As we head into the holiday season, I'm working on a bunch of oddball experimental projects – stay tuned for a series of circular rotating paintings and clusters of PA speakers transformed into music-making floral arrangements. All the while, I'm still cranking out original artwork and prints of the phantasmagorical Ojai Valley. Check my website for available pieces – they make great gifts! Five years into my adventure of full-time artmaking, I'm loving the challenge of making new things. I'm...

What a beautiful weekend in Ojai — sunshine, art lovers, and a whole lot of good conversation. The three-day Ojai Studio Artists Open Studio Tour was a blast, and I’m deeply grateful to everyone who stopped by. Highlights included the first public showing of The Big Roundie — a seven-foot rotating landscape that spun all weekend long (among the questions asked: does it tell your fortune? is it a portal to another dimension?)— plus a table full of my illustrated journals and sketchbooks...

As a late-blooming, self-taught maker of art, I take instruction and inspiration wherever I can find it — art fairs, gallery crawls,...