday - Saturday.  My Man Jim and I drove to Franklin, TN, for a seminar/conference called INNOVA/8 2016.  It was given by "48 Days" founder and entrepreneur and author Dan Miller, along with his wife Joanne, artist and...

I got "The Shunammite Woman" back from the framer late Saturday afternoon.  We took her to church with us Sunday and hung her up on the wall along with the others.  There's still an awfully lot of lo-o-o-o-o-ng hallway left, just waiting for the other seven to be...

The busyness of life Oh my goodness!  The busyness of life caught up with me!  It's been a while since I last posted about my work on "Rahab, The Harlot".  I have completed three more pastel paintings for my series of "WOMEN'S STUDIES--Defining Moments."  With God's...

Once "Rahab's" pattern was complete, and I started to add color, her face went through more metamorphosis:  Her mouth, her eyes, her clothes all needed reworking to make her look less hard, less shifty-eyed, and like she was standing in a dark, moonlit room instead of...

Oh my....I've been so remiss!  It took me FOREVER to get to "Rahab".  At my last post, I was just trying to get my eyes cleared up from infections on my corneas; that took over two months, into November!  From early November to early January, I was undergoing a...

A lot has gone on since my last post.  After I took The Woman At The Well to the framer, I began to experience some eye problems.  One of the problems was I just couldn't see worth a hoot anymore!  I have been to the doctor 3 times since the first week of September,...

Now that "The Woman At The Well" is completed and at the framer's, I cannot rest on my laurels.  Rahab is a prostitute from the Old Testament who put her faith to work to save some men of God, and in the process, saved her whole family from destruction.  Amina Antoury...

Today, Jim and I researched framers in the area, extending all the way to Harrisonburg, VA  and Inwood, WV.  I really didn't want to go that far afield, so we began by looking in the local area.  There were several listed in the Winchester/Stephens City vicinity. ...

Ah, the lettering is finished!  I have to say that it sure ain't perfect and definitely looks hand done, but then again, back in that day, EVERYTHING was hand done, and was not perfect, including writing.  I think it does what it's supposed to do, and all that remains...

This evening I began and finished the transferring process of the lettering pattern onto the nice, chestnut brown paper I purchased yesterday.  I thought about starting some actual lettering with ink, but then realized I needed to clean my pen nibs and the pen...

Early this afternoon I headed out to the local Hobby Lobby and Michael's stores.  I prefer to purchase my art supplies from online sources or a great art supply place near VCU in Richmond, but right now I don't have the time for either of those options, and these...