Inspiration

I SEE THINGS. 

 Not clairvoyantly (thank goodness), but as I walk, drive, or ride as a passenger. Clouds become ships, people, animals, or I enjoy how a house or barn aged, the shadows and highlights on leaves in spring, summer, fall and winter, or bark on a tree, animals, big round bales in a field, or just color combinations. I imagine you've done that too. I snapshot a lot of these for future reference and they become inspiration for my art. My current mediums are acrylics, some pastels and pencil. I’m happy to share my work via sales and I do welcome special orders.

Techniques

Art in many forms has been a passion of mine since I was in elementary school. I began improving my chalkboard and crayon skills with charcoals, watercolors later, and high school classes introduced me to oil painting. As an Art Ed major at William Woods, I studied balance and shadowing, creating clay forms both hand-crafted and on the potter’s wheel, and acrylics, pastels, along with more abstract art. YouTube has been a wonderful resource with other fine and talented artists showing their work as they create it. I look forward to visitors and can answer questions about a specific item you are drawn to.  And I’m happy to share my work via sales and I do welcome special orders.

Life highlights

On a personal note, I’m an educator at heart becoming a teacher of the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing and a certified and licensed ASL*/English interpreter and also served as an adjunct at William Woods University. I’ve enjoyed and continue to enjoy my “furry beasts" (dog and cat); love singing and good harmony; enjoyed my Missouri Fox Trotters immensely; dancing; learning about and how to do things; enjoy solitude sometimes and other times togetherness; I’m a passionate reader; and I tenaciously treasure my family. And, of course, making ART! (*American Sign Language)