I am elated to say that I believe I’m slowly waking up from this haze of a slumber by which I’ve been detained. My poor, dejected paint brushes have been rescued from the corner and the next blank canvas has been covered with an angel. He’s this gorgeous, slightly melancholy one with long locks, [...]
Archive > October 2008
I'm going all "mother-nature" on you.
I’m stumped as to why trees have been so red-light on my radar these days. I’m thinking there’s a strong, maternal presence about them and my new, maternal nose is catching wind of their scent. On one of my daily walks I stopped underneath one at the edge of the sidewalk. I looked straight up, [...]
Tuesday
It smelled like nap time outside this morning. I walked to my car at 8:00am (who am I kidding, I’m never on-time, it was probably 8:06am) and everything was still sleeping. I wanted to huddle up next to the tree near my car and nap with it under the fall sky. I haven’t painted much [...]
there's no sense here…only babble-rambles
If the risk isn’t great, the reward won’t be worth more than a saltine cracker. And not even one with jelly or cheese on top. (I’m procrastinating on the daunting, blank canvas in my make-shift studio, in case you were wondering.) Amazing that something so simple can be totally terrifying, huh? Take [...]
orange leaves and hoodies and oceans, oh my!
I hear sheet-metal clouds are in our future for most of the week next week. This makes me happy! I’ve got quite the challenge on my plate for this next piece. My mom took quite the stunning photo of the ocean when we were riding on the top of a house boat on our way back [...]