Years ago we cut the top off of a scraggly looking magnolia tree in our back yard with the intent to leave a good portion of the trunk to pl...

Back in March, a new game came out called Animal Crossing New Horizons.  It launched just as the pandemic was spreading across the globe.  T...

Terry brought inside a Guava fruit he found on a small tree along the property line between our neighbor and ourselves.  This particular one...

Years ago I used to be big into fabric crafting ornaments and other small items like dolls and angels.   This morning I decided to work a sk...

Today I decided to sketch this anchor and then using Procreate, worked with different brush tools just to compare results. The first examp...

This morning I was up early and rather than turning on the TV or playing games, I decided to try and sketch something.......anything.  Inste...

My eldest son and his family were to come to Florida for a week the last part of June and then spend a week at Myrtle Beach.  Unfortunately ...

Not that I need any more pens but I treated myself to three Metropolitans after learning they came in other than black or gold like back yea...

Fighting a major art slump, I started doing some surfing hoping to find some inspiration and came across a term I hadn't heard before......

Struggling now for going on two months with this art slump I'm in, I managed to work this digital painting.  I tried a week or so ago to...

This was done back in April as I was fighting the beginning of an art slump I'm still dealing with.  Just now catching up posting this p...

Spring is such a busy time and joy to watch.  We learned a pair of Mockingbirds are building a nest in our Bougainvillea in the front yard. ...

Early this morning, as I drank my first cup of coffee, I watched this Brown Thrasher "thrashing" at the ground to move leaves and ...

Painting shadows.......particularly cast shadows has always been an issue for me.  Putting in shadows tend to intimidate me for some reason....

With everything going on and people staying home due to the Coronavirus, now might be a good time to try your hand at making your own journa...

One of my favorite flowering shrubs is the Hibiscus.  We have a couple orange flowering shrubs that were here (in the ground) when we moved ...

One of the things I do is save all my blog posts.  My blog is an extension to my actual journals where space is limited on a page for variou...

Between the wildlife I see everyday, flowers blooming outside, and plants/flowers growing inside, I have plenty of subject material to work ...

This year our Loquat tree is loaded with fruit.  Best it's been in the six years we've lived here.  Trying one yesterday, I found it...

Today was another beautiful sunny day.  Early afternoon it was 80 when I spent a little time outside with a nice slight breeze.  These everg...