Roselawn Dr. Morgan City, LA
When all I had was my kitchen corner to paint in I could also cook dinner while I worked on a large 30 x 36 inch canvas on my easel! I young then and had a lot of energy and was eager to get this particular painting done to put in an up-coming show. It was the show...Church Grave Yard
I don’t remember where I took this photo of an old weathered church with a grave yard in the back area, but I just knew that one of my methods of using oil paints would do great for the effect that I wanted. It is an oil painting, using what my mentor called the...Kitchen Corner
In the early 1970’s we were new in town, (Morgan City. LA), in a new place, and the kids were in school and I was eager to get some painting done. All I had was the corner of my small kitchen with a window of southern light. In this photo, taken by the local...Seeing the Color of Light
My most valuable lessons where by Henry Hensche who came to the south to teach at the art school I was attending. Here I am with Henry critiquing my work. I was taught how to see the color of light, and you would think it was easy by just painting simple colored...Seeing with an Artist’s Eye
Don’t ask me how it is done, it just has to be the eye that God made for me to see like this! I look back at some of my old paintings and wonder how I did it, and am just speechless! I don’t even remember where I took this photo, but it had to be some...Other Colors
I knew how colorful California was, but when I moved to the swamp land I thought it was the ugliest part of the whole United States!  What I found out is that I could use other colors than the actual drab, dull environment. Of course, after studying with Henry...Absolute Originals
One night I was at my kitchen sink, doing the dishes, watching the evening sky and taking note on how the sky was so beautiful. The next morning I was at my painting table putting down that sky in watercolors, then when it was dry, I made up a typical swamp scene...The Old Studebaker Truck
When my husband was a kid, he used to play on this old truck in Imperial Valley, a desert area of southern California. I thought this would be a good subject for a painting so I did a watercolor of it, and it was accepted in a national exhibition in Houston TX in...Bayou Camp
Now that I have been painting for a long time, I look back at some of my works and wondered how in the world did I do what I did! I came across these two paintings with photos of the actual scene that I painted from and am amazed how I did so well with my...Recent Interview
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