I paint with watercolors, with oil, and digitally using a Cintiq drawing table with Photoshop. I love it all, and have no favorite method.
I am in love with beauty, color, animals, and humor.
I have been an artist for as long as I can remember. This is me in front of my easel as a child. Even then I was painting animals.
I painted watercolors for many years, but recently have begun using oils again. I also love to use Photoshop and a Cintiq drawing table, which is so much fun.
Cats I have known and very much loved.
They are such unique individuals, each with their own energy.
My Charlie, on a summer evening. He lived to age 17.
I miss him so much.
My old friend Pepper, coming to say hi to me.
She passed away at the age of 18.
Ginger likes to communicate telepathically.
Baby Penny, in my lap while I sit at the computer. She had a terrible genetic arthritis condition and only lived for nine years, my heart was broken.
I named my childhood cat Bimbo. I didn't know what the word meant, I just liked the sound of it.
He was my constant companion for nineteen years.
I miss you forever, Bimbo
For about ten years, I used to fly hang gliders for fun. It was a big part of my life, and taught me so much, especially about fear and self-reliance.
Me launching my Comet glider from the south side of Dog Mountain, Riffe Lake, near Morton, WA
Me launching my Profil glider from Tiger Mountain, Issaquah, WA
Everyone getting set up on top of Chelan Butte, WA for an annual hang gliding XC (cross country) flight competition.
This was my first launch at Mingus Mountain, near Jerome, Arizona, learning to fly.
Note the glider already in the air above me.
