He is best known as the lead guitarist, keyboardist, and backing vocalist of the rock band U2.

Watercolor painting of a cloudy day at the beach. The waves are gentle. Trees in the distance are partly obscured by fog. A person is flying a yellow kite, and birds are flying along the shore.

This is the western #Edge of California
#BlueSkyArtShow

On a bright, sunny day, the image centers on a black metal arch with 4 posts and decorative bars between two arched upper poles in the front and back. On the left, a rose bush is growing up the poles. Rose bushes are arranged in rows around a central palm tree, with yellow, white, pink, and red blooms. Trees surround the garden and cast shadows on the grass in the foreground. The walkways are grass and low hedges are planted around the edge.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Openings
This is one of the archways leading to the McKinley Rose Garden in Sacramento, CA.
Painted on a watercolor postcard.

Watercolor and ink painting with swirling, wavy lines. More pastel watercolor is visible at the top, with narrow black lines. At the bottom, the ink is more filled in with gaps to show the watercolor. Accented with gold watercolor.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Background
In this painting, I was trying to shift which aspect was the background versus the foreground.

I guess it depends on whether they mean income tax or sales tax, or property tax. I'd be willing to bet that with the first two categories, many lower income families with kids pay more than the highest earners. And to be fair, renters are where the income to pay most property tax comes from.

A placid river with large rocks and a metal bridge across it. There are two people sitting on the rocks and a goose swimming near the shore. A large American flag hangs vertically from the upper supports of the bridge.

For today's #BlueSkyArtShow #Stone theme, I'm sharing this watercolor painting of the Folsom Rainbow Bridge from Black Miners Bar.
I was conflicted about the flag, but I decided it should also apply to those of us who actually want liberty and justice for all.

Abstract watercolor painting with rounded red shapes which blend into yellow at the center intermingled with teal ribbons on a white background. In between are lines of tiny dots of the same colors

This painting is called Molten Wings. It's part of a series I called Flow, which seems right for this week's #BlueSkyArtShow #Flowing theme

Three young girls stand ankle deep in a calm river at dusk towards the right. Ripples fan out from them. The near shore is muddy, but the far side is covered in reeds. A yellow pool donut with blue and red accents rests at the edge with two boogie boards and a log. Next to the log is a pair of shoes. In the reeds across the river, a heron is watching.

What's weird is that I'm pretty sure that same floatie is in the painting I just finished.

Woman sitting in a white bubble against the left side, surrounded by darkness. She's wearing a blue dress with a skirt that has far too much fabric to be real. It folds around, and where it's possible to see the inside at the hem, it's green. She has straight hair that fans out to the right. Her hair and dress mostly fill the bubble.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Round
I found this piece again recently when I was looking for something else and realized that I hadn't taken a photo of it. It was a stylized self portrait from 20+ years ago.

Those are camellias, a very beautiful flower that looks similar to a rose. The colors can range from white to deep red, and they do not have thorns.

What program did you end up using? I know a photographer who was looking for similar software.

Abstract watercolor painting of two red and orange dragons turning their heads to look at each other with outstretched wings. The lower part of their bodies merges into a single area of red shapes. Around the dragons are swirling blue shapes.

This is my Twin Dragons painting for today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme #Two

painting of castle ruins with a cat and dragon

"New Tenants", 5"x7" watercolor / multimedia 2014

prints: tealnewcombart.etsy.com

#dragon #art #traditionalart

A tree gently twisting upwards from a manicured lawn, with all of the lower limbs trimmed, casting faint shadows on a white Victorian farmhouse.

Here's another one for the #BlueSkyArtShow today, a graceful zelkova in the yard of the Park Winters Inn in Winters, CA
Theme #wood

Watercolor painting of branches against a cloudy sky. Painted with a palette of yellow, purple, green, and red to show variation in the wood color more clearly.

#BlueSkyArtShow
This week's theme is #Wood
These are some branches I painted in 2017.

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“We had reached a saturation point”... ICE agents were “literally swarming all over the schools, day in and day out, in the morning, in the middle of the day ... on the weekends. We just decided that we couldn't even have a bigger target on our back.”

Abstract watercolor flower with a splattered pastel background. The flower is painted with intense deep red and bright yellow. The leaves are dark teal. Over the colors, there are irregular patterns in black and white.

Just finished this flower, first finished work of 2026.

Watercolor painting of hills covered in new grass. Clouds come from behind the hills on the right to hide the blue sky. The clouds reflect morning light with hints of yellow and purple.

This is a second #Cloud picture for #BlueSkyArtShow with the clouds coming over the coastal hills.
This is what January looks like in Northern California.

Watercolor painting of dramatic puffy clouds over a man-made lake. In the lower left, a silhouette of a hand points towards a circling hawk.

I love today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme #Clouds
Here's one cloud-focused painting that I called Kim's Hand. You can't see the hand without clicking to expand the picture, since it's on the far left.

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We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights.

There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us.

This is my favorite guide.

Thank you! I'm pretty sure that I only used payne's grey and cadmium yellow for this.

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Wikipedia

ICE started under George W. Bush. It was in response to 9-11.
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Watercolor painting of a snowy street at dusk. Two people are walking close together, with their shadows stretching in multiple directions from the yellow street lamps. The people appear as silhouettes against the snow.

I painted this based on a poem by my husband. I think the closeness of the figures is a counterpoint to the #Cold
#BlueSkyArtShow

Watercolor painting of a mermaid bending forward to dive further down. The water is darker at the bottom and lighter at the top. Her hair is streaky yellow-blue, and her tail is red-orange with dots indicating scales and sparkle. Her fingers are webbed, and her skin is very pale.

Today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #One
Here is one mermaid turning over under the water. This one is from years ago.

Mural with green hills and a blue sky, featuring yellow stars and dark blue silhouettes of children. At the top, a banner says "We Shine!". A river leads to the ground.

A painted river leads into a "river" of painted stones.

The painted stones continue down another side of the area.

#BlueSkyArtShow
The theme today is #Vibrant
I love intense color. Here's a mural I designed a few years ago.

Abstracted watercolor painting of California golden poppies. The flowers and leaves are outlined in black ink.

I'm definitely into the #BlueSkyArtShow theme today, which is #Vibrant

Part 1/2, preview of the open studio. It takes place between 11-4 tomorrow (Dec 21) in Concord CA. Soooo many paintings, soooo much work! This doesn’t even show the whole tent of pottery we will have. 😅 #painting #art #eastbay #bayarea

And that the real cost, adjusted for inflation, of a college education is the same now as decades ago, the difference is that now much more of that cost is placed on the individual student. Not counting for interest and fees from predatory lenders.

The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee makes the point that the dismantling of affordable college education directly coincides with greater numbers of people who were not white men accessing those resources.