Sunlight

Sunlight behind hair - an irresistible combination!

Woof

Well, sometimes it just happens. Personality - it comes through in the strangest places. It's that intangible that artists look for, strive for, try to create. The harder you try, the more elusive it is, like trying to remember the dream you had last night. Today personality showed up in front of me. In ten little pieces of broken cereal bowl - there it is. I love this little guy. Just something about him makes me smile. I'll put in another pic when he's all grouted up.

Update - it's a She. To clarify, I added a bit of bling!

Since she did the artwork this time, I'll do the photo--of my dog as a puppy. I couldn't let a title like "woof" pass by.

ReFocus

Time to start again. It's been too long saying YES to everything for everyone else, time to say:

Still Life

After two days of posting still lives by other artists, I figured it was time to do one of my own!

I like to call it, "Still Life, With Eyes"

Movement

Another of my new postcards, this one by Samuel Peploe. I didn't intend to use another right away, but don't these tulips look like they are just flying around the room? I've had tulips with stems like this before and they do seem like they can move all on their own.

Trying to get a decent picture at a swim meet is nearly impossible - unless

you want something to illustrate, "movement." Then I have FOLDERS full of

perfect examples! Wow, they move fast.

sharp

I bought a packet of postcards yesterday by four artists known as the

"Scottish Colorists". This still life by FCB Cadell is all about "sharpness"

to me-- clean, sharp lines and angles, high contrast colors, strong white against

black edges. Beautiful.

A nice sharp knife - nothing better in the whole kitchen, except maybe salt.

Blur

Days, years, decades.....it does tend to all blur together. Exhibit A--this picture of Rachel that somehow surfaced in my studio recently. She is scowling at her lame mom trying to take her photo....and here we are 17 years later...

She still scowls for the camera 90% of the time, but this day I got a smile. Wow... that is a blur of time! (p.s. the photo's today are Mary's on the left, Martha's on the right - they just made more sense that way.)