"Me, Californian Golden Girl"

9"x12", oil on canvas panel















I love California;
the weather, spaciousness, carefreeness, ethnic mixes, all the variety it offers.....
I have been living in California for 40 years.
I feel I am a true 'Californian Golden Girl', even I am not a hotti on the boogie board at the beach.

"Are You Going to Share?"

Sydney & Lucia
7"x5", oil on gesso board


These are my puppies. Sydney is about 20 months old, male, tan color.
Lucia is female, gray. about 1 yr old, newly adopted. I thought Sydney migtht not like to be an only child. Both are Rescue Dogs. Beautiful Mutts!!
Lucia always follows Sydney and watch what he is up to.
This is my very first animal painting. I was not sure how it was going to come out. But as I was painting, I realized that the same principal of painting applies to any object.

"Blue Shadow"

Migrating Cherries
6"x6", oil on gesso board

It is so much fun to create the little stories,'Visual Poetry' ...esp. with cherries.
Here in this painting....the sun is setting, cherries has way to travel before dusk.

"My Birthday Cup Cake"

5"x7", oil on gesso board

My birthday is on July 14th. Bastille Day, France’s Independence Day in 1789 that changed France forever.
I feel like I should be in Paris watching fireworks at Eiffel Tower on my every Birthday.
My daughter and Buzz gave me a little picnic for my birthday, at the park in Old Pasadena in front of Armory Center for Art.
The cupcake they brought was so sweet and festive, perfect for summer birthday in the park.

"Life is just a Bowl of Cherries"

6"x6", oil on gesso board

Life is just a bowl of cherries;
Don't make it serious;
Life's too mysterious.
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Life is just a bowl of cherries,
Live and laugh at it all.
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'From a wonderful song from the 1930's'

"Cherry Talk"

6"x6", oil on gesso board

"Dennis"

6"x8", oil on canvas paper



This a portrait of my son, Dennis.
I did this painting for a while ago, from 5x7 photo reprint of a small group of people. How I was able to do this painting from that sort of small size of reference is because I know him very well. In the photo, Dennis is listening to a person talking. He looks not quite agreeing about the speech. I would like to try this kind of painting more for my acquaintance from my photo album. I like to paint peaple to capture the expression.

"Light Bulb" -sold

6"x6", oil on gesso board

A white light bulb is sitting on the white plastic tray with orange fabric behind.
Orange background is creating the glows in the shadow and very subtle orange tint all over the white tray, probably only visible to the painter's eye.
I would like to pass my perception to the viewers and help them enjoy this kind of plain setting quite interesting.

"On The Beach"

8"x10", oil on canvas panel

Recent Small Paintings

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