Endless Geyser of Awesome

Hello Kind Reader,

Are you wondering why I haven't posted anything for awhile? I've been working on quite a large piece. I am almost done. almost. Just one tricky Papaya to go.
Meanwhile check out these great write ups I received recently! Here's a write up on Mona Llama by Archie McPhee. How awesome is that! I made it into their "Endless Geyser of Awesome."
And Laughing Squid, our SF art reviewer, choose my piece as the center piece for their article.

Mona Llama in Mona Show at Modern Eden Gallery

The Mona show is Saturday July 20th- Aug. 9th at a sweet surrealist gallery in Northbeach, SF called Modern Eden. Most months Modern Eden curates a solo show and also a group show on a theme. I painted Mona Llama for this months theme. Another respite from the LARgE and very detailed painting Im currently working on. Should be a fun show!
check out the details at:
www.moderneden.com/pages/mona

Mona Llama 14" x 10"

I'll be at the opening on Saturday the 20th! Hope to see you there!

New Watercolors from a While Back

well Kind Reader, as you might know, I have been working on some bigger pieces to court a really pretty great gallery. But sometimes I have to take a break and enjoy a piece that only asks for a few days to complete. These two watercolors were completed between the last big one and the one that currently looms on my easel. i forgot to post them. sorry.

"Ze-Bike" 6 x 9.5"
"Through the Park"5.5 x 9"

Another Even Bigger

Hedge Row
about 5' x 3'
Oil on carved Wood 

And since it is difficult to see the details on my larger paintings, especially the long horizontal/vertical ones, here are some close-ups for ya...

Deviation for A New Year!

Jungle Song
oil on wood
36" x something like 24"? Too lazy to measure...lol 
Well- it IS the first of the new year kind reader. I am embracing color! And size! My next piece will also be painted into and around an ornate frame- about 5' wide by 30" tall. fun fun fun. I am preparing bigger pieces for a gallery that only sells larger works. Hopefully they will represent me and I want to be ready with this new series of animeoples when that time comes.
Yes- glare on the piece. This year I resolve to actually hire professional photographers to properly capture my paintings! 
Not to worry, I dO plan to still paint smaller watercolors to show in the berkeley gallery and elsewhere. The large ones will take months each. yikes. And yet I look forward into settling into these larger works, like Jungle Song above, in all her glorious detail.
btw- I sold my larger piece Dream of God as well as Magnolia Dancers, and the ocean fairy house, all in the last month. Out of 2012 with a bang!

the Stitches of Spring Fall into Winter

  Stitching Autumn 55"x18"
click on picture for larger image
Yeash- Sorry Reader, this new version of Blogger doesn't have a size option for images (that I can find). You will just have to come and schedule a studio visit. I like studio visits. You dont have to buy a painting. Its just fun to sit and meet you with a cup of tea. Of course it was lovely when a lady, who saw my Tandem Hares painting in the Bohemian(a local weekly paper), scheduled a visit, and bought a large Animeople- Freed by the Flame. Did I already blog that? I'm still reeling.
Obviously I am loving our autumn. It is my favorite season. So here the red winged blackbird stitches the pomegranate tree to the sky but already her stitches come unraveled and leaves are falling. So it turns. And who is the maker? And who the destroyer? Crafty birds. ;-)
Next up and already in the works- a bigger animeople- in a very colorful palette to combat the winter greys. She will be painted into a large oval frame. Can't wait to show you!

Velocipede and Tandem Hares

 

 Well, I know I know, I am a wretchedly irregular blogger. So sorry. My youngest went off to kindergarten this fall and I wanted to really spend time with my children-savor these last precious days of innocence. I can now, whoop and holler, paint more than  two days a week. Now I can spend time progressing my career as an artist without simultaneously admiring the latest earthworadmonishing the latest indoor muddy footprint. 

 So here are two new paintings from the first two weeks of school. They are for a one night happening- the Staches and Spokes show here in Santa Rosa this coming Saturday from 3-8 PM. Its a moustach competition and bike art show. lol...and I have been wanting to paint animeoples on bikes so here you have it- Velocipede and Tandem Hares.