21 May Dog in the window
I first saw this guy --no, not that creepy guy in the back, the cutie closer up-- in the food store parking lot way back in January or so, when windows were still grimy with salt and winter....
telling a story Tag
28 Nov Paddles to Pears
Something about pears.These pears started as paddles.No, it's OK. I know they're awful. I worked and worked and used tubes of paint trying to get this somewhere. It came from a picture that I'd taken that I liked a lot.Man, I like that picture. Those...
08 Sep First week down
School started this week.I know. I feel the same.Just before that I took some time to paint on the long weekend. This big painting had been sitting since June but I added the coral inside bits of the fish and a bit more. Done!And just...
12 Aug Crossing paths with seals
A seal swam into the swimming bay last night, much closer than usual. At first I thought it was an old grey dog, and wondered who it belonged to, but a voice at the back of my head was saying, "I don't think so." A...
13 Jul Smart
Isn't summer exquisite?I've been working very hard lately, very little time for painting.That's OK. My time will come. Have been avoiding blogging here a bit as I am supposed to be a painter and that's hard to blog when I am painting so little but...
07 Jul Critter tale
All right. It's time.A few years ago one summer night the cat who sleeps on my bed leaped on with such a big thud that it woke me up. This in itself worried some far off, sleep-dim part of my brain since she usually comes and goes...
25 Jun My flyboy
It started a few weeks ago one day when I pulled up the driveway and was greeted and treated to an explosion of song and tweets and burbling, and with that one of my swallow family announced he was back from his winter away and he had stuff...
01 Jun In the food store parking lot
Now where's she gotten to?What could be taking so long? Game's starting soon.Oh! I hope she remembers the capers.And some sausages might be nice.(With apologies for my sexist ways!)...
20 Apr Freesias and thoughts
I've been thinking a lot about painting lately. What?? Shocker! But I have a dear friend, someone who I look up to for lots and lots of reasons but one reason is that she is a very accomplished and talented artist, and lives an artist's...
29 Mar Standoff
On one side, real cat. All feisty and hopped up on spring, begging to be let outside then desperate to come back in, bombing around the house, jumping up on sills and ledges. Full of the devil.The other side. Shadow cat. Quieter, her job to...
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