Winter Stars – acrylic portrait painting
Winter Stars
acrylic portrait painting
Girl wearing black ear muffs, a pink scarf and a black coat.
8×8 on canvas
Available at Etsy or directly through me.
acrylic portrait painting
Girl wearing black ear muffs, a pink scarf and a black coat.
8×8 on canvas
Available at Etsy or directly through me.
It was snowing earlier today, and I was sooo excited. Now, it’s pouring rain, which is great, too. I love a good stormy day, doesn’t matter if it’s rain or snow. Sunny days are so boring to me. I know..I’m weird, but I’ve been this way since I was little. I get excited every time the weather turns dark..(not tornado dark, of course. That’s too scary) I loved wearing my raincoat and boots. Still do!!
Sad Enough That It Made You Cry
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Prints are available here
Prints are available here
She’s on her way to her new home in Maine. 🙂 Some paintings are hard to let go, knowing I’ll never see them again. This is one of them. I painted her after my cat Emma died on Mother’s Day. This painting will always remind me of Emma. At least I’ll always have the photo, tho, right?
Prints are available here.
I hope you have time to check out Josh Woodward’s new song, The Dreamers.
It is so pretty. I’ve been had it on repeat for days.
Rambling on about autumn and video of Sweet Pea purring
That Look!
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We’re finally starting to have autumn like weather here this week. The high is only going to be in the 60s and low 70s, and that makes my little heart go pitter patter. YES!! My favorite kind of weather. That will make the pollen go down, and maybe, just maybe, for the first time in many many months, I’ll start to get some relief from outdoor allergies. I might be able to breathe through my nose again, stop having migraines, put the neti pot, and nose sprays away for a couple months. A girl can hope.
I can’t believe a branch of leaves on the tree outside my studio window have turned bright yellow. Usually leaves around here just turn brown, die, and fall off the trees during a good wind storm (which we’re about to have today..storms are coming). ‘Tis disheartening, coming from the northeast as I do, where the fall foliage is spectacular with all the bold colors. I’ll take a bright yellow branch of leaves, thanks!
Fly
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I take my coffee black, so I haven’t tried this, but did you know you can make your own pumpkin spice lattes at home? I know so many people who go running to Star Bucks at the first sign of fall to get pumpkin coffee. I mean lattes, of course. lol I can only guess it’s so much cheaper to make your own. I might have to try this, minus the almond milk because I’m allergic to almonds..but, it might be tasty, no? I have no idea, really. Never had one, but since the weather is changing, I’m starting to crave fall food.
I’m up early this morning. Had another horrible nightmare, woke up at 4am, and now it’s 6am, and I can’t/won’t go back to sleep. It’s gonna be a looooong day. Sweet Pea is also up, and racing and running around. omg..she is out of control this morning. She ran into the wall so hard (she’s blind..born without eyes, in case you didn’t know), I could hear her head making contact from the next room. Bam! Ow! Don’t worry, she’s okay, and it didn’t slow her down any. lol She’s a crazy fast kitty today.
Hope you enjoy a little 24 second video of Sweet Pea purring yesterday. Aww.
I’m off to get a very early start in the studio. Finished up a large painting last night. Yay! Photos later.
Throwing down some links and a new painting video
Cold Winter Day
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I’ve been working on a gimongous canvas this week, and it’s kicking my butt. I’m not making any progress. It seems like all I’m doing is wasting a lot of paint because I can’t figure out what I’m doing. Gah. I’m going around in circles. I hate when I can’t wrap my head around a painting. I think it’s time to go back to small paintings for a while. I need to think about it.
Since I’m waiting for video to upload to my youtube channel to complete this blog post, I might as well throw down some links. These are other places you can find me online. I’m on Facebook nearly every day. I have a love/hate relationship with the site, just like everyone else. I think of quitting every single day. But, I don’t. I don’t know what’s wrong with my head. Nobody really talks to me there, and I wonder every time I post why I bother, but I do.
I just started using Twitter again. I have no idea why. I don’t get Twitter. I have A LOT to say, and I can’t do it in 140 characters. People follow me, tho. You can, too.
Black Cloud Lining
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What else? Oh, Pinterest. I have to tell you, I’m very choosy about the boards I follow on Pinterest. I want to look at art, and that’s about it. Pinterest seems to be about FOOD and more FOOD, and well..I’m on a very extreme, limited diet. I have sooooo many food allergies, and Celiac Disease, which means no wheat or white flour, no rye or barley, no maltodextrin, dextrin, no gluten free food because gluten free doesn’t really mean no gluten. Gluten free means it meets the FDA regulations, but it can have a percentage of gluten in it. Gluten free also doesn’t mean wheat free. I had to learn this the hard way. I can’t even have a trace of wheat or gluten. I get violently sick. There’s also a HUGE list of other stuff I’m allergic to, and I don’t eat meat/chicken/fish/seafood of any kind..it grosses me out.
Soooo, needless to say, I don’t want to look at food on Pinterest. lol I’ve come to terms with being on a crazy restrictive diet for the rest of my life, but I don’t want to have delicious food in my face every day..especially sweets. I have a huge sweet tooth..or, used to, anyway. If you have any other interests besides food, I’ll take a look, and follow whichever boards that strike my fancy.Okay, the video has uploaded. Yay! Watch me paint this painting..
Happy PPF!!
PS: have you checked out the new book my artwork was published in yet?
Golf Sayings Wit and Wisdom has been released on Amazon.
Perm Day – portrait of three sisters
Perm Day
Painting of three women with curly locks of black hair. Original acrylic portrait painting. Messy orange background with collaged paper under the paint.
8×10 on canvas
acrylic mixed media collage portrait painting
acrylic mixed media collage portrait painting
I remember when I was a kid, my mother’s sisters would get together and give each other a perm. I loved those days. Everyone laughing, and feeling so pretty with brand new curls. I kinda (ya think?!) exaggerated the curls and poofed out their hair a bit in this painting. I think it adds humor to the piece.
Perm Day is available for purchase here.
Mother and Baby Boy and Gray Room: a poem by Wallace Stevens
9×12 acrylic figure painting
Mother and Baby Boy
Gray Room Although you sit in a room that is gray, Except for the silver Of the straw-paper, And pick At your pale white gown; Or lift one of the green beads\ Of your necklace, To let it fall; Or gaze at your green fan Printed with the red branches of a red willow; Or, with one finger, Move the leaf in the bowl–\ The leaf that has fallen from the branches of the forsythia Beside you… What is all this? I know how furiously your heart is beating.
~Wallace Stevens
I’ve been taking an online poetry class from Penn State for 5 weeks now. This is one of the poems that I really enjoyed reading. For some reason, it reminded me of this Mother and Baby Boy painting I did last year, probably because of the first line. I thought it was unusual that I dressed the mother in a long gray coat, yet there are flowers growing up along the wall. I like art that you can’t explain with words.
Speaking of poetry, I started reading about e.e. cummings the other day, and found out he died in the same hospital as I was born, in North Conway, NH. Not the same year, he passed before I was born, but to think he knew that area, and had a farm there has me in a state of awe and wonder. How did I not know this?? All these years, I’ve read his poetry, and I didn’t know we have a little town in NH in common? It makes me wonder how very little I know about anything in life. sigh.
My mother died in the same hospital three years ago. It’s a small, small world. Now I want to read everything I can get my hands on about Mr. Cummings, but my poetry class marches on quickly. I have been struggling to keep up, so I’ll have to leave e.e. for when I have more time.
On the easel this weekend
On the easel this weekend It’s 16×20, larger than I usually create. This one will take me a couple days (or more) to complete.
See My Artwork in a New Book, Golf Sayings
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