Coast Watcher

Well maybe not really 22.   I am pulling out my old work (for the show) and bringing it up so it looks like the same person painted it.  Putting in more detail.  Making the older paintings more realistic.  I reuse my stretcher bars, so I am restretching everything.  Because I have that option I am cropping a lot of the older paintings.  They feel so static - super centered on the canvas. I still don't know when the show is going to happen, but I said that I could be ready after this weekend…ahhhhh!  It wasn't quite dry when I took the photo - her necklace is a little shiny still, so impatient.  The Boy came by after he was done with work and we had a little impromptu dinner date.  I love spring, late night walks downtown holding hands…

Here is what I said about it and this is a small image of what it used to look like:

A package from the lovely Lisa. She gets to pick out one my soft birds. (whenever she chooses!) Trixie was most interested in the green gum. They are sooo easy to swat around the room. (plus the gum inside rattles around!) This lovely little bunny now lives on the Boy's desk. I figured he could use a little mail love from the amazing Alicia. I have tons of other packages that I have been ordering around the world. I love everything and will post over the next few weeks.
Also if you haven't seen Johanna's new quilt series, go look.  I think my favorite is 'goodbye to brooklyn' and they are on sale in Brooklyn at the Flying Saucer.  I am going to stop by this weekend and see them in person. 
We used to work together, so I got to see all the pieces that she was working on, now I have to wait like everyone else until it is on the web.

I am going to start posting more than just music underground.
I have been photographing my favorite things about the city.
One of many favorites is a late night run for ice cream.  I love that; the warm air brings that jingle.  The jingle from childhood that sends us out the sidewalk in our sleep clothes.
I only remember ice cream coming during the day though, never late night.

Where you live do you have ice cream trucks?
Does that jingle bring about memories of childhood?

hanttula is amazing - can't stop the laughter.

Exciting things happening over here. Nerve wracking too.
I have been kind of trying to show my paintings, not full force, but more like thinking about the possibility. I put an email out there and got a positive response. A possible show this summer.
Then I got an email this week, which said they would be ready for a show soon, as in as soon as I could be ready. Then I began to pace and fret and think, but yesterday I brought out a bunch of paintings that I had rolled up and began to be a little calmer. I think I have some paintings. Or rather paintings that I could make work together with the bird girls.

Late yesterday spreading everything out. Stretching some things back on the stretcher bars and breathing a little easier. Don't get me wrong I am really excited, and totally scared out of my mind. I have an art background I studied photography, but I have only been painting for two years. And really consistently painting for as long as I have been doing this painting a week thing! (I did a little look in my sections - since last September).

The birds having breakfast at spoon.

Joe there in the back, then Sparky and Audrey.  Doesn't breakfast look better at Spoon!

Joe knows since he was a fat kid that the pastries are dangerious for him.

Lovely little Audrey by the fruit and granola (maybe I should have switched her and Joe)

Because I know how tempting those chedder chive scones are - I have one every morning.