well, I have been fearing this since we moved to the mountains....just a few minutes ago a bear passsed by our house....I had no idea though...apparently my mom, brother and husband thought I needed to be sheltered lol....so I haven't seen it myself...but the description was a tad scarey....sigh....but it wasn't hanging around, just passing through ( Read more... )

there was a great thread in ebsq that I sorts hijacked...and I got some wonderful advice from Cel ( Read more... )

today was a little boring....which is fine, I will take boring over sad any day...

I worked some more on my small painting and it might be done in one or two more sessions....
this weekend will be pretty full since my sister and mother and brother are all coming to visit....so I may not get much of a chance to post...but I am still here....

I just got a call from my sister in Orlando....an old dear friend and lover died....I just can't believe it...his name was Sanford and I have so many wonderful memories of him from the time we knew each other in the late seventies....I just can't shake this feeling of saddness ( Read more... )

well, I just finished this little painting...11" x 14".....it seemed to take very little time....I guess that's what it is like to paint small after painting large for awhile lol...

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I had a good day today! I started the little still life(too lazy to post it)and it's coming along nicely ( Read more... )

Today was kind of a blah day...it's always that way a few days after I finish a painting I really enjoyed working on....I started several new things but nothing kept my interest for long....finally I set up a small still life with fabric, a vase and a vintage asian doll...I am going to paint it on an 11x14 canvas, which is smaller than I have ( Read more... )

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I worked on the painting today for about four hours and am pretty pleased with the progress...although I am having some doubts about what I did to the sleeve on the figure on the right....now I have to do the other one's hair and figure out what kind of trompe l'oeil I want to add...I had been thinking about doing "dancing" or "floating" playing ( Read more... )