Several weeks ago I met a local carver who does wonderful angels. I figured I would share them with you for Christmas. Ruta Kavaliauskiene is a skilled carver with an eye for detail. I will share photos of some work from her home. Click on the image to see more. Jonas Ramunas Laukaitis a Lithuanian [...]

Over the last few weeks I have painted the base colors on icon and prepared the chalk for gold with shellac. The icon is ready for gold. I added the gold and started trying to shade in the image. This is really much more complicated than it might seem since there is a particular style [...]

Klaipeda is cold, with a covering of snow, and we are near to the shortest day. That is another way of saying that it gets dark early. I went for a walk to photograph the lights in old town, and it was fully dark before 5. I tried to mix the lights with the traffic, [...]