Koi in Pond

This is my first large painting of koi on canvas (30x40) using oil medium and it took a long time.

Christmas Cards

Merry Christmas from Mary - 2009

Best Wishes from Ray & Mary - 2008

Ray painted the card and titled it - 2007

2006 Xmas greetings from Mary & Ray

2005 - fun with Xmas cards

Mystery Quilt

August 2009 my teacher Helen Hardwick and I with my mystery quilt (52x64) at Meissner Sewing & Learning Center of Folsom. Below are 5 samples from Helen's mystery quilt class:

Quilting Academy

This beautiful quilt top will be placed on my dinning room as shown here. The following are close-ups of some blocks:

This summer I took an advanced quilting class from my favorite quilting teacher, Helen Hardwick. I used 7 fabrics and made 17 blocks for this quilt (55x55) in 6 weeks. It's a fun class seeing other people' blocks developed and all very pretty.

Country Roads Quilt

I made this quilt (45x64) 3 months after my dear Ray passed away in March 2009. The pretty colors of purple-blue flowers with green-gold background and dark-green for the roads are very calming. For years Ray appreciated beautiful quilts and encouraged me to learn to make quilts. I truely believe that quilting is wonderful healing process. A necessary step in my art journey to deal with the lost of my beloved husband of 32 years.

January Feelings

Hope

An watercolor painting of the Chinese character hope - looking forward to a happy new year.