An Artist Labyrinth: Ginny Stiles CZT

This is Karen Kapell teaching her watercolor technique in Woodruff, WI today. What a nice gal and a good teacher!  She had a great group of ...

I was reading Barbara Lewis ' blog today.  Barb is from Florida too.  And as I scrolled down she was talking about garage sale artist ma...

It'll be 24 degrees tonight in the north woods of WI! YIKES. It's definitely time to move on south!   Right in the middle of our ...

I am borrowing an image from a wonderful painter named Michael Richardson from East Kent, England.   Click on his name to go to his blog wh...

I am finding I like ultramarine blue best for my silhouettes.  I also am finding I am not getting the legs long enough...a common problem.  ...

This autumn stylized acrylic painting on canvas (16 x 20) continues along.  If you look back at previous posts of this painting a few days b...

This is a sketch I did back in 06 but I thought of it today because we are planning our trip to Florida through West Virginia in hopes of ge...

I had a little time this afternoon in the studio and so I teased a little more out of this acrylic painting. I am trying not to worry about ...

Songs of Northern Wisconsin Early Autumn  It's that time now.  The last guests of the cabin season are gone. Softly the yellow leaves fa...

I'm kind of in a really different mood right now. Think Steven Quiller.  Our driving trip through Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest to...

The trip along Big Sur down to the Hearst Mansion was full of wonderful "views".  Then off up into the brown brown hills sits this...

Today I had the good fortune to paint a few hours with Jane, Diane, Ken and Florie.  All members of the North woods Outdoor Artists.  We pai...

These are two of the last 3 journal entries for the trip to California last week.  As you can see they are side by side with a map of Pebble...

18 VERY special gals gathered in Woodruff at the Community Center yesterday for a full day of talking and making some art. The focus was the...

No, really, I haven't got a clue what I am doing.  My friend, Kendra, was up for a few days and I told her that I had received some very...

This 250+ year old Monterey Cypress is a real show stopper!  And I've been told since it is a symbol of the Pebble Beach area that you a...

Looking back at these photos and sketches even makes me SMELL the salt air again.  There is no better way to "pay attention" than ...

The view from my B & B window in CA was delightful.  I sat several times on these steps and painted toward the house and gardens so the ...

The seacoast of the Pacific was endlessly fascinating to me since this was really my first good look at the western coast.  Sea going vessel...

It's one of those jewel-like days in the north woods where you hardly know what to do first: go and lay in the hammock and read that boo...