An Artist Labyrinth: Ginny Stiles CZT

One thing we did before we walked Julie's labyrinth today was to have a ceremony of blessing. At the ceremony I read Mary Oliver's ...

From the name of this blog you know right on that labyrinths are a special interest of mine AND of my daughter Julie. (shown here). Julie h...

A beautiful day at the cabin. We are settling in now. The weather is still warm although a cold front is headed our way and we'll be do...

On May 19 we spent the day traveling up the old Natchez Trace. This is a national parkway (like the Blue Ridge Parkway) except that there a...

A final sketch I did on St. George was at the state park on the east end of the island. Again 100 degrees. Dunes as far as the eye can see...

Think the armpit of Florida...On the map shown here you can see that the state is wrapping slowing around and heading west toward Port St. J...

Our first stop along the way from FL to the north woods of WI was St. George Island, FL near the panhandle. The weather was close to 100 de...

It's 90 every day in central Florida right now. DON'T forget a hat! I took the photo reference for this watercolor in Key West a f...

This is my mother and me on Mother's Day in 1981. 29 years ago. The background tells me we had taken her to McHenry Illinois Country Clu...

An interpretation of a photo by Deb Ward (with her permission). 11 x 15 watercolor on 140# Arches stretched. (note that there is only one wi...

A few years ago back in S.E Wisconsin, my art league there (Lake Geneva Art Association) had in an attorney to speak about art. One of the ...

Painting # 1 from the last post will be the first choice for the Winter Garden Show entry. I am not posting it again (see last post). But...

Turns out, paintings done at the Winter Garden "Watch Art Happen" plein air event on April 10/11 are now going to be displayed in ...

I am having a lot of fun watching Rhonda Carpenter work with her Charles Reid DVDs. I am brought back immediately to how much I enjoy his ...

This is just about finished...maybe a few tweaks here and there. Scroll down for first photo of this. This photo taken indoors under artif...

This painting is about 80% complete. Background needs to go in and none of the objects is completely finished yet. I'll re-post when it...

Remember, in Ann's watercolor classes everyone paints the same thing. You trace her photo and then she paints and you paint. She is a ...

Well, it finally happened!!! The long-awaited Winter Garden Plant and Garden show!!! I was there by 8:30 a.m. and got myself set up and go...

This is partially a fantasy painting....watercolor on canvas 11 x 14. The house is real....it exists right in the middle of Mt. Dora, Flori...