My inspiration for this painting was garden flowers, a source of beauty and a cheerful pick-up in our lives. Flowers are an ongoing creative inspiration with many different types and irresistible array of colors and shapes. more »
My inspiration and focus for this design is centered on a floral theme and abstracted as a kaleidoscope image. more »
My inspiration for this painting were the wildflowers from our garden. I wanted to convey the joy and excitement of the blooms using splashes of bold color. more »
I love painting flowers, especially ones that are brightly colored and have big blossoms. This bouquet includes zinnias and balloon flowers from our garden. more »
I have found inspiration in the Iowa landscape and began this series of collage farm scenes early in my career. This design was created from some photos I took on our drive from Twin Cities along I-35. The barn and outbuildings are set among the curved fields of autumn, drawing the eye into the landscape. It is […] more »
Flowers provide me with infinite inspiration. I have painted tulips before -- they are one of my favorite flowers. I am attracted to their color and shape. more »
This is a pet portrait in watercolor of one of our cats, Tiny. We adopted Tiny many years ago and her markings are similar to the Russian Blue breed. more »
The inspiration for this watercolor painting was fresh-cut coneflowers and black-eyed susans. Their colors are vivid and saturated. more »
This series of musical instruments began years ago. The previous paintings were done in acrylic collage, which included saturated pigments and texture. I love the shapes and challenged myself to continue this series in watercolor. more »
These beautiful sunflowers were picked from my garden and set in a transparent vase on a table outside to capture the light and shadows. My goal was to paint in a vignette format, meaning that the background is the plain paper and the design must touch three sides of the paper. more »