paintings
Each of Joy’s paintings is a story. Keep reading to learn about the day or event the painting is depicting, and some of the challenges in creating the finished painting.
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Before the speedboaters and jet skiers wake up, I drag my $98 inflatable kayak to the pier, load it with a book and a thermos of coffee and row out on a still lake. It’s from that vantage point on the lake that I see a dark palette of redwoods, and cabins made of redwood,…
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When my daughter was little, she was given a school assignment to write about her favorite place to go on vacation, and she wrote, “Ohio.” Her teacher assumed she had tried to write “Oahu,” and corrected her. My Northern California kids love the West Coast for all the reasons I do: hiking in the Sierra…
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We have a neighbor: Rosemarie. If there’s a knock on the door in early July, there will probably be an overflowing bowl of apricots behind that knock. When her fruit tree overflows, neighbors reap the rewards. I set out to paint the apricots and began by asking myself: what makes an apricot an apricot? I…
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Yosemite is as advertised in every single way. The Tunnel View entrance into Yosemite Valley frames the first glimpse of Half Dome like an Ansel Adams photograph and everywhere you look is a postcard. Spring and Summer get most of the accolades, but Fall and Winter are very pretty and mostly free of crowds. This…
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This holiday season was different. First year as empty-nesters. First year without my mom. Kids home from college and the 30-year-old furnace dies on the cusp on Christmas Eve. Bats in the belfry (what we’re calling our garage these days). But. . .lots of beauty, too. Kids who made the best of a cold house,…
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