Live, Draw, Paint

It was warmer today, and we're in the last week of February.   It's a miracle with promises of tulips around the corner.

Hey all!  My "About Me" says I talk about food on this blog, but I've decided to stick to art and/or art inspiration on livedr...

Being a fan of celebrating the loveliness of little things in life, you'll understand why I am equally in love with this sweet video I ...

Driving home a new way tonight, I saw a wondrous sight.  Three deer crossing the road in front of me.  Such a beautiful gift from nature set...

Goodbye, Philip Levine, Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner, and champion of the working class. Quote from interview with the Paris Re...

Falling Hearts 8" x 10" 140 lb. cold press watercolor paper Acrylic, gouache, ink

Annie Lennox SHUT it DOWN!  This woman had the entire Grammy's audience in the palm of her hand.  Hozier was lovin' it, too!  Here i...

The grey skies have got me down.  This song by The Raconteurs got me out of it. Listen, I ALWAYS have music playing.  I don't just pos...

Smudge Ink and Charcoal

I've been reading Jack Kerouac's The Haunted Life .  Did you know that Kerouac thought that he had possibly lost the manuscript in a...

Transcontinental Baby and Dog 16" x 20" I think you can actually see the shimmer in the background and the textured clou...

Floating Features I wanted to keep this loose, off-center--to allow the eyes and the mind to fill in curves and angles. To see so...

Hey out there, are you joining in on The Brooklyn Art Library's Sketchbook Project for 2015?  This time around, my theme is "Ladde...

HBO has been rerunning, "Walk the Line" this past week.  That movie is so fantastic--I had forgotten how much so.  It's one of...

Last December my friends, Lanie and John, encouraged me to send a postcard into NYC's "Postcards From The Edge," a benefit for...

I was thinking of calling this "Rum and Coke."  Or even better, "She's Got the Jack" (Jack, Jack, Jack).  Hmm.  Well...

This idea came from the following: I was watching an interview between Johnny Depp and David Letterman last night on YouTube. Depp was ta...

Safer in the Bud

Do you know the song, "Chicken in the Corn" made famous by Jamaican Reggae singer Brushy One String (Andrew Chin)?  I came across ...

   Meet the dreamy, beautiful, edgy work of Dreama Johnson Kattenbraker .  I met Dreama back in '97 or '99 at the Naperville Ri...

Sternum of a Person twirling and swirling smearing of paste clearly bringing forth the sternum of a person

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I meant to post this last night, but I was tired!  Well, I was just talking about how much I love eyes in my post on ceramic artist Cory McC...