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PLAY DATES FOR ADULTS…

PLAY DATES FOR ADULTS…

…just think about it…isn’t that what everyone needs? And nobody arranges one better than Vallerie Foster Hoffman.The latest hooky (sorry, excursion) was to Palm Desert to see acclaimed watercolorist Gayle Garner Roski’s amazing exhibit at the...
“I LOVE ARTISTS”…

“I LOVE ARTISTS”…

…is what I told the 80 some members of the San Fernando Valley Art Club as I began my lecture and demonstration Tuesday evening.Visual artists, writers, musicians et al have so much beauty and expression to bring forth that they desire to share it with the...
THE WOMAN WE KNOW…

THE WOMAN WE KNOW…

…is how we were identified on the waiting list at Cafe Beaujolais Saturday night. It was a long day, we were tired and wanted a relaxed delicious dinner at one of our favorite Eagle Rock spots where ‘everything truly is French, even the attitude’....
DON’T THROW THAT PAINTING AWAY…..

DON’T THROW THAT PAINTING AWAY…..

…must echo in my students dreams. It’s so ingrained that I hear them repeating it along with “you can even use it for wrapping paper if you think it’s that bad”.I feel so strongly about this principle because I know that every artist...

WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF THIS EVER HAPPENING?

I had just left the Ikebana House at the Huntington Botanical Gardens when my cell phone rang.”Nan, it’s Judy.” Judy? Judy from GRADE school in Chicago? Judy now from Iowa wintering in your Newport Beach home? That Judy? Well yes it was!”Where...

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