Fun with caterpillar designs…

January 12, 2016

This past summer I was fortunate enough to find several different types of caterpillars and these two instantly made me …

Peoria art exhibit invitation…

January 7, 2016

I’m excited to be traveling down to Peoria this Saturday to attend an artists’ reception with Peggy West as we …

December 14, 2015

After sketching old Chinese jade cicadas at the Field Museum last week (see previous post), I was inspired to sculpt …

November 3, 2015

It’s time to work on the bees! After making three bees whose legs ended up being too short to attach …

October 20, 2015

For the past three years I’ve been see-sawing back and forth between painting and polymer clay. After expressing this frustration …

July 9, 2015

I’m excited to announce that my jewelry will be on display at the Downers Grove Public Library from July 6 …

June 25, 2015

The male ebony jewelwing damselfly is an iridescent beauty, fluttering slowly along forest streams, defending its territory, whether a blade …

March 5, 2015

Lichens are an interesting combination of fungi and alga that symbiotically partner to make something more than either one separately. …