News Desk

• Daylily Dream Job:
  October 7th, 2011
  I love daylilies and this year have been helping longtime friend Stewart Oakes of Oakes Daylilies of Corryton, Tennessee. Now I am officially on board with this great family run company as a part time consultant. It's such an exciting opportunity to help them find and evaluate daylilies and to make connections with growers around the country. I even created a nice daylily of my own this season.
  
• Oil Sticks: Scrumptious Color
  October 6th, 2011
  In April I began work on a totally new and challenging project. I began making oil sticks. Oil Sticks are oil paint in a stick form. There are only several brands available now and no information on them at all, so the learning curve was very steep. I set up a little shop in a small building in our back yard and could be found out there day after day working on my formulations. It took several months to see any progress at all, but finally I began to get the hang of it. Now I feel like my sticks are so much fun to use. I am excited about them!! Stay tuned for a lot more information about my oil sticks in the coming months!!
  
• Incredible New Pastel Surface Available:
  October 5th, 2011
  I've been using multimedia artboard for a number of years. It's a great product, a tough, economical, archival surface that can handle any media including pastel. I prefer a sanded surface myself and perfected a nice pastel surface that is now available on Multimedia artboard for the first time. This pastel panel is perfect for all of the mixed media techniques that are so popular with pastel artists today. I know you will love this surface! Tell them I sent you!
  www.multimediaartboard.com