My Brooklyn Backyard has a comforting, stoic side to it. During the spring/summer growing season, I have taken to making impromptu bouquets from single stems of blossoms and leaves that…
Bob Ross-inspired alternate title: Happy Accidents. It is not often that I take out a full sheet of Arches and begin flinging paint around, but that’s what I decided to…
My front yard garden is filled with non-stop excitement. Perennial star-gazer lilies and Black-eyed Susan Rudbeckia take over my small front garden in July and August. I love watching people…
April amid the cherry trees is splendid here. This is the second painting that I have done this season from April at Central Park’s Conservatory Gardens. If you’ve been fortunate…
I love sitting in the shade of a well-cared-for garden How fortunate to be able to visit Central Park’s Conservatory Gardens once again. A year ago I could only look…
These are quite like big snowflakes against the blue sky. I began painting this back in early March when it was still snowy and freezing out. I took my time…
I’ve been visiting for years, but never after a snowfall. There is an entrance to historic Green-Wood Cemetery a couple of blocks from my house. During this time of COVID…
Oh the things I see in my neighborhood. I came across this bright red ivy overflowing on iron fencing in front of the beautiful mansion along Prospect Park West in…
I’m looking at the New York City skyline through photographs only. My friend Basia has been biking and walking around NYC and I have been admiring her wandering, observant photographs.…
I was searching for one thing and found something else. This damn pandemic. In normal times I would have numerous ways to find inspiration for my paintings—botanic gardens, public spaces,…
