give a cluck

Happy new year! I don’t quite know where 2016 went (maybe somewhere in a hand basket??) but all of a … More

pick one

“pick one, / let’s have it for dinner” (hitotsu moide gohan ni shyou) This etegami features a curvaceous butternut … More

“Love is the elephant and we are the blind mice unable to understand the whole.” I painted this elephant as … More

The tulips are almost gone, their naked stems suffering the indignity of losing all their petals. Here’s one that welcomed … More

Violets are everywhere: lawns, on the side of the road, in the cracks on the sidewalk, gardens, on hiking paths. … More

I’ve been an avid follower of the Mixology Monday series, where a type of cocktail is proposed and then folks … More

A globemallow, painted from a photo taken at the Chama River Valley, near Abiquiu, New Mexico, in June. We picnicked … More

A wonderful takenoko, or bamboo shoot, which are in season right now. The words read, “Live as honestly as you … More

It’s March 30th, in Washington, DC, Sunday. And it’s raining and sleeting. This really isn’t like you, DC, but if … More

A larger format etegami done from a series of elephant photos from Flickr, I used a quotation from Dr Seuss’s … More