I’m a little obsessed with Miranda

painting a female face

That is my problem with life, I just rush through it, like I’m being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea. When I drink relaxing tea I suck it down like I’m in a contest for who can drink relaxing tea the quickest. ~Miranda July

🙂 I’m a little obsessed with Miranda right now. Do you do that? Do you get obsessed with people?  Do you Google them, and watch their films, read their books or follow their blogs with a great passion? Do you daydream about hanging out with them in person, maybe be their very best friend and confidant? I do that, A LOT. I would suck down relaxing tea with Miranda any day! It gets lonely in my studio, all alone. But, I always seem late to the party. Sometimes really late, and sometimes just a hair too late. Sigh. I’m not going to give up, tho. I just need to pay attention.

Revised painting!
I had to tone down the red around her mouth.
Acrylic portrait painting
You Cast a Spell on Me

In Your Absence
A painting I did after my mother passed away in 2010.
Revised last week. It’s a little more colorful now.
I was heavily inspired by this poem:

your absence has gone through me
like a thread through a needle.
everything i do is stitched with its color.

~ W.S. Merwin

a photo of me painting