I paint with acrylics on watercolor paper, using the process of layering the paint and scratching back to reveal unique colors and textures in my paintings.
 
Lounging Pears - Some of my first paintings were of pears. I love painting pears with their lovely feminine forms and beautiful warm colors. I think beginning painters paint pears because of their easier simple forms and the universal theme of pear still lifes through art history with so many well known pear paintings. Matisse's pears come to mind. With some of my pear paintings I feel I had beginners luck, perhaps my happiness at having time to pursue my passion showed through