"Night" Oil painting on 8 x 16" panel. Copyright Lesley Spanos 2009, all rights reserved. Painting is a journey. Sometimes a really bad one where everything goes wrong, and you end up hauling your dead grandmother around on the top of your car like Chevy Chase in a National Lampoon Family...

"Oh, My Darlin'" Oil painting of a peeled Clementine on 5 x 5" panel by Lesley Spanos. ©Copyright 2009, all rights reserved. It’s that time again – Virtual Sketch Date time! I had an awesome time with last month’s challenge, so here we are again. This month’s...

"Jefferson Memorial After Dark" by Lesley Spanos. Acrylic on 5 x 5" on canvas panel. ©2009, all rights reserved. Yet another painting from Karin Jurik’s excellent “Different Strokes From Different Folks” challenge. I’ve never been to the Jefferson Memorial, and...