As a child and young adult I loved painting in watercolor but I had no formal instruction. Since retiring from teaching I have taken it up again 30+ years later taking advantage of the post-covid world of online learning.
Villa Aurelia in Rome during Covid 2020 when everybody but us and the gardeners had gone away. Painted 2025.
House in Clifton neighborhood of Cincinnati. Painted in fall of 2024.
A house warming gift painted in 2024 for friends in Cincinnati who had just bought this new home in Clifton
A street in Taos, New Mexico visited and painted in summer 2025.
Sketch of a street in old city Bucharest. Painted in May 2024.
Sketch of Cincinnati view from Kentucky with the Purple People bridge and the "MacDonald bridge", Summer 2024.
My favorite house in Newport, Kentucky. I love the facade patterns and the hydrangeas. Painted summer 2024 when we were forced out of our condo due to fire and were living temporarily in across the river in Kentucky.
Backyard birds. These are some of our most common visitors.
A brown headed nuthatch. Painted for a friend who lives in North Carolina for her birthday. Painted 2024.
A blue footed boobie. Painted after a Galapagos trip in October 2025.
Boobies are all about face and feet. Three different types we saw in the Galapagos. Painted Novermber 2025.
Study of the feathers and anatomy of a Carolina Chickadee. Painted 2024.
Our beloved beagle, Fergus, when he was still in "teenage" phase. Painted 2025.