This was my very first fully-executed watercolor painting.For Christmas, 2000, my husband came home with armloads of art supplies as a gift for me. He said he was tired of hearing complain that I...
Children's Books
Fast Food Web
Remember learning about food chains? Today environmental scientists talk in terms of the “food web,” a complex interaction of sunlight, microbes, plants, prey and predators exchanging energy at many...
Mermaid Tales
Remember your school definitions? A mammal is a warm-blooded higher vertebrate that nourishes its young with milk secreted by mammary glands and has skin usually covered with hair. Well-known marine...
Chameleon
Some paintings are just for fun, and this one certainly was fun. I love chameleons, don’t you? And I adore big funny bugs. So what could be more fun than a chameleon eating a big, funny bug?...
Auntie Wears Pink When She Flies
You think it takes a village to raise a child? Auntie can do it all by herself. With no kids of her own, she loves every kid she see…latch-key kids, single-parent kids, abused kids, lonely...
Desert Princess
I lived in Iran during my high school years. Things were a little different for Americans during the time of the Shah than they are now. I’m so sorry that current politics keep our people...
Swing Into the Present
When I was a kid, I loved going to the playground and taking endless turns on the merry-go-round. I liked the way it felt to be at the center of the vortex and have everything around me become a...