Joan Desmond

On 3-28-2026 No Kings protests were held all over the U.S. in large cities but also in many other communities, this one is from a small mountain town in California. video by John Harte

"I DO Hope That Aliens Are Colorful Beings"

"Luscious" 20"x 16" acrylic on canvas. It's pear season!

Even though I'm well aware that I've lost the kitchen counter battle with the cats, Rosie feels the need to remind me daily. Here she is resting on the potholders.

I’ve seen signs for some time: a urine marking high on a bird feeder post; a paw print next to the water basin; scrape marks next to scat; fewer ground squirrels; and the daily irritated calls of the raven pair. Finally saw him yesterday, an adult bobcat. Older drawing" Wildcat". pencil on paper.

Transformation Mask. This is one of my earlier mixed-media drawings. My life-long interest in masks concerns the human tendency to don personality masks to hide true feelings, or negative aspects of self. There is always a hint of the hidden, no matter how benign the mask expression.

"Looking Up" colored pencil on paper.

"It's About Balance" charcoal+

"Day of the Eagle" 38"x 50". oil on canvas.

salvia is blooming

Also my life.🙃

Wildflower walk-Lupine, colored pencil on paper

Highway14 Twilight Desert Mysteries, acrylic on canvas

"Big Water on The Kern", acrylic on canvas.

An older acrylic painting of mine. "Spring Jig", because it is snowing here today, in California.

"Because men have a history, it is difficult for them to imagine what it is like to grow up without one" -Judy Chicago US artist "The Dinner Party" #InternationalWomensDay

If you have read Julia Cameron's "The Artist's Way" you know what a crazymaker is. We are now living under a "Crazy-Maker in-Chief".

©Joan Desmond, pages from my art journal 2025. Mixed Media on paper, 12″x 9″

Small collage with one of my scanned & printed drawings. 2008

Mr. Belly is a belly-rub loving chill cat, likely because he doesn't follow politics.

My Mom lived in the Netherlands during the time of Ann Frank, the time of Hitler, occupation, hate, genocide, and persecution. None of that went away, it just festered underground, and now it has been given breath again. This was published in the Spring/Summer 2000 edition of The Black Bear Review.

‪ "Memories In the Mist" mixed media collage on canvas, 30”x 24”.

Drawing, watercolor, & poem collage.

"Prevail" -charcoal on paper

"Monoliths", mixed-media collage

"Serenity In Winter", mixed-media collage

"The Desert Calls To Me", mixed-media collage