The Mother Ranch Blog

 This week my creativity is wrapped up in the art, not the words. This is my newest work!

16x40" acrylic on canvas

Here are a few of the progression:

That splatter was fun! I was covered in...

It's done! 22x28" which is the biggest canvas I've painted so far. I'm kinda thrilled with it!

And I promised that I would share a few of the stages a painting like this goes through, aka "the...

I can't believe it's been 10 years since she came home—September 12th, 2012! So cool to see how her grey coat evolves over time!

I went out to Castle Rock, CO to see her after seeing this...

Happy Saturday friends!

Wow, I got a slew of emails from you guys this week, apparently a lot of you are also “neurodiverse!” Did you know that between 30-40% of the population are...

My birthday was this past week! My Aunt Katy had a birthday dinner at her house with favorite foods and German Chocolate cake! Yum. ManChild remembered the canvases that I was looking at the week...

Happy Saturday morning!

In my Craft Your Talk class we are telling little short stories and I thought I would record them to practice getting in front of a camera to speak. Here are the ones I've...

Oooooo boy. I am "reading" (listening to the author read it through Audible actually) a book that is really speaking to me right now. It's going to be one of those that I will buy and keep in my...

Oh. My. Gawd. I have a computer bug. Literally. Look!

This is one of the teeny tiny ants that fall into my shirt and bite me. Except this one was on my computer. I went to squish it and...

I was taking Lucy for her morning walk in the forest on Tuesday when she stopped abruptly and carefully reached out her nose to smell something while her entire body was poised to leap away. I...

I was thinking about boundaries today after hanging out with a new friend who had been telling me a story about exploding in fury after being walked upon for a long time. Ugh. I totally get this. A...