V In Everything

Category: traditional art

  • Botanical Obsession

    Botanical Obsession

    As the weather turned warmer, I naturally became obsessed with plants again and have been painting them pretty much to the exclusion of all else. Here are a few of my recent paintings in watercolor! All of these I painted from my own reference photographs. The hydrangeas especially took forever because I was really focusing…

  • Adventures in Unemployment, Part II

    Adventures in Unemployment, Part II

    In this, my third period of unemployment in as many years, it has finally occurred to me that I haven’t shared one of my favorite paintings that I have done last year. It’s called Adventures in Unemployment, Part II. When I was unemployed for the second time (thus, “Part II”) it was summer and I…

  • Lost Studio

    I haven’t been painting much lately and it doesn’t feel good. For the six years that we have lived in this house, the basement (really the ground floor) has been a huge mess. Part workshop, part gym, part storage – all mess. It has taken all that time and multiple attempts to finally turn it…