11.9.08 - 70/365

where i was tonite


where i was last nite

a wonderful "inside" look

11.8.08 - 69/365

another princess

it's amazing what i am finding in those boxes that i am unpacking

and it's kind of amazing that i can make any work at all in the mess i am in


inspiration from the farm market:

11.7.08 - 68/365

thinking a lot about portraits
and self portraits
and what that all means to me

it's largely about a truth
when you take a portrait of someone else
it's your truth about them
what you see/feel
about something outside yourself

when you take a self portrait
it's about what you see in you
and the truth comes with how much of that
you are willing to share with the world


and then there's balance

(this image is a return to the abstracted reality series)

in actuality
it is the palm of my hand
but
we all know that it isn't

11.6.08 - 67/365

kind of woke up wrong today...


but,
when smudge wants to sit in my lap
no matter how hard it makes it to work
no matter how soon my legs fall asleep
i let her

11.5.08 - 66/365

for so many years now
i've hated our flag
and what it stood for
(never posting an image that had one in it)

that's over now
i am proud to be an american
i am proud of our country
proud that we finally woke up,
recognized a true leader
got off our asses
and voted to change our future

now a little story:

i got new paints today
that's always exciting
but when i started working
i didn't like the texture of some of the colors
they were too sticky
and seemed not to be properly formulated
i once had a tube like that before...
i threw it out

what a disappointment
but then,
i looked at the tubes again
and...
they were oil paints
not water colors!!!!
silly me
:p

so i made a little mixed media painting
(as well as made a mess out of my brushes)

11.4.08 - 65/365

obama & smudge see hope in our future
:)

VOTE

the lines had started by 6 am

the thing i heard over and over again was
"i never thought i'd live to see this day"

11.3.08 - 64/365

i am not very happy about the amount of stuff in my studio right now
there is just way too much of it

the bottom line is
i make a ton of work
and i am not sure how to deal with it

i have boxes of negatives
and contact sheets

i have boxes of drawings
and pieces of drawings

i have tons of paint
including some tubes that were my father's as a teenager

i have framed work
i have work on panels
i have work on stretchers
i have work taken off stretchers and rolled

i have boxes and boxes
of my daily watercolor journals

i have all the jewelry i made
and the supplies used to make it

and it's all in the middle of my painting space....


two views,
minutes apart
idealistic vs realistic
sometimes...

it might be time to let go of some things