This girl has some serious talent.

Thanks to sites like Zazzle and CafePress – I can paint to my heart’s delight, sell the originals to art lovers, and then sell high-resolution prints of them on things like calenders, shirts, yard signs, mugs, bibs, tiles, and hundreds of other useful items. My family can set aside their morbid fear of being trapped in an art gallery (no touchy!), I get to pay my bills, and you get sumpin’ purdy! Woo hoo! A starving artist no more.

Seriously though, I love my CafePress ‘printables’. I have bought several of my own tiles, shirts, and other useful household items (waiting with bated breath for my Bob & Jane apron!!). Another thing besides the prices that I love about CafePress is the superb quality of their products. I have a shirt from there that has been washed a countless number of times over the past couple of years and it has yet to fade.

My compulsion to combine form and function in my work can be traced back to my youthful obsession with MacGyver. After all, if anyone can diffuse a bomb with a squirrel (more…)

I just finished a new painting, another in a series entitled “Doll Collection.” Yeah, it’s a working title… I still don’t have a name for any of my doll paintings. The first 3 were given away as gifts a while back.

This one measures 11″ x 14″ x 7/8″ and is painted with acrylics on gallery stretched canvas (staple free sides are painted black. Here’s the no-name doll herself (with a black frame graphic & watermark):

I hope to eventually name her, any (more…)