Month: March 2021

Spring is officially here, and in North Carolina the daffodils, especially in sheltered sunny spots, are in full bloom. Here’s a casual painting of a clump of them near our new house.

After several years of low-level pain which has reduced my exercise (walking, yoga), I had my right hip replaced last Tuesday. I’m closer to pain-free every day! Kate and Lila, our daughter and granddaughter, came last weekend and painted my toes. Then it seemed time for a rehab sketch.

We are so incredibly blessed by modern medicine. Do you know the average life expectancy of people in 1900? 49.

The beginning of Daylight Savings Time is the best time of the year — eight months of longer, warmer days stretching ahead of us. Birds migrating north, flowers poking out, winter coats stowed in the closet. Blessings await.

Painting faces is tough. “A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth,” wrote John Singer Sargent. I don’t know this woman — whose photo I found on the internet — so she won’t be offended if it doesn’t look quite like her.