Spotted: Paintings that sing of autumn

Nancy Eckels, an artist who is participating in this weekend’s sidewalk arts festival on Santa Cruz Avenue, began painting 10 years ago. It was a transition from another creative career, directing the daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. Now she says her “mission is to make the viewer fall in love with her paintings by sharing her emotions, drawing them in and engulfing their experience with feeling…” This is the last day of the the art show, which closes at 5:00 pm.