…at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens on Tuesday for the much anticipated event with New York Times best selling author* Lisa See. Over 500 people gathered together happily paying $50 for a private tour of the new Chinese Garden, ...

…is that you have a friend as loving, thoughtful and generous as Valerie Foster Hoffman, a combination of Auntie Mame, Pearl Mesta and Mother Teressa with a big dollop of St. Francis of Assisi! Starting with the beautiful invitations Valerie sent out for the memorable...

Everyone is getting more and more creative in Shantien ‘Tom’ Chow’s calligraphy classes here in the studio. Melanie Campbell painted a calligraphic Zen ‘circle’ which is a Zen meditation and brilliantly combined it with the saying…’Drink Your Tea’! I just love it and...

When the amazingly talented and simply wonderful Molly Siple phoned with two tickets to the opera (thanks to Peter Adams) she said that she knew I’d be the most fun to go with.  And what opera is that pray tell?  Why five hours of fun and frivolity otherwise...

After four printings and six years, I was able to purchase the rights to my book ‘The Ch’i of the Brush’ from Random House.  Little did I dream that ‘self’ publishing would be so very complicated and might I add expensive.  It made me appreciate...

…are the most delightful, receptive group and doing a workshop there is the  most fun imaginable.  This time the subject was ‘Landscape’ and armed with a 39 page lesson we set forth on our journey. With our objective in mind… to finish our subject by the end...

…is a small but mighty group of artists.  Dulcie Adams, the groups vice president ‘signed me up’ when I did a presentation for the San Fernando Valley Art Assoc. It was a delight demonstrating Chinese Brush painting for them and discussing many of the concerns...

a film that distinguished filmmaker Philip Hass was to shoot in London.  The subject was the painting of Arhat’s ‘Taming the Dragon’ an early 14th century silk painting in the museum’s permanent collection that was done in the meticulous ‘Gong-bi or Palace/Court...

When I told you about the yellow bird, I did say to watch for the Ladybug.  Well, when the picture was taken I did think it was just one Ladybug.