The First String...

This is a new horses in water painting...big surprise! The second horse to the right is my Cadillac...he should be done tommorrow...

It has been tough, but I am slowly working up to full 8 hour workdays again. Thank you to everyone that called and have expressed concern on my health. I am almost 100 percent and feeeling better than ever.

Thanks again...

Tag, I'm it...

Well, it finally happened. I knew it would eventually but I am still caught off guard. In case you are new to the blogging world, Tagging started some time ago. Someone who reads your blog tags you and your job is to write 5 interesting things about yourself. I am not a big fan of talking about myself, so I dreaded this. So, hear goes...and watch out, you will be next...

1. I love my job. The older I get, the more rare I find this statement to be. I am so thankful for having a job that I love to get up in the morning and do. Not to say that there are some days that a Godfather marathon and bonbons seem more fun, but on the whole, I am very lucky. I think the travel and research is my favorite part. Going to wonderful places like Rome and Africa to hang out and study is too cool.

2. I have play wrestled with a black bear, been jumped on by a mountain lion and have been held captive by a lion for over 7 hours in a cage. All true, I swear.

3. I am color blind. I know, how can you be an artist and color blind...and a woman? Well, I am. I do see color, I just have trouble with certain ones, blues and greens are my worst and my perception of temperature of colors is slightly askew. I manage though and have taught myself to see what I don't actually see....? Plus, I have a husband that is very patient when I call him away from a football game and into my studio for a color consultation.

3a. I am really tired of talking about my color blindness and explaining it. So, that is all I am going to say about that.

4.Dumb one...but important to me...I just adore my friends. My time I spend with them is my best time. I love the times on the phone, the late night wine (whine) sessions, the concerts and plays we go to and most of all, just the warmth inside knowing that if I have a rough day, they are there.

5. Finally...I have posed for Norman Rockwell, got to hang out with Crosby, Stills and Nash for a while, exchanged off color jokes with Queen Latifa, drove Bill Bixby around Paramount in a golf cart just before we lost him, and ran interference between Mel Gibson and Dr Ruth at a taping of Arsenio Hall. That is kinda interesting...

That's it...now I have tagged a few of you out there, so blog away. I will be very interested to see what you say about yourselves.

Down and Out....

Well, it appears that my website is down for the count...or as my husband said to me last night, "I think it's broke". There are several reasons why it has decided to run down the curtain and join the chior invisible, none of which we have figured out yet. So please pardon the inconvience and we will whip it back into shape as soon as possible.
Until then, I will try to keep you entertained here.

The Kiss

This is Lindsey and Mulie. I took their picture in South Dakota in August of last year. This was such a special pair, I could not help but paint them. Look for their dad, Jake, to show up in paintings soon. He is truly the 'Marlboro man'.

I don't know what has happened to the way I paint, but instead of getting faster, I am getting slower and slower. You would think that when you paint for as long as I have, you would get the hang of it and be able to crank them out faster...hmmm? Well, not in my case. I paint 5 days a week, 8 hours a day and I am slower than ever!!! Is it that I am pickier, or more deliberate? Or am I just getting senile? Anyway, you may see more time between posts, but know that I am at that table working every day, weekends most of the time too...