first of all…no baby yet, but crossing our fingers for soon.
{wednesday is our due date}

to pass the time I have been re-working some older painting.
the first one for an auction for an auction in San Luis Obispo for the Cal Poly art department.

this is what it looks like now & what it looked like then.
{she is more realistic & a bit more blue & I made it a little smaller- it was 36" x 24" & now it is 20" x 30"}

I am going to be doing a small series of water girls…something that I can work at on my desk instead of larger canvases for awhile.

my fluffy helper… 

I also reworked an older painting for the babies room.

then it was a much larger painting, but the personalities of the geese were my favorite part,
so I made it 10" x 30" instead of 30" x 30" to highlight the geese.
{I love the the guy in the center, while the boy is a fan of the second one from the right}

Hopefully the next post will be the information on the birth of the little one. Fingers crossed everyone! 

trust
acrylic on board
approx 5" x 8"

i knew pretty early on what i wanted to paint for johanna's word. but I wasn't sure how, or rather from what sort of perspective I wanted to approach it. Then as I got down to the wire I realized it would be a fabulous word to end with. you can see all the words together here.
This project has at times been much harder than I expected, but I feel so amazing to finish it.
I look forward to seeing what happens next with my paintings.

I want to say thank everyone for giving me words…for playing along with me.

trust was a great word for the next and new chapter in my life.

trust this next and major change that is coming.

trust that not taking a huge art opportunity gig is alright, because when I am honest with myself I know that I am not ready for it.

trust that we are going to be great parents and we'll make mistakes but as long as there is love in the house everything will turn out alright.

two weeks or sooner.
check out this photo {my belly over the weekend}
we have the house at a state of constant readiness…bags pack, apartment clean, supplies in the cupboards for when guests come. 

behavior
5 1/2" x 4"
acrylic on board

It was down to the wire with this word, {I actually was going in a totally different direction} when I was hanging out with a friend and she was talking about her daughter pretending she was a robot. And something clicked. One the fact that I love painting robots & two what a great behavior…robot behavior.

so there it is, Mary's word
behavior!

only one left to go….feels so good to be so close to the end.
I really wanted to finish before the little one comes.

we have a little over two weeks to wait.
I really want to meet the little person inside of me.
So strange to think that there is a little person inside of me.

hepcat
5 1/2" x 4"
acrylic on board

you can't be a hepcat with out a girl in a bunny mask and a porkpie hat & a super long tail.
ash's word gave me a bit of trouble until I stopped taking the word so seriously & just went for it.
it gives me a giggle.
{for some reason I started the sketch from the bottom. her feet. I normally start with a face, but I knew I wanted to go with the bunny mask, so this word I guess became all about going for it. I like that her proportions are wonky from starting with the feet.}

and even though it is in my house I love this tree coat rack the boy & I painted

our hospital bag is packed & waiting by the door. 

hum
5 1/2" x 4"
acrylic on board

We are down here near the end of the words.
For some reason when I got gracia's word hum I thought of a siren.
Of mythology…like the siren's of the sea.
& I wondered if a siren just hummed whether or not it would attract fish. As opposed to singing and attracting the sailor's on ships. And my sketches went though a bunch of different variations until I got to what you see above. I just really wanted to paint a girl with the goggles too. So I added them to my humming siren. 

three weeks or less if baby is going to join the world on the due date. wow.
three words left: one painted, one sketched onto the base, and one needs a bit more work on the sketch…