Animals of Vieques. Oil on stretched canvas – 16″ x 20″

More Vieques art. Musicians of Vieques, 12 x 12 oil on stretched canvas, sold at the Vieques 12 x 12 auction to benefit island animals; seascape on found corrugated scrap metal with various house paints; clay mask from Lulu’s ceramics studio class

Imagine – 14 x 18 oil on bristol

I started attending a Wednesday evening open session for drawing live nudes. I’m loving it so far. I turned this sketch into a water color .

Family in ago – oil in antique frame; Noeline as little Tudor – 14 x 18 oil

Quick jottings: my boys with babes – watercolor on cardstock; baby Jura on wooden cigar box top

Food studies top row – oils on various sized stretched canvases; blueberries, oil on Bristol

Self-portraits from ago invented spaces, both oils on bristol

Motherhood with Sophie – oil on bristol and pastel on paper

Parker’s old home, Peter lost in motion and Christmas Eve Day hangover – oils on stretched canvas

Tributes to my father – oils on Bristol from old black and white photos

Northern Michigan snaps – both oils on bristol

Birds: crows in the moon, water color on paper; cedar waxwings, oil on stretched canvas

Quick water colors: girls in cemetery and bumble bee

Some of my first attempts in paint – acrylic (which I discovered is not my favorite medium). My Beau and Sophie and me

Portraits: charcoal on paper and three water colors

Doodlings on my smudge pads from other works

Two original crewel works, wool yarn on linen: Hey Diddle Diddle and the Owl and the Pusscat; hotwater bottle cozies from old cashmere sweaters with applique; pillow with crow on linen

Oils on stretched canvas: escaped hobby horses and old bug and bunny

My biggest fan

Musicians. The first is Mitsuko Uchida from a newpaper photo. The second is a young Cypriot cellist at Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music; the third is probably my inspiration for taking up painting. She is a great-aunt of my ex, and it was a B&W photo that I co-opted because no one else wanted it. I had tried to get an artist friend to do a commission of it, but he never got around to it. One of the many DIY moments in my life where I decided to do it myself. These are all early and flawed, but I put them up as a way to track my own progress and growth as a painter.

Water color sketchbook. Some of my first water colors, all from Vieques just a couple months after the devastating hurricane Maria had hit the island.