“Magic Carpet Ride” with the Oil Painters of America
Magic Carpet Ride received an Honorable Mention in the Oil Painters of America’s Online Showcase, an online fine art exhibition that will be featured in the 2025 Fall Online Showcase.
November 4, 2025
I have completed "Magic Carpet Ride", a 72" x 48" oil on canvas painting. This piece draws inspiration from Steppenwolf's 1968 song "Magic Carpet Ride". While many interpret the lyrics as referencing drug use, the song is actually about the transcendent power of music.
Jan 31, 2025
Starting with the face as I need a face to help visualize the emotion of the painting.
Updated Painting in Progress.
This painting has been a real challenge, but it's also been a great exercise for me to get back into it. I hadn’t realized that it’s been three years since I last worked on this particular painting.
I kept looking at it, redoing it, scraping off layers, and trying new approaches. Yesterday, I figured out what was wrong: the proportions! Today should be better and hopefully more satisfying. Whoever says creating art is fun must lack true insight into what controlling the narrative of art really is! I suppose I’m going through a mental block, much like what a writer or composer experiences when creating a novel or song. Sometimes it flows, and other times it’s just a mind game messing with your vision.
March 21, 2025
Finally got the face to a good point. The picture I’m working from is a bit grainy so capturing the tilt of her head took awhile. I worked on the left arm, skirt and peacock feathers, just getting proportions and colors right. Working with cool and warm colors.
Tomorrow will work on the bird then carpet and then fishnet stockings, not easy, but will be spectacular when finished.
After I’ve done a second go-around it will be close to finished.
I’m going to the desert at the end of the month for a week. By the time I return, the painting should be dry enough to do finishing details!
March 22, 2025
Today I looked at it and revised the left arm. It’s all about seeing, and I’m looking at things to close.
March 28, 2025
Worked and adding color blocks and shape to the bird carpet and hair. Will tackle it when I return for another go-around with more details. Then probably go around it again and again. Hopefully in the end it will satisfy my intentions to enter into ARC contest!
October 2, 2025
My art, “No F#’s To Give” has been selected for the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Members’ and Associates’ 2025 Art Exhibit. This is a very old women’s artist association that I belong to, located in New York. Founded in 1876!
“The judge had a very hard time choosing the accepted works and commented that the entrants showed much talent and variety.”
I went to Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco yesterday to see the Wayne Thiebaud show, “Art Comes From Art”! Posted my painting “No F#*Ks To Give” alongside his “Woman in Bath” and “Full Woman Nude”, both bathroom themes! Wayne Thiebaud’s show was about how he reinterpreted old and new European and American artworks!
Robert Warner Bag
While staying in Twentynine Palms I went to Joshua Tree, the next town over. Great one-of-a-kind stores and very unique artist and store owners! Joshua Tree is full of artists. Bought this one-of-a-kind bag, I couldn’t resist. Robert designs clothes for all the Rock Stars…fun shop!!!
I love the desert…its beauty is the polar opposite of the foothill beauty I live in now. I need them both!
These are the compositions for my paintings filled with collected costumes and props.
Waiting for their cake at this family birthday celebration. Let them have their cake and eat it too.
The queen’s floral arrangement
These are the compositions for my paintings filled with collected costumes and props. 17th-century activities: hunting, playing music, and card games.
Protecting the homeland
Courtship
Card Cheater (reference Georges de La Tour)
These are the compositions for my paintings filled with collected costumes and props. Thought I’d paint this as a Paris Vogue cover for 1776 pre-revolution war in France!
The official portrait
Marie Antoinette
Entertainment
Reading Lesson
Another beautiful Marie Antoinette dress from France. This one is smaller and will be used for a younger Marie!
Model riding Sampson the horse!
Sampson the Horse: found this guy in Grass Valley
