Piero, Fruit and pitchers (detail)

My thanks go out for nature's bounty, and for our friends, family, and home, and thanks to the makers of art, and the lovers of art. . . Happy Thanksgiving to you!

White Flowers and Butterflies (detail)

I enjoy going back to my "Dream Tables" to find smaller, simpler paintings within the complex compositions of this series. Each large still life was inspired by one vivid image--in this case, the contrast of pure white lilies against patterned black fabric-- and grew in theme and detail as I kept painting.

From the Street in Rome (detail)

I reminded my sketchbook class last weekend to look both up at the rooftops and down in the gutter for imagery when traveling, and that the artist's "found object" is everyone else's trash.

On a City Street

This painting is from my series "Wonder Road." I returned from my 2004 trip to Rajasthan (a sketching workshop I taught there organized by my friends the Dehejias) intoxicated by what I'd seen and experienced, and over the next year produced these twenty-four street scenes. I wanted them to be like glimpses caught from the window of a hurtling bus (the odd and beautiful tableaus that kept my pen moving from one end of Rajasthan to the other.) To see the "Wonder Road" series and my sketch journals, click here.