"Girls Know The Plan For Saving The Planet"

What will it take to save our planet? Sharing our resources equitably. When we realize that we really are all one family, and we work to make sure everyone is taken care of, we will solve all our problems.
10"x 14" watercolour/gouache/ink $145. (+tax & shipping)

"Folkart Fantasy Furniture"

One of the things I do besides paint watercolours and "oils". Bill makes the cabinets, I do the wood applique and painting. These can be made to your size specifications. I think they are very fun, and they go really well with my paintings.

Me with one of the cabinets my husband and I make.

This one is called "Circus" and is set up to hold DVDs or CDs. It's a tall, skinny and very cute little cupboard. We have videos in the bottom half- you can't see it in this photo- and I've actually set up little art pieces in the shelves inside the top. You can see more at our website www.folkartfantasyfurniture.com

"Homage To Ice"

aka "Blue & White Landscape"/ "The White Candelabra"/ "Global Warming"
My mom had this really crazy, wonderful candelabra. At Christmas she'd decorate it up with strands of silver beads, Austrian glass ornaments, fresh or beaded flowers. I painted it here in blues and white, and put in the Thai vases, also my mom's, that were from a beautiful Thai restaurant that she and my dad designed and built in the '80's. They even went to Thailand to observe the architecture and interiors in person. The restaurant is still there, though the original owners went back to Thailand, and the blue and white china is all gone. The terrific architectural details that make this restaurant so special are still in tact, and hopefully they still use persimmon and lavender coloured table cloths and napkins as my mom specified. It's called the "Thai Orchid Garden", on Foothill Blvd in Pomona Calif.
Now about global warming- the glaciers are melting, as you can see in the background. Did you know that many native Alaskans are trapped in their villages? Their regular mode of transportation is by dog sled. But the ice is now too soft in many places for the dogs and sleds to go. But the water is still too solid to use boats. So the people are trapped. Global warming is certainly real to these people!
Acrylic on Canvas 36"x 27" $800.

"Southwest Landscape With Chinese Clouds"

Acrylic on Canvas 36"x 27" $1200.

"Cupcakes For Everyone"

Acrylic on Canvas 43" x 26" $800. SOLD

"Keeping The Wolves At Bay"

10"x 14" Watercolour/Gouache/Ink SOLD

"Lizard Shrine"

This is a painting of a piece I made years ago. I still like it a lot, hence my decision to paint it. The stand I made of wood, then painted it. The "shrine" part is all fabric. I did quite a few "soft" sculptures in the '70's. I made this one in 1972. At the time, it was totally new. I knew of no one else doing anything like it. This one had 2 tiny lizards I made of muslin and painted with watercolours. I put glass votive candleholders on either side, and in the middle is a saucer that I painted and filled with "offerings": some moonstones, polished shells, and some dried moss. I made several shrines, and still find it an enticing image for art.



6"x 9" Watercolour/Gouache/Ink $50. (+T & $4. Shipping)

"Cat Contemplating Next Lick" in Watercolour & Ink

7"x 7" $30. (+ T & S)

"Cat Contemplating Next Lick"

I'm painting the "oils" (yes, I'm using acrylics now, but "acrylics" doesn't sound as good) at the same time as the watercolours, and it is such a different process, it's really hard for me to switch gears and go from one to the other. The techniques are just so completely different. I enjoy more the process with the oils/acrylics, but they take so much longer, and I need to create more work- and, I do like the watercolours very much. I think what I will do now is paint the watercolours during the week, and the "oils" on weekends...I really liked painting with actual oil paint, I loved the creamy consistency, the way the paint moved on the canvas, the way it blended with the brush. But they REALLY take a long time, and I am also messy, and I'd find paint on all kinds of things I didn't want it on, plus the toxic smell, and getting it on me, and then all that turpentine to deal with...so I started using acrylic house paint. I can get the creamy consistency I like much faster- right out of the can! and they cost far less and are more environmentally friendly. The only thing I don't like as well is they dry REALLY fast- but I don't want to use any more chemicals, to slow it down, plus I am getting used to the quick dry time. It is more convenient than not, to have the fast dry time.
A lot of the watercolours I plan on using as studies for oil/acrylic paintings.
27"x 22" Acrylic on canvas $750. (+ tax, and shipping)

Framed "Contemplating Life Without Cats"

This painting you can see below unframed- My husband and I make these really fun crazily painted "folk art" frames. He does all the wood part, and I paint them. We make them so you can display things in them that are up to 1- 1/2" thick, like jewelry or baby clothes or something, and they hinge and open from the front so it's really easy to change whatever you have inside. This frame lives at somebody else's house now, and I forgot to measure it before it went away, so I'm not exactly sure how big it is, but maybe 14"x 14"? Most of the frames we make are 18"x 22", and are perfectly sized to hold a matted 10"x 14" painting. (Or a bunch of earrings and necklaces- I have 5 frames full of jewelry on the walls in our house. I'm trying to set up a blogspot for our Folkart Fantasy Furniture and frames, as well as my paintings, but I haven't got very far yet. We do have a website at www.folkartfantasyfurniture.com though) Well, I am sorry this is not a very straight photo, but it will have to do.

"Contemplating Life Without Cats"

Hmm. Contemplating life without cats. Not a pleasant thought, no matter how you look at it. Why would someone need to contemplate such a thing? I'll leave that to your imagination.
Meanwhile, we have only one cat now! Unbelievable! She is a really wonderful cat, and we do want to get her a friend, but not until we have a walled in courtyard for them. We actually tried to have Reikia be a house cat, but it didn't work. We were told that if we didn't let her out, and kept the curtains closed so she wouldn't see the wonders of outdoors, she would become afraid of going outside. I kind of forget now how it happened, but it didn't work, and though she loves to be indoors, sprawled in front of the stove, she also loves to go outdoors and makes life miserable if she's not allowed out. Well, she's nearly 7, and been going out for 6 years. We live way out in the country now (as I heard someone say recently "on the way to nowhere and out of the way from everywhere") and there are bobcats and foxes and even cougers. So we don't let her out after about 4 o'clock. I've never seen those animals around our house, but I have seen bobcats just half a mile away, and foxes a little bit farther.

7"x 7" Watercolour/Gouache/Ink SOLD

"Heart Frees Itself"

6"x 9" Watercolour/Gouache/Ink (sold)

"Feeling The Tensions Of The Times"

6"x 9" Watercolour/ Gouach/Ink $60. (+T & $4. Shipping)

"Assured All Will Be Well As Long As We Share, The Cat Relaxes"

Sharing is the way to justice is the way to peace is the way to save ourselves and our planet.





6"x 9" Watercoulour/Gouache/Ink SOLD

"Friends in Masks"

These were 2 of "my kids", from when I did daycare. Shortly after I took the photo this painting is based on, I did a big oil painting based on it, which I sold, and I've really missed it. So now I've done this small water colour of it. I want to do more watercolours based on it, and another big one. I am not really in touch with these girls anymore, though I'd like to be. I really loved the kids I took care of. Leila lives in Hawaii and does something with horses, and Alexis I have no idea where she is. They would be in their late 30's now! It's hard to believe! I am still in touch with Kelly, who is a real sweetheart, and I'm so glad I still get to know her. She lives back east. I have a photo of her as a 3 year old I want to paint. Also Aliza. I am sort of in touch with her, she is a singer with a beautiful voice, and lives with her husband in No. calif. I was 23 when I started my daycare. I had just graduated from CCAC, and I didn't have the courage to try and make a living painting. I knew someone who was making ok money as a daycare provider, (Her husband went on to produce TV shows, including "Family Ties" with Michael J. Fox.) so I figured I could do that(!) I really really wanted children, so it also satisfied (somewhat) my desire to have kids. My husband did not want kids, but they went home at 5:00, just before he got home, so that was ok. Well, it was quite an experience. As I said, I absolutely loved the kids, but dealing with the parents was another story. It was often hard to collect the money, some were consistently late picking up, or early dropping off. (Of course not all parents were difficult, and I became good friends with some of them, and still am to this day.) Bananas started around then, and they were helpful, but shortly after I quit, (I couldn't take it anymore after 3 or 4 years) Bananas helped daycare providers get it more together to make standards to avoid those problems.
[As it turned out, I had my first and only child at age 44! She was born at home, in the same house in which I had my daycare, though with my second husband, and on the second floor, which we were building onto the house while I was pregnant. In fact, it was some while before I realized I was pregnant. I had tried for so many years to get pregnant, I had given up. I figured the skipped periods were due to the stress of building the house with my husband, dad and brother, and Dad and Roger living there with us as we built.]
10"x 14" Watercolour/gouache/ink (sold)

"Resisting Temptation/Practicing Detachment"

The little girls are brave in the face of danger- dark closets, or teeth baring wolves- but they also have to be brave to resist eating yummy delicacies, or opening little packages, or picking up small, fragile flowers...Here are my daughter and niece again...
It's a fine line, painting children and having it be charming, or painting children and having it be cutsey. I have so many photos I love that I took of my day care kids, and my daughter and her cousins when they were tiny. I really want to paint a lot more of them.

10"x 14" Watercolour/gouache/ink $135. [+ tax & shipping]

"3 Brave Girls"

I came into the bedroom, and there were my daughter and 2 of her cousins hiding in the closet, in the dark, joyous and so proud of themselves for being so brave! Years before, I had a family daycare in my home. My husband was also a painter, and he did a painting of 6 wolf heads floating on his canvas, which we had up on a wall in our house. I remember the kids engaging in this same kind of bravado by running up to the wolf painting, staring at it in mock terror, then giggling and running away. They did this over and over, for months. I added the wolf painting idea to this picture of my daughter and nieces, making it more fun and more obvious than a dark old closet, and as I painted, I thought about how brave they're going to have to be to live in this world we're creating, in order for them to live fully free lives where they can grow to their full potential.


10"x 14" Watercolour/gouache/ink $145. [+ tax & shipping]

"Finally, Pisces Leaves"

We will be so relieved when the "every man for himself", "I did it by myself, so can everyone else" energy of Pisces has shifted completely out...

7"x 7" Watercolour/gouache/ink $60. + T & $4. shipping

"At the 11th Hour, The Heart Of Humanity Flowers"

6"x 9" Watercolour/gouache/ink on paper SOLD

Old work- "Birthday Party Series" done in 1973

I just ran across these gouaches I did in 1973 and thought they'd be fun to see. I used photos my mom took of some of my elementary school birthday parties from the '50's as inspiration. I still remember the name of every girl in the paintings. These were done on really cheap newsprint, which is totally yellowed and so brittle now, if they weren't framed, I think they'd be in tiny pieces. [You can also get a little feel for the architecture of our house which my dad designed and built. We moved in in late '55, right before my 5th birthday. The backyard went right to the chapparrell, then the foothills, and the mountains. It was truly beautiful. We moved when I was 12, and the next year or so the Army Corp. of Engineers built a big ugly cement channel, surrounded by chain link and barbed wire, right across the end of the yard, destroying the view, and killing all the trees as their water source was cut off. This is all part of why I couldn't wait to move north.]

New works-

"The Cat Woman Has Tea With The World Teacher and Asks Him Why He Cannot Infringe The Freewill Of The Neo-Cons"

We keep asking each other, when is it going to catch up with them? How long can they get away with this unbelievable stuff they're doing?




10"x 14" Watercolour/gouache/ink on paper $120. [+ tax and shipping]

"Learning To Control Snakes"

There are all kinds of snakes we need to learn to control at this time. I was inspired to paint this by a photo I took of a friend's studio in New Mexico many years ago. I love his wooden snakes. But there are other snakes, like those wooden guys in suits, some weilding crosses, that we also need to watch out for...

10"x 14" Watercolour/gouache/ink on paper $85. [+ tax & shipping]

"The Cat Woman Instantly Recognizes The Christ and Apologizes For All The Misinterpretations"

Wow, it worked! This is the first painting I've posted! My painting is now able to be viewed! This painting is entitled "The Cat Woman Instantly Recognises The Christ And Apologizes For All The Misinterpretations", aka "The Whole World Is One Family"
In it you can see the little girl, sitting at the food-laden table with an empty plate before her. She is sad, yet hopeful. There IS enough food to feed everyone. It is simply a matter of our will. The knife represents the Sword of Cleavage, the energy of Love. On the banner in the upper left, the fish, Pisces, is shown going out, as the energy of Pisces is leaving us now, and the energy of Aquarius is coming in- depicted on the bowl of vegetables on the table. At the right you see the sky meets the grassy cliff edge- humanity is on the brink of disaster! But all the bright colours let you know that this story WILL have a happy ending!
(double click on the painting and it will enlarge)

45"x 37" Acrylic on canvas- $8,000. [+tax...& shipping? I think you have to come here to pick it up...]

1st Day

hmm. This is the first painting I am posting. How do I do it? So far, no good. If I close this up, will I ever be able to access it again?