Where did January go? Holy cats! I can't believe we're on to a new month already. Looking back though, I didn't do too badly. I started listing on eBay and sold my first original painting over there (yay!). I fell 6 & a half hours short of my 90 hours/month painting goal, but between being… Continue reading Happy February!
My folks flew home yesterday after being in town for a few days so my dad could attend a conference. Since my mom is retired now, she gets to come with him on some of his business trips & his meetings in Vancouver were the perfect opportunity for us all to have a visit. My… Continue reading It’s a Family Affair
Girls Have Cooties 12X 12, acrylic on canvas prints available in my Etsy shop I finally added a boy to my series of creepy girls and I think he's become my favorite. He's not particularly happy to be hanging with the girls though. Mom's always on his case to be nicer to his sister, but… Continue reading It’s a Boy!
Bandits 8 X 10, acrylic on canvas prints available in my Etsy shop Yesterday was one of those days when a furry partner in crime would've come in handy. Since I don't have a raccoon of my very own, I settled for the next best thing - a cuddle fest with the white dog. She's… Continue reading I Think I’m Getting the Fear
Olives 8 X 8, acrylic on canvas $55 This painting of two olives is my 3rd daily painting and if I were being honest, it'd be called Motherf#cking Olives. This deceptively simple painting took me close to 8 hours to complete & I must have repainted the background a dozen times. I wanted to practice… Continue reading Daily Painting #3: Olives
Baseball 8 X 8, acrylic on canvas SOLD prints available in my Etsy shop One for the boys! I tend to paint girlie things (even the new creepy girls are still *girls*), so I figured painting something a little more masculine would be a good exercise for my daily painting project. I'm really happy with… Continue reading Daily Painting #2: Baseball
As I mentioned in my last post, I'm starting a new resolution of creating a new, small painting every day. Here's the first one, painted January 12, 2009: Whirlypop: blue 8 X 8, acrylic on canvas SOLD
One of my new year's resolutions for 2009 was sparked by Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers. A lot of people are talking about this book (as they were when Blink and Tipping Point came out) because he loves to research subjects that we hold true and flip those ideas on their heads. In Outliers, he's examining… Continue reading 10,000 Hours
After posting about my new art doll-inspired series of creepy girls the other day, I was relieved to hear back from Colleen Downs, the super talented sculptor of Loopy Boopy art dolls. As I said in my emails with Colleen, there is a line that separates being "inspired" by someone else's work and copying the… Continue reading I May Not Be Tim Gunn…
I'm already a week into 2009 & not only have I not blogged or painted, I've hardly gotten out of bed. Me and the boys came down with a wicked flu bug while we were in Seattle celebrating New Year's Eve with my sister and her family. We've been walking around like snotty, coughing zombies… Continue reading 2009 Is Kicking My Ass