Daily Paintings

From 2011 through July 2015 I painted just about every day, and shared the finished paintings in this feed.

I still share my works-in-progress here, and on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.

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April 17, 2015

Ocean

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When I was a kid, my family spent a few weekends a year at a beach community 90 minutes away from home, called Pajaro Dunes. Sometimes my brother and I would each get to bring a friend.

Northern California beaches aren’t particularly warm — this is not Baywatch land — but we were fearless. One weekend, my friend Julie and I romped in the waves for so long (probably pretending to be Charlie’s Angels) that we could not get warm again. Even after a hot bath we sat shivering in a pool of sunlight through the living room window.

My dad said we had the early stages of hypothermia, which sounded so exotically dramatic, it sort of made up for our pain.

I’ve gotten more cautious in my old age. No Polar Bear here! I’ll take a warm water ocean any day, though.

April 16, 2015

Robin’s Egg

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Have you ever held a robin’s egg in your hand? So tiny, so blue. It seems almost impossible that something organic could be so bright. Particularly from a bird whose feathers aren’t spectacularly bright.

I guess it’s just like the rest of us: from nondescript exteriors, great beauty can be born.

April 15, 2015

Ballerina

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My first creative passion was dance. When I had to stop, due to an injury, it was as if my world had come to an end.

Years later I “got dance back,” in the form of social dancing: salsa, ballroom, Argentine Tango. I think nothing makes me happier than dancing!

And painting is dancing, just on a smaller scale. With a small painting like this, I may be dancing only with my forearms, wrists, hands, and fingers, but the marks are a frozen record of my movement.

Turns out I never truly lost dance after all. 🙂

April 14, 2015

Ladder

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If there were a ladder reaching up to heaven, designed by an abstract artist, it might look something like this. I kinda want to climb it, don’t you?

April 13, 2015

Marsh Sunrise

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If I hop in my car and head due North, in a matter of a few minutes I’ll end up right at the edge of San Francisco Bay. I love walking out on the levees, which are teeming with wildlife: pelicans, geese, kites, ducks, sandpipers and other birds; hares; I’ve even seen some pretty impressive (non-venomous!) snakes out there. And of course lots of plant life, too — pickleweed, and grasses of all kinds.

Walking on the edge of the bay is where I’ve processed life changes, healed from broken hearts, and started to see my beloved Miracle Man for the keeper he is. It’s a place that’s very dear to me. This painting captures the evanescent quality of sunsets by the water.

Daily Paintings

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