It was the most beautiful Summer day. The kind of summer day where time seems to slow down. I was thinking about how you perceive things that are alive, when juxtaposed with death. Painting with Leslie that day felt like praying. Made me think about this Mary Oliver poem.
July 23, 2019
Humboldt Park
in the thick warm air
wet color with you and I
a thousand greens here.
February 28, 2020
Garfield Park Conservatory
September 29, 2021
Humboldt Park
Green and Yellow Waves
Sunlight
Yellow-Green
Edges
Blue-Green
Shadows
Yellow-green
Yellow
Yellow-green
Sunlight
April 20, 2018
Garfield Park Conservatory
An Afternoon at the Beach: Pink puffy clouds, soft wind, a grassy knoll and crashing waves. A splendid afternoon with my cousin at the beach.
March 5, 2020
Boca Raton Beach
I was nervous about painting with Leslie. It’d been years since I picked up a watercolor brush. The day before, I spent three indecisive hours at the art store trying to pick out the right supplies that would match my romantic, Merchant-Ivory film notion of plein air painting. The next morning, Leslie and I met up inside the Garfield Park Conservatory. I painted, timidly so, and watched as Leslie’s brush worked swiftly and intuitively with no second-guessing, joyfully wedging shapes and color combinations into gorgeous compositions. I had recently read about “flow,” the term coined by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi to describe a heightened, immersive state of positive productivity, and I wondered if Leslie was experiencing it. After our date, I went home and made some drawings and thought, “Is this flow? How do I get to flow? Should I ask Leslie?” Flow came, eventually, once I stopped being so conscious of it. Also, chocolate helped. And thinking about the way Leslie’s brush moved.
January 16, 2019
Garfield Park Conservatory
Green green green
leaves all around.
Leslie’s brush looks soft against the page
I think I painted, using only red.
November 8, 2017
Garfield Park Conservatory
September 3, 2017
Humboldt Park
I am super grateful I had the opportunity to go paint with you in that beautiful place. It was a little bit of a kick start for me and got me interested in painting again, although I haven’t been doing much lately. But I’m looking forward to getting to do this with you again one day. Maybe even next year.
May 27, 2018
Garfield Park Conservatory
Friends
Seeing
Choices
Connected
Hats
Trees!
May 7, 2017
Hahn House
May 26, 2019
Hahn House
An indulgent, sweet reverie, a welcomed detour into meandering thoughts––a warm oasis in the midst of a cold, grey day
January 24, 2018
Garfield Park Conservatory
Representational painting colliding with abstract conversation. Warmth and kindness. No watercolor experience? Fail fast and move on. A celebration of friendship, reflection and nature.
August 23, 2018
Humboldt Park
