Pear Sketch

I did a little sketching a couple evenings ago. My fascination with the pear keeps resurfacing. I think I gravitate to the pear because it is so human in it's curves. I'd really rather be drawing the human form, but find it intimidating. Whoa! I believe we have just witnessed a creative breakthrough. I should be drawing people. I'll see what I can do about making that a less intimidating process. Any artist model wannabees out there?

Experimental Art

Just a little something I threw on a canvas this week.

Just when you thought it was safe to go in the water.

Another mermaid appears. This is actually an older piece that has been hanging on Amanda and Rob's wall for years. On a recent visit, I snapped a photo to include here. This is a watercolor on silk. I love the way you can chase the color around on the fabric and yet, it still totally has a mind of its own and the end result is whatever the painting wants to be. So much for the power of the artist. Several years ago this was my medium of choice. Not sure why all the ingredients have gone into the bins and into the cupboard. Perhaps this will inspire me to bring it all out.

Second Tomato

This is number 2 in a series of tomato paintings. Kinda strange subject matter for someone who does not eat tomatoes. But they are so ripe and voluptuous, I can't resist them as art. I still have one more tomato painting in me, so stay tuned for #3. I love these colors.

Pedestrian Art

"One warm summer evening, a most dear gentleman and I were visiting a local art gallery. The juried offerings were quite varied. Some pieces caught our attention and delight, others not so much. Some were actually quite mundane and not very exciting at all. My comrade-in-art-appreciation made the observation of the exhibits:

"It's so ... pedestrian."

His comment stuck with me as I pondered the whole idea of art being pedestrian. Before I knew it, I was obsessed with turning pedestrians into art."

Yes, I made a book. It was so much fun. I carried my camera around with me constantly and I painted, I collaged, I sketched and I wrote my first Haiku. I was rather obsessed, to say the least. The book is available for your perusal ( the first 15 pages of the 30 page book anyway) at www.blurb.com/books/793607

For Esmie, with love

This was my first painting. In light of the untimely demise of my wonderful red beetle this past spring, I have renamed this in her honor. Please forgive me, Mr. Salinger (is it plagiarism if I spell the name different? And don't add the squalor?). Esmie is greatly missed and has been replaced with a baby blue convertible VW Bug, but she will always be remembered. And I have Esmie's vase in the new car (Gypsy Rose Lee... she likes to drive with her top down!) Back to the painting. People have seen this painting hanging over my sofa for years and suddenly will realize that it is cars, not just an abstraction of my favorite color pallette.

Paper Man

This study in white is all done with paper, scissor and glue. Now that I am looking at it, it makes me want to do more of this.