Welcome!
I have been an artist for as long as I can remember.
I started out by sketching my family as they watched tv or did other everyday things, and drawing horses for my schoolmates.
I am dedicated to realism as a painter.
I paint outdoors and from models whenever I can, and practice washes and color mixing to develop some measure of control of this difficult medium of watercolor. Part of my love for watercolor is that it can achieve such a rich luminosity and glow, thus suits itself well to portraits, flowers, and glowing skin tones.
My favorite artists are Elisabeth Vigee-LeBrun, Jessie Wilcox-Smith (a nineteenth-century illustrator), Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, and Edgar Degas.