Here is my best gardening tip if you want a blooming, drought tolerant and low maintenance botanical paradise year round: PAINT IT! That’s right. With a mural as a backdrop to your patio or garden, there is no water usage…
Wow! It has been a bountiful year of art making! I completed 43 mural projects, 15 fine art paintings, and one “mural assist” with Girl Scout Troop 61624 at Juana Briones park. It gives me great pleasure to reflect back…
Picture an evening stroll along the Seine in Paris on your way to the opera house. A quaint bed and breakfast on the outskirts of a small town in provence surrounded by fields of lavender. After painting murals of these…
A Magnum Opus in Three Walls There was dust and noise, mud and port-a-potties. Yet this 2000 square foot wall mural was an incredibly fun project. I spent 7 weeks covering the retaining walls around an indoor play space with…
We have all survived the doomsday predictions! I hope you are not surprised. Here are some of my 2012 highlights in photos: Tropical Escape When the rain continues more than three days, I daydream of sunny, warmer climates. I was…
I am no expert in laundromats, but I would venture a guess that the new Tropicana Laundry opening in San Jose is the most impressive laundromat in the country. The investors in this new business did everything right: The location,…
This peaceful river scene is actually a collage of the clients favorite places, tied together into one cohesive image. That’s my client, Don, fly fishing on the McCloud river, and his wife Nancy creating a needlepoint creation for a grandchild.…
Imagine waking up each morning to a stadium of thundering applause – for YOU! I think we could all use a little bit more daily appreciation, and I hope that through this 4-wall baseball stadium mural, one lucky soul will now…
This morning my husband asked me, “Are you going to work today?” and I realized I did not have answer. Was I going to work? Not exactly. Do I ever? Not Really. Am I ever NOT working? Not really. I…
Honestly, folks, it just keeps getting better and better. Every project is my favorite, and my latest mural is proof of that pudding. It was so much FUN to paint a mural at my children’s school, a 60′ wall outside…