Posted in Everyday Sketches on March 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Just got back from a couple fine days with Mom in Stockton at her senior community. We celebrated her 88th birthday by me tackling her “to do” list - stuff like buying and planting pots of flowers for her balcony, moving stuff in and out of storage, etc. The kind of projects I [...]
Posted in Figure studio sketches on March 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
At the end of the figure session Thursday I was not up for anything very ambitious, especially when all I could see from my table was her back! So I abandoned paint, took my pencils and paper and sat on the floor at her feet to sketch body pieces willy nilly!
Posted in Figure studio sketches on March 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The basketball season wound down enough that I went to figure studio last night. Felt a bit rusty, but dove right in. I brought my gouache paints, Sumi ink and pencils and here’s some of what happened. The model, Stephanie, is a really lovely, sweet looking young woman. I wasn’t trying [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on March 20, 2007 | 4 Comments »
It wasn’t ideas I needed to get going on these paintings I’ve started. It was courage. And it arrived during meditation this morning in the form of a winged horse, ready to take me where I wanted to go, with confidence.
Acrylic, pencil, and pen on Lama Li sketchbook paper
he arrived this morning
no [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on March 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I stared at those canvases in agitation and perplexity, pacing and sitting, with and without music, leaving and returning many times. Hundreds of ideas crossed my mind, tried to find their way on, then floated away in dejection. So what is the problem? Too much freedom to express myself in whatever way [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 17, 2007 | No Comments »
Tomorrow I’ve promised myself to paint. But truly, for three or four days now I have been preoccupied with other matters, not the least of which was taxes. Todd, a photographer friend of ours, took Ben and I out on the Laguna, Ben in his kayak and Todd and his dog and I [...]
Posted in Figurative Abstracts on March 13, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Today is my birthday and I was greeted with a chorus of mockingbirds this morning, which made me want to sit outside and write poetry. But there’s these canvases and the series I promised myself I’d paint. I’ve been watching the series “The Impressionists” at the suggestion of Jana, http://janabouc.wordpress.com and getting so [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on March 10, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I keep stopping at the nursery on the way home and getting one last bareroot rose bush to plant in my garden. They’re on sale now. And leafing out. But mostly my garden still has that barren, died back winter look and I’m beginning to wonder if all those plants I cut [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on March 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Maybe all it really took was my husband saying, “Just do it! Get started.” to pull myself back from spring madness and start this series of paintings I’ve been wanting to do. Funny how suddenly, there does seem to be a little time for this. And now, two days later my studio [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on March 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I made a linoleum stamp of my little ground squirrel spirit helper, just for fun. That was the beginning of this one. Then there was this really large bubble wrap that came in a package recently. When pressed onto the wet watercolor it made these little acorn-like shapes. Did I know [...]
