artist life


  • 30 Paintings in 30 Days Go Sketchy!

    30 Paintings in 30 Days Go Sketchy!

    I find I get in my head to much at times. Making it harder than it needs to be. I have done all the 30 and 30 challenges since Leslie started so I know how it is “to be fun”. I started a new job 2 weeks ago. 6,7,8 grade art and Skills for Living…


  • An Angry Fish Head, it’s Sketchy!

             Tom made smoked trout spread for one of our Easter snacks. This fish head, this angry looking fish head I thought would be cool to sketch. I used a carpenters pencil. It right off helps me to be looser in my lines, though it was quite challanging with that eye looking…


  • Baby Bundle

    Half way through the 30 in 30 painting challenge lead by artist Leslie Seats!! A little baby bundle 6″x 6″ in preparation for the holiday season.   Baby Bundle of Blessings 6″x 6″ mixed media Available $38.


  • Balancing an Artist Life

    Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.      Mark…


  • Confidence, Floral Painting

    Purchase information “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” ―…


  • Daffodil Watercolor Sketch

    Do what you can with the moments you have….you too could be pleasantly surprised! 💙 Sketchbook page all ready with some snippets of paper.I began sketching in the car. On the way out of studio a little early to bus I wanted to squeeze in a bit if sketching. I grab a daffodil. Something other…