Studio Life

If you ever dreamed of walking into a shop and seeing your artwork on a card, cap or candle, but didn’t know where to begin, this is the book for you! My friend, Ronnie Walter, has written an excellent “how-to” or sometimes “how-not-to” book that will inspire you to just do it. Ronnie is an artist and writer and has

Another segment from a fledgling gardener, who grew up in West Texas, land of high skies and little foliage. Our apologies. After bragging so much about our amazing Pride of Barbados in the last blog post, our beautiful Plumbago’s feelings were a little bit hurt.  What were we thinking?  She bloomed every bit as proudly as our Pride, but her

Another segment from a fledgling gardener, who grew up in West Texas, land of high skies and little foliage. After a very hot, dry summer here in Austin, it finally rained … real rain. There were only a couple of short summer showers, but even those seemed to stop about two blocks away from our yard. We could smell it.

If you are like we are, you love to see the sketches that artists make just for fun. The folks at C.R. Gibson enjoy seeing their artists’ week-end work, too, and have posted many wonderful examples on their Instagram pages and blog.  AND, they just happen to make some excellent journals under their Markings brand for all that mark-making. The pages

I was zipping up the stairway to the studio, when I spied with my little eye this tiny, fluffy, feathered package of chartreuse. Of course, I had to turn on my heel, and run outside to try to capture him/her on film. Fortunately, I can walk directly onto my roof. (The fact that I can do that is, in fact,