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I am finishing up my blogging from A-Z 2022 where I started, in Arizona. Apache County starts with A, La Paz County ends with Z. [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2022: Z is for LaPaZ County, AZ

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Yellowstone National Park is in north western Wyoming. I visited in 1995, and was fascinated by Old Faithful [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2022: Y is for Yellowstone

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In addition to the in-person Superfine Seattle show, I have an online exhibition opening May 7 on Shoebox Arts. I will be showing paper weavings of Los Angeles traffic [...]

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I confess, I have a road trip obsession with water towers [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2022: W is for Water Towers

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I wasn't planning on taking this piece to Superfine Seattle because the frame is damaged. But then this happened [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2022: V is for Virginia

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I haven't done much with the photos I took last fall on a road trip from LA to upstate NY and back. One thing I did this trip was take exterior and interior shots of the motel rooms. [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2022: U is for Utah

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I've created a lot of art inspired by Texas. These are images from the eastern side. [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2022: T is for Texas

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At last! The Superfine Seattle Art Fair is happening, May 12-15, 2022. [...]

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I circumnavigated the edge of the 48 contiguous US states in 2014. Out of this came a series of altered photographs. [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2022: R is for Route US2

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1982. We car camped on the beach for three weeks on a narrow spit of land between the gulf and a lagoon. [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2022: Q is for Quintana Roo

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This piece is OLD! [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2022: P is for Palm Trees

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I get particular joy seeing mismatched doors on the back of trucks [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2022: O is for One Orange Door

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The purple silk satin originated from a dressmaking commission, a prom dress for Nola. [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2022: N is for the Nola Scrappy Square

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The stone fences on Martha's Vineyard are something. [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2022: M is for Martha's Vineyard

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I have been fascinated by this "lake" for years. It is actually water in a gravel pit. [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2022: L is for the South El Monte "Lake"

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Most of this year's A-Z art journey has me looking at older artwork. This is something new! Kumihimo is a Japanese braiding technique that I learned earlier this year. [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2022: K is for Kumihimo

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I started the Jam Portraits series after my dad passed away in March 1996. I was in residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and had a half-finished jar of jam that he and my mom had made. I then painted after every serving on my daily breakfast toast. [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2022: J is for Jam Paintings

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My first map pieces were created in 2001. My concept was to use one of my road photos inserted into the state shape, a map of the region, and a handwritten scrap with the location. [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2022: I is for "I" States Collage Maps

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One of my obsessions while road tripping is hay bales. Perhaps because they impose a geometric pattern onto the landscape. [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2022: H is for Hay Bales

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In May 1995, I spent a month in residency at Hambidge Arts Center, in north eastern Georgia. I did a lot of oil painting en plein air. [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2022: G is for Georgia Paintings

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Florida map art! [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2022: F is for Florida

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When you enter El Paso southbound on I-10, you get a close up view of a barrio in Cuidad Juarez. [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2022: E is for El Paso

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The Denim Weaving. Still unfinished. [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2022: D is for Denim Weaving

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In 2010, I started sketching cupcakes. [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2022: C is for Cupcakes

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In 2014, I did a very long road trip, circumnavigating the contiguous US. I crowdfunded the journey, and one of the rewards was an 8x5" ink sketch, drawn from life. I ended up mostly sketching breakfasts! [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2022: Breakfast in Bath

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This month, I will be blogging my way through the alphabet, as part of the Blogging from A to Z Challenge. With each letter, I am going to feature something about my art work. Just like last year, today is Arizona day (because AZ, get it?). [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2022: Let's begin with AZ (again)

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I'm baaaack with the A-Z Challenge! I had so much fun framing A-Z through my art last year, I'm doing it again! [...]

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Whew! A month of daily art posts, mostly written the day before the letter was due. My mission to become comfortable with this blogging platform was achieved. [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2021: Conclusion

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What better activity than sketching a Zoom meeting [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2021: Z is for Zoom Sketching

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That time I became obsessed with painting a yucca at sunrise. [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2021: Y is for Yuccas

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Until yesterday morning, I truly had no idea WHAT I was going to post for X. [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2021: X is for the X Factor

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What are Waterlogues? [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2021: W is for Waterlogues

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This body of work began in the '70s as silkscreen monoprints. [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2021: V is for the Veil Series

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UFOs (unfinished objects), I have a few! [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2021: U is for Unfinished

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Trucks. I was stuck behind them for years. [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2021: T is for Trucks

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Selfies! [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2021: S is for Self-Portrait Sketches

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Obvious choice of genre, if you know my work. Where to begin? [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2021: R is for Road Trip

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Quilt, as in Crazy Quilt, my haptic work in progress since 1973 or 74. [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2021: Q is for Quilt

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Chalk Pastels! A favorite medium. [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2021: P is for Pastel

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I have recently become captivated with origami, the art of folding paper. It's another way I can deploy the paper ephemera I have laying around. [...]

#AtoZchallenge 2021: O is for Origami

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