My Dad, a beautiful soul who will be so missed.

My Dad, a beautiful soul who will be so missed.

Early in the morning on October 11 my father took his last breath before passing away peacefully with me, my mom and my brother right there with him. He had been at home in hospice after being hospitalized and diagnosed with acute leukemia just a few weeks prior. For...
A Sweet Commission & Spring Blossoms

A Sweet Commission & Spring Blossoms

To start off, I got GREAT news from Scotland! Eight of the eleven commissioned paintings I sent over in March sold at Kate Durran’s piano concerts, along with a pile of notecards! She will have more concerts of the Bach Toccatas, so I am leaving the remaining...
Paintings for a Scottish Pianist’s Concert Series

Paintings for a Scottish Pianist’s Concert Series

I just finished a series of eleven paintings for the Scottish pianist Kate Durran so she can have them at her 2022 concert series in Scotland and England. I first encountered Kate in 2009 for the Ruckert Lieder series, as I explained in my last post. That time I just...
Winter 2 Classes & Painting to Music

Winter 2 Classes & Painting to Music

The Winter 2 Session of classes is open for registration, and I’ve gotten a couple of reports of OPAL’s registration website being a little buggy. The bugs have been fixed, but if you attempt to register and you get a notice that classes are closed, please...
Finding Good, No Matter What

Finding Good, No Matter What

I had a phone conversation the other day with one of my mixed media students, and what I thought was going to be an informal art consultation sort of phone call, took a sharp turn almost immediately. He had just returned from a long trip overseas to spend a month with...
Wishing you a peaceful & happy Christmas

Wishing you a peaceful & happy Christmas

I came downstairs to get coffee at 6:30 this morning, and caught this peaceful scene of Mango hanging out by the Christmas tree and couldn’t resist taking a photo. Serene is not I word I normally associate with this cat, and the tree does not have any ornaments...