The Columbia Chapter Missouri Writers' Guild anthology is now on amazon.com.  One of my pictures was selected for the cover.  They used a color copy of the picture and wrapped it around the back side of the book.  You can see it on Amazon.com.  Well-Versed-Literary-Works-2012

Merry Christmas

Library series of paintings

Writer's Helps

I painted these paintings for submission to our local writers’ guild annual anthology. I hope some of them will be accepted. I took all of these pictures at our local library and then painted them in gray scales.

Library Table

The Chair

Literature Index

The Big Dictionary

Library Cart

Writer's Friend

An Open Book

Library series of paintings

I painted these paintings for submission to our local writers’ guild annual anthology. I hope some of them will be accepted. I took all of these pictures at our local library and then painted them in gray scales.


write, written, writ, wrote



Zinnia, Butterfly's Favorite

Butterfly's Favorite

This picture was taken in my garden.  The zinnias are planted behind the feathery limbs of the asparagus on the outer edge of my garden. I took the picture between a break in the asparagus as to not scare the butterfly away. I was surprised at the misty effect it gave the rest of the flowers.

Tiger Swallow Tail Butterfly

The Perfect Lunch

I just finished this painting this afternoon.

Celebrating Creativity

Flavor of Fragrent Food



 This is the third of three of my paintings in the Celebrating Creativity Exhibit.

Celebrating Creativity

Essence of Morning Dew



 This is the second of three of my paintings in the Celebrating Creativity Exhibit.

Missouri Artisans Association/ Best of Missouri Hands

Color of Midday Heat





Looking forward to the Meet the Artist Reception for the Celebrating Creativity Exhibit in the Mildred M. Cox Gallery, Fulton, MO!  This is one of three paintings that I have in the show.





Hint Fiction - Columbia Art League Art Show

This picture of mine was one of the pictures that sold this week as mentioned in the article below.  Robert Swartwood's book, Hint Fiction, was used by the artists to create their art based on one of the short stories.  The story that I selected was "Breaking Labor News."

Columbia Art League

Four more works in Hint Fiction sold today - to the authors of the stories! Thanks to Robert Swartwood for sending pics of the artworks to their corresponding authors. Columbia artists' work will be winging their way to Irvine, CA; Sarasota, Fl and Princeton, NJ. Columbia artists rock the house.

Goldenrod

The Goldenrod are beautiful this fall. 

Life's a Hudson, and You're a Chevy

The following is a quote from today's Columbia Tribune, Columbia, MO, talking about the art that Jim and I do together.

...SPOUSES PEEL BACK PAGES


Perhaps a more “obvious” collaboration, the pairing of Jim Coffman’s poetry and wife Jan Coffman’s digital watercolors, comes across as no less engaging. His verse evokes youthful memories of freedom; her creations —derived from actual photographs that are shaped and transformed using software and a stylus — represent the means of that freedom in pictures as vivid as the ones he painted with his words...