Throughout the months of October and November, I worked on a new series of eight small flower field paintings titled “Dreamy Snapshots” that are 5×7 inches and framed with a mat. I also started a new series of flowers over an abstract background in a square 8×8 inch size and have three of those ready for sale.

Join me for Artist Open Studios at Visual Philosophy Studios, 1065 The Alameda, San Jose, CA 95126, August 14 & 15, 2021, 3:00-6:00pm. We’ll have artists in-house and a wide variety of art, including paintings, sculpture, furniture, printmaking, drawing and more.

The live painting demo on Saturday at the School of Visual Philosophy Autumn Art Fair turned out to be a great success. I was a little skeptical that I’d be able to accomplish anything substantial in one hour, and I actually didn’t accomplish much as far as completing a painting, but I accomplished a lot as far as demonstrating how I work through the process of creating one of my paintings.

The on again and off again Silicon Valley Open Studios (SVOS) situation has resulted in something entirely new and exciting, an Online Open Studio hosted via Visual Philosophy Studio. Read on to learn the whole story and a little bit about the nine new paintings I’ll be introducing.

I’ll be painting in my studio while it’s open to the public on Saturday, 9/11 3-6pm during the “Nature Takes” art exhibition by Lisa Pelgrim and also on Sunday, 9/18 10am-3pm during Viva CalleSJ.

I finished up two more sunflower acrylic paintings yesterday. One that I particularly love shines in some lovely Indian Summer colors, perfect for August. I've titled it Rainbow Fibonacci Sunflower because I've once again highlighted the spiral pattern of the center...