PenguinArt by Kate Garchinsky

Sometimes the walk from the parking lot can be kind of slippery.* But everyone is in their snow boots so it’s really not a problem. Some walk around the office in their ski boots, especially on powder days. Like today.* The only complaint about snow is that there isn’t enough of it, and when is [...]

This holiday, I am grateful for my family, for friends old and new, for my husband and my dog. For this new home I have come to know and love. The bitter cold mornings, iced in sugar crystals. For the blazing sunlight, with its grand entrance and memorable departure every day. For the trees who [...]

I haven’t posted to Illustration Friday in quite a while, and wouldn’t the topic, “Night,” just so happen to suit my newest little painting, “October Moonrise,” perfectly? I painted this earlier this morning using a photo I took three weeks ago as I was driving on Hwy 40 towards Fraser. Between the towns of Tabernash [...]

Before sunrise, October 28, 7:15am I won’t lie to you… starting life over in a new place is not easy. In the same way that all the newness is exciting, mysterious, breathtaking and refreshing, it is also equally strange, unfamiliar, scary, intimidating and sometimes unwelcome. This past weekend, I missed my home in Havertown alot. [...]