carbs...

thank goodness for carbs...

noodles...especially.  

I love them...and...weirdly- I love angel hair pasta or vermicelli...but not spaghetti....spaghettini is passable...sort of...

but I'm not so much into linguini...

however....noodles broader than linguini....totally ok.    is that weird?  I'm normally not an overly picky person about things....

I suppose if I were stuck on an island...with only spaghetti as company...I wouldn't kick it off the island...

I especially like carbs...when they come in the form of potatoes...

I'm Irish after all.  

and now...I have to put down the carbs and keep cutting out cherry blossoms.  

abstract...nudes

One day....


My daughter took some cheap construction paper...and decided to just do some fun watercolor on it....just playing...

I love that she does that.


Today...

I took her fun watercolor sheet and cut it....curves....for an abstract.


I don't normally do abstracts...but the mood kinda hit me.  :)


Here it is:

maybe I'll start doing more of this... give her some watercolor paper and paint...and collaborate.  :)  

I love re-working things and building off something that is already there... it's a chance to do some cool problem solving at the same time react to something in front of me...making me expand and create.  I love taking old paintings and painting over them- interacting with the previous colors and textures and marks. 

<3 

and creativity... endless. 

water play...more nudes

today... 


more of the same.

still painting nudes and playing with different paper and such....

Here is a picture of my studio...  :)  I'm not sure what I will do when the snow starts to fly... I don't really like to paint in the house...but the kitchen table will probably be taken over....


the studio currently:

outside- a beat up ikea table...and kids running around me playing in the sun...this is a pretty awesome set up.

In this picture...

ipad and speaker for music...usually Sting...but today was all jazz....Miles Davis and John Coltrane mostly.

Watercolors...
brushes...
an Xacto knife for another project I'm also working on...cherry blossoms, of course.


And the painting today...

practice practice practice....I'm doing the same subject a few times to see how I progress and change.

and for the close ups....

I find it really cool that the layering of every dot...every color dot...builds what looks like a topo map.

:)

I love how water color dries.  

and more close ups- other side of the painting....

peace....love....
watercolors....  <3   Let the water and color play  :)

Nudes

I guess this is turning out to be the summer when I started to paint nudes more... 




Starting with a quick sketch....working from a photo of myself...hard to paint a self- portrait like this.

and then diving in....

leaving the hardest thing to paint for last.

and practicing tones...and exploring how the water and color play together.

peace...and <3 and paint....

Tenacious Ds....dandelions

One thing that I paint over and over...


Dandelions...

more specifically...the awesome white globe state of the dandelion.


When it is that perfect sphere....it is amazing...

                      and kinda death star-ish...

                                           no...but seriously...

it just kind of amazes me...all the perfect little seeds and wispy fibers capable of carrying that tiny seed so far...

freaking amazing.  

Also...dandelions are so tenacious... beautiful, tenacious, determined. Dandelions are just...inspiring.  Ya, sure....they probably irritate people who are really into perfect green yards...

but... they have a.....

                                  Tenacity... for life...for love...for happiness...

I knew there had to be some kind of universal message here.  :)   

peace and love...and dandelions...

 send out some seeds and see what happens.  spread some love.  :) 

sushi...

ahhhhhh..... sushi.

I'm thinking about opening an etsy store and selling some watercolors....maybe...

I'm trying to think if I have a funny story related to sushi.......

                     (crickets)....

                                              I guess not...   

                       (more crickets)

as always...   love.  <3

and peace....

Hearts and other shapes...

I am channeling O'Keefe today... 

this painting reminds me of her work....and her flowers...and her very fluid lines....

and...it is a lovely heart shape...and I love heart shapes.  :) 

and just for fun...

this link >  HERE <  is totally funny....and related...so go there and have a little laugh.  

and this one as well... Totally O'Keefe today... 

 I'm not sure why this was what I wanted to paint today...and for days to come...

like most painting subjects...sometimes it kinda chooses me....and 

I just went with it.  

and more....this time in blue... :) 

I'm thinking about some other colors...just because it's a really cool shape...and makes me practice cool water marks...

and....this last one...concludes this water color study...  :)   I know... I know... so sad.  

 I mean- you can never really get enough of this shape...

and now...on to the next thing...   :)   

This was such a lovely detour...but I really have to get back to my cherry blossoms...so...many....cherry blossoms to cut out.  

it's all good.  

<3