New Hit Single This Holiday Season

I've come up with the title for this holiday season's new hit single.


My Fish Don't Know It's Christmas Time -
but I doooo...

jingle bells.
jingle bells -
gurgle, gurgle, pop...

Fee Fee Likes All The Notes, But Her Favorite Is The High Spade

#pinkcat #violin #music #whimsy 

#dream #Feefee #parmesan #Beethoven 

A few nibbles

one of the 6th grade art projects displayed just outside the classroom

this is all the snow I could get my feet into this year - saaaaad!

a Whirling Dervish shot of one of the spherical orientation sculptures i was playing with

On The Down Low -

 one of my favorite pieces of art that i spied during the Art Basel event in Miami this year. 

(I like the silhouette reflect in the background)

first parchment paper cut out - children's/ young adult authors

Hard Fry - photo play n' such

found fuschia pastel, end of book, love of birds 

i so get this!

"piacere!"

( hope your climb went well)

play, twist and muddle - forgot to tweak

Pink Flower Love n' Play

Blue

Mixed Media on Recycled Canvas

The Table is Set

For The Love of Eiffel

I love being at her foot -it's like being at the foot of a divine master...



spaciousness. bliss. Home

élégante. forte. Maison

La Tour.  "voilà!"

The Happy Pear

http://www.thehappypear.ie/

One of my favorite places... a most inspiring, living art  - Yummy in so many ways!

I hope I can live within biking distance one day!!!!

Van Gogh's Bedroom Now - Replete With Traveler's Chest and Bunny Slippers

I am a big fan of the variations of The Bedroom by Van Gogh and have been blessed to see some of the originals. This is (as are all my pieces) done from feeling rather than from looking at a picture... it captures the sweetness that his pieces take me, and I like to think of him now as being in sweet place. I don't think he got to see or experience sweetness in his life time (except perhaps through painting.)

He sure has blessed us by pointing out sweetness' unique, bright essence within his paintings...

Tea Time

When Alice Was Out The Chair And The Bass Liked To Talk Politics

From a series of my own technique I call Oil Pastel Stain (I miss having this one around... but at least I know the owner.)

Oil pastel and ink play on paper

Happy Hanukkah

Raoul Wished He Could Flamenco Instead Of Just Being A Flamingo

Penelope Bluenose returns to Crazee Burger

Wolfgang invited Penelope Bluenose to return to Crazee Burger, but this time to their new location in Old Town.

... I wonder what her favorite burger would be.

Perhaps the ostrich with lemon chive cream sauce,

a pinot grigio

on the rocks

fries

with a ribbon of smokey ketchup

she'd keep her pinky finger up

whilst dining

,

naturally

Living Art

Using what is available is an intoxicating and exciting part of the creative process – it becomes a game and adds to the enjoyment of putting together all the puzzle(ing) pieces of a work. My studio contains a range of artist quality materials to children’s nontoxic supplies, everyday items, discard-able~objects and recyclable materials. I enjoy the archival idea of preservation and standing the test of time, but I also love the freedom of impermanence mirrored in children’s art supplies.

Artist grade materials offer that safe feeling of trust, predictability and quality and the lower quality (for example: student grade, recycled and everyday materials) can be less stable, unpredictable, and will decompose and fade with time. Layering and balancing predictable with the unpredictable media offers a unique opportunity for a work to continue to live on and evolve even when the artist has finished. The work is free to live out the rest of its life so to speak, continuing to reveal its layers over time. The work is still moving, evolving, breathing - it’s still in relationship with the elements, as the elements work with the painting, assisting it in its transformation. I think this is really rich and exciting. I am in love with the process.

Mix and Play

I like to mix metaphors, perspectives, perceptions, opposites and oh yeah - media.

Discipline

My son and I in Ubud, Indonesia taking a cultural art class...

I enjoy studying technique (this has not always been the case!) purely as an exploration into a certain discipline. Afterward, I try to just forget it and trust that through the very concentrated act of interacting with the discipline it has integrated it into my awareness and abilities.

Today

I watched a cloud expand
and
some wind dance with the sky
it re-minded me of You.