Letting go is hard to do...

And so my donation to Ted E. Bear Hollow is getting ready to ship out. It's always hard to let an original piece go.

I am hoping it it is successful in bringing smiles to a few young faces.

Thanks Trisha!

There are Monsters Under the Bed!

How do you fight the monsters under your bed?

A Good Book—In color

Sometimes all it takes is a good book!

Hopscotch under the Cherry Tree—In color

Hop, hop, hop, Sky!

I help you up!

I help you up, Teddy!

But how are we going to get the picnic basket?

He loves me...

Ah...the uncertainty of love.


A triptych panel.


He loves me..
The tentative start of new love.


He loves me not...
The insecurities surrounding new love.


He Loves Me!
The joy when love is declared.

Swinging Free—Color

Happiness.

Freedom.

Love.

Blue sky.

Hop scotch under the Cherry Tree

1...2...3...4...sky?


A suggestion from Linda. I nixed it immediately but it stuck in my brain all night until the next day when I came up with a solution to make it work.

"Sky", may become "home"...but Linda swore the end word when she was growing up was sky....

I could have sworn it was "home", but I was the shy kid at recess under the tree with my nose in a book.

A good book.

A good book.

A vivid imagination.

A grassy knoll and a tree for comfort.

Travel without the suitcase.

Not sure if in the color version I will keep the castle.

"I'll save you!" in Color.

Watercolor and ink.

I like to see the sketch and final side by side.