Several shows coming up:

 I have a joint show with Courtney Lockhart, a ceramic artist opening on the second Friday of May. The show is entitled In Contemplation of the Sacred: Land, Air, Water. My pieces are landscapes in and around Cherokee County and Osage County in Oklahoma. I created a little booklet to go with the show featuring the written word by both my husband, Scott, ( an award winning poet ) and myself.

Another show is in Terra Rosa Gallery called Wait 5 Minutes. it will feature a couple of paintings... billowing clouds on the Osage Prairie and one of Travertine Creek in Chickasaw National Park, OK. 

And last but not least I had a piece accepted in the new magazine, Okie Modern for their April issue.

Step-by-step Rainy night Tulsa

 This didn't load the way I expected.  Start at the bottom for step by step visuals on painting a rainy night scene in Tulsa.

Since it is a night scene, begin to add darks.  You may have to build these up as you go.

Keep it loose.  block in the basics.

Vertical lines are always straight up and down. Horizontals will have a vanishing point on the top line and the bottom.

Step-by-step for this year is 12 x 12 Prairie Sky with Pretty Clouds

 This is a scene from a favorite spot on the edge of the Osage Prairie that we love to go.

Step by step cherry blossoms

A view of our city from the northwest.

 My husband and I were just coming home from swimming up at Post Oak Lodge in the Osage county of Oklahoma and we’re at the top of the hill coming down into our neighborhood and decided to take a few photographs of the sun lighting up the clouds and a few of the buildings in Tulsa