Well I'm having a pretty good day! Last night the Anonymous Art Show in North Vancouver opened and this morning I woke up to two really wonderful emails from people who had purchased two of the three pieces I have in the show. Both had delightful...
I stayed up late making this last night. Isn't it fun? I learned so much doing it that when I finished it at midnight I wanted to start another but I made myself not. I'm hoping my youngest will join me in some creating. I'm...
So yesterday I gave my hair a deep treatment. (Don't stop reading!! It's not really about my hair!!!)First I washed it and got it all smelling fresh and grapefruity.Then I gifted myself a long tough workout and got my hair so sweated up there was...
I was going squirrelly so I painted this fish. A rock cod. Don't ask me why the bright orange background. Just felt like it. A teacher told me to do the opposite of what you would expect.Does he look a little worried?Excellent day of painting,...
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...
Definitely on a bit of a flower kick. That time of year....
What do you get when urging a teenager to get out into the sun and do something?I live with a sassafras.And a blue cat....
This was inspired by a bunch of cornflowers that my mom brought me a few years ago. They were such an intense blue it felt like my eyes were seeing them wrong. I toned them down a little bit for the painting because I think they would have looked...
It must be because it's spring. My head is bursting with colours and ideas. That's often the case. It's so distracting! But usually I walk around with those colours and ideas circling in my head and waiting their chance to get out. Add spring into the mix...
Yay! A day to paint!And with spring (perhaps even summer, if I wish real hard?) showing itself I'm taking a swing into flowers. These are chives.This is an echinacea flower that I painted huge before, but this time it's much smaller.I really enjoyed playing with...