As you know, I'll be having my next art show at Matthew's Arts in Bellevue this July so the push is on to produce some new artworks for it. One of those paintings "Sunset Trail" just came out of my studio this weekend.     I'm working on another painting right now "Summer Glory 2" which is also going to be at the show and it's coming along nicely. The painting "Rachel Carson Footbridge" that you may remember me talking about in my last newsletter is dry enough for me to tackle the shadow areas on the bridge so that should be [...]

  Here we are in the middle of winter with just under two months to go. In the Pittsburgh area we haven't had a bunch of snow at once, just consistent cold and one or two inches on a regular basis. One of the nice things about being an artist is that you can do a painting to act as a reminder of the warm weather to look forward to, and that is what I did.   I finished "Sunset Trail" this past Saturday but again, winters cold is right outside my studio so I didn't want to take my camera out [...]