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  • Snowmen and Good News

    Last night’s snow was significant enough for me to shovel and ‘sticky’ enough to make a snowman. My youngest has been eagerly awaiting this day and so after breakfast we bundled up and started working. It wasn’t quite perfect packing… Continue reading

    Snowmen and Good News
  • More Self Portraits on Zoom

    This mornings zoom was an opportunity to practice more self portraits. I realized towards the end of the zoom that I hadn’t turned on the lights and the curtains were mostly closed. When I held my painting up to the… Continue reading

    More Self Portraits on Zoom
  • Ins and outs

    Today I heard from Anton that my piece, Star Stuff was accepted into the ‘Sky & Space’ Show. The opening reception is next Saturday, the 18th, and you are all invited. It’s from 1-3 in the second floor gallery, and… Continue reading

    Ins and outs
  • A good day for clay

    Today was a very busy day with me moving from one creative activity to the next. I started the day at our weekly poetry critique session. Two of the poems I presented were inspired by art I entered into Anton’s… Continue reading

    A good day for clay
  • Looking up

    Tomorrow is intake for the group show at Anton with the theme Sky & Space. Tonight I had to decide which pieces to enter so I could order the prints to be ready in the morning. Thank goodness for Walgreens.… Continue reading

    Looking up
  • Feeling Antsy

    All of a sudden today it struck me that Ants are a perfect example of teamwork and decided to make a last minute addition to my ‘My Team’ show entry. I didn’t have much time after the Palette Club meeting,… Continue reading

    Feeling Antsy
  • Team theme

    Tonight I have been working on art to enter into the My Team show. Some themed shows are easy for me to find or make work to enter, and others not so much. This is one of the latter. I… Continue reading

    Team theme
  • Playing with Reflected Light

    Today was my sister’s birthday and we went to see Wicked in honor of her special day. It’s been a while since I last saw a movie in the theater- Everything Everywhere All At Once, with my friend Brianscotte, of… Continue reading

    Playing with Reflected Light
  • Silly self portraits

    This month’s inspirational theme for my art club is self-portraits, so for this morning’s Zoom with June I played around with some silly versions of a self portrait. The first was myself as a sleepy pear. I have really been… Continue reading

    Silly self portraits
  • Sleepy Pear People

    Yay, today I was able to make another of the pear people I have been obsessed with lately. When I got to the studio this afternoon I saw that I had quite a few bisqued pieces ready to glaze, and… Continue reading

    Sleepy Pear People