• Tangram spread from my scrapbook. Done with magazine ads and the inner side of envelopes primarily in pinks, greys, yellows, and greens

Day 20: Tangrams

Day 20 of #ArtAdventCalendar on Bluesky, sometimes I'm inspired to take peoples' trash and turn it into collages. My dream is to one day sell it back to them because they find it beautiful. Tangrams Mixed media collage spread 2023

  • Watercolor of Blondie's hotel/cafe in downtown Shelton WA

Day 19: Blondie’s

Day 19 of #ArtAdventCalendar on Bluesky, I do an awful lot of paintings of the nearby logging town in the throes of vanishing. It's not romantic or charming, but keeps sucking me in. This is a street view of a local...bar? Cafe? I'm not sure, I've never been inside. It's

  • Watercolor of a yellow hot rod on the streets of Gig Harbor, WA.

Day 18: Hot rod yellow

Day 18 of #ArtAdventCalendar on Bluesky, there are a lot of classic cars in the #pnw and people sometimes park them on the street. Which is crazy to me. If I had this car, it would be encased in bubble wrap much less park it where people could touch it.

  • Moody monoprint done in a teal blue gradient with lots of movement and white voids that remind me of whitecaps on the sea.

Day 17: Moody Monoprint

Day 17 of #ArtAdventCalendar on Bluesky, if I could cover the world in moody monoprints, I'd start with this one. Blue mood Acrylic 7.5x9.5 2023

  • Watercolor of my husband shopping at the grocery store. There's a wall of poinsettias in the background and some strange lady with a cart.

Day 16: Checking it twice

Day 16 of #ArtAdventCalendar on Bluesky, my husband often asks why I'm taking pictures at odd moments. And then he sees the painting. And sighs. BTW, in my first art show, this was the painting that got the most reactions. I don't think it's what people expect to see, and

  • Interstellar Toothpaste: acrylic on canvas, featuring red concentric circles on a dark blue background with pops of orange, silver, and pink. Looks a little bit like a fight from Star Wars or something.

Day 15: Interstellar Toothpaste

Day 15 of #ArtAdventCalendar on Bluesky, sometimes when I use up bits of paint, weirdness manifests. Interstellar Toothpaste Acrylic on canvas 9x13 2024