This building, 2008 Washington Street, is just up the street from me. I love walking by here and imagining I called this place home. It is next door to Danielle Steele's house, the old Sprekels Mansion, and across from Lafayette Park.

I feel like my art is very safe, so I am trying to push the envelope a little. This is a place on Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco that I walk past every day. It is not the prettiest or most well composed landscape I have painted, but I wanted something that was an urban landscape in its most natural state.

Many a calorie has been gained at this delectable little seafood shack. Red's Eats is a Wiscasset, Maine staple. This place is not far from my family's summer cabin, so it is a favorite place to stop to consume part of my annual allotment of "lobstah rolls" and whoopee pies.

I enjoyed painting this work because of the candycane striped awning, the challenge of the lettering, and the people. I often avoid painting people, but I can handle painting them from the back.

I named my art business "I Was Here" because I enjoy painting the places I visit. With this painting, I had a tickle of happiness each time I pulled the painting out to work on it. I love looking at this and remembering a funny moment last summer. On a dare, my mother pretended to toss my precious lobster roll (which we waited in line a while to get) into the water. My baby nephew slept beside me in his stroller and my sister and brother-in-law broke into laughter. It was a lovely moment as the sun went down and we ate until we were full. This painting brought me back there each time I worked on it. I was here.

This is the Paul Barret Jr. Library at Rhodes College (http://www.rhodes.edu/) as seen from the Kappa Sigma house front lawn. I am a Rhodes alum, so this was a natural pick for my next watercolor subject. The library was constructed after I graduated, but I snapped the source photos for this when I was visiting for Homecoming.

1969 Rolls Royce Cornishe. Probably my last car painting for a while, but it was a fun trying something different.

People are always really surprised to hear that I often paint on planes. Whenever I fly, painting with my field watercolor kit is my favorite activity to keep me occupied. Above are two recent photos. The first is in a first class seat, and the second is in coach. It works in both!

Painting at home can be distracting. On the plane, there are never disrupting phone calls. The blackberry is off- so no emails to worry about. I don't even have to get up to get water as the flight attendants bring it to the seat. The tray table works just fine as a work space, and it cleans up easily. The cocktail napkins they pass out with the pretzels work better then a paper towel for blotting. The ipod and fancy headphones clear out the noise of the plane, and I am off in my own little world.

This is the exterior of Hop Kiln Winery in Sonoma (www.hopkilnwinery.com). I tried a different technique here- the use of watercolor pencils. I have resolved to stick with my brushes, but it was a fun experiment.