Dec 9, 2008

This is a picture that a friend put up on face book of the witch tree. I tried to capture the awe, but I didn't do it justice. However, I was really in the zone and loved doing it-it is in acrylics on canvas. I am starting to look at shape and color more than figure and making sense of things. It is a really interesting way of looking at the world-how all the parts come together to make a whole. How each part is complete in itself.

Christmas is coming and that brings up so many things. Not the least of it is how lucky I am...just to be able to express myself the way I want and to choose how and where I live. There is so much that I stop myself from doing over fear...but in this new year I will forge ahead with that which makes me happy....what makes me feel that I am fulfilling my purpose.

November 18, 2008

I may go in and do more shadow but this makes me smile. Went back to gouache on big paper--LOVED it. Next I will work on my Christmas card. I really got inspired this morning as I went to the book fair at school with my son and not only did they have books(Oh, how I love books)-but they had COFFEE-GOOD CARIBOU COFFEE-and there was this incredible book edited by Cooper Eden who I have always loved since I was very small...and it was all about the fairy tale and the golden age of illustrators. I could have died right then and there and been happy...but I didn't. It just reminded me of how I always wanted to write and illustrate books and now through the tech we have you can do it nicely on your own!!!!!!!! I can have my own library of me...what a thought.....

Thursday November

What would it be like to have no place to go or no one who wanted you? Would there be a kind of freedom. Would your definition of self be completely different. Would the attempt to make do outside of the norm be hideous or would it be surprising?? Is the way we live dictated by some silently agreed on norms that really have nothing to do with or spirit...who are we really

November 4th 2008

Well, time certainly does fly- in an effort to get ready for this art fair and sew impossible Halloween costumes I have neglected my site. But since I feel I have accomplished a lot I don't feel all that guilty. I wouldn't be me if I didn't feel a little bit of it creeping in. But I had a grand time today painting this...Depression anyone? Hmmm..why are my thoughts turning towards those times......its not all bad-its my belief in the human spirit to move onwards and upwards in spite of everything. I wanted to do it in gouache but fate stepped in-or should I say careless capping of my paints..and I had to turn to acrylic because I have dried up tubes of gouache littering my house. I discovered that I now feel I have a command of both mediums , and am comfortable in handling them both!!! YEA!!!! Hope everyone voted today and got their free Starbucks coffee!!!!

September 20, 2008

My little brothers birthday! HOORAY!!!! I am the smarter funnier one.

My friends and I are having a
Christmas boutique so I am busy thinking about cars and stuff so here is Santa-what I really wanted to do is scrooge but I realized I don't think I have EVER READ the book-just seen the millions of movies and I need to see what parts and descriptions hit me. That would be a great Christmas book for this year but it is awfully long which would be expensive to copy with picks and covers and all.....and this is what I think of while the stock market slips silently into the ether

September 29 2008
Does any one else feel unsafe?? I want to run back into old stories and dreams and stay there for awhile-it is no wonder I have been re-reading-for the 30th time-this old series of books that I loved when I was a child. They were written in the late 40's and are about this wonderful,loving family. It didn't even occur to me until this moment why I fled into the pages of my beloved comfort....so on I will go into the world of old Christmas..This is small and I think I need to do a big one so the details are easier to get at. Perhaps tomorrow I will attempt Scrooge-it is safe there, it is a comfort.

and Paul Newman dying as if the world wasn't upsetting enough!! Who is left to be the strong, determined male-someone we can look up to and emulate..horror of horrors --will I have to be one of those people now???

PS can you tell the difference??????

Sept 23, 2008

Is it Halloween or have they just heard about the financial crisis?? I don't ever remember feeling this unsafe in my life..and I have a total lack of faith in the leaders we have. It makes me sad. Today I got up and ran and did the things one does to get two kids and an absent minded husband (honey...have you seen my-insert anything you wear upon your body here-)to school and driving home I got this really icky feeling -as if nothing I do means anything.....it was just one of those things...I had an audition earlier and every one was talking about what they were in.......made me feel like I miss out-anyway I carried that gloom right with me and wouldn't you know it- couldn't find a parking spot,the cashier was a complainer and a gloom monger (apparently we should watch our kids because there are perverts and gangs and bad schools everywhere) Oh my GOD!!!! I know you attract what you think about but what if you are feeling bad about what you are thinking about and don't know how to change it. Maybe it was the angels telling me that the good news is I wasn't HER!!!! Came home and ate a salad-cause of course I also feel I am way to huge to live..but when I sat down to paint it felt so much better.......and even though I felt I had to paint SERIOUSLY today I really loved this little guy!!!