These Boots are Made for Walking (Still Life)

Teal Waterfall

Used my Lamy Safari fountain pen loaded with brown ink to do this drawing and limited color watercolor wash in my watercolor journal. Gave this one to Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Betty.

Quickie ink drawing and watercolor done sitting on the cliff above Carlsbad Beach (2017)

Aunt Betty

Oil Plein Air @ Crystal Cove - Newport Beach with Patti Slattery

Patti and I took a full day workshop at Crystal Cove. We stood on the front porch of a beach cottage where Bette Midler's 1988 movie, Beaches, was shot. Patti had never done oil before and really liked it. The instructor had easels set up and palettes, brushes, and canvas at the ready. We were painting some coastal rocks with waves crashing against them. It was a overcast coolish day and we took our lunch with us, pausing to eat at the table with the umbrella in the photo below. Very enjoyable.

Large oil painted 1999 years ago - "Carolina Moon"

I think I was channeling Thomas Kincaid when I did this!

Mom on the Back Stoop

I did this for my mom on Mother's Day as it pretty accurately represents her often standing on the back stoop when we were kids playing outside. She'd step out from the kitchen where we lived in North Carolina to cool off and watch our childhood antics.

Art Renewed

2017 

Wow, I had just started this and signed up for private art classes in Colorado Springs where we had retired. That was just 13 days before we were pulled to San Diego. Never made those classes in The Springs, but thanks to Patti Slattery, my artist soul has re-emerged here in beautiful San Diego. 

6 Years Ago

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Cheryl Banks

January 10, 2013 · 

And so it begins...the re-emergence of "Cheryl the Artist". She was asleep in Virginia but her artist-soul has been awakened by the proximity and inspiration of other artists and the beautiful Colorado vistas. Signed up for 3 classes at the best art school in The Springs, attached to the Fine Art Museum. So excited I can barely contain my joy. "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." — Pablo Picasso