A lovely surprise

How wonderful it is to find out over a cup of coffee on a quiet Sunday morning that The Little Beach Gallery in Hyannis, Ma had an awesome day yesterday!!

Seems that one couple came in an bought FOUR of my pieces at once!!! Yay!! I'm soo thrilled that they loved the work that much.

The gallery posted this pic on their FaceBook page!

Woohoo...looks like I better get filling up that wall again....quickly!!

Painting Papers

Spent a beautiful warm sunny day outside yesterday painting papers to restock my palette.

Living in New England I don't have the luxury of mild year round weather...and I would much rather paint outdoors to keep the art room clean. So, that means grabbing those great summer days as I can get them.

I took all of my rice papers, book pages, etc out with me along with watercolors, acrylics, and some twinkling H2O's for an afternoon of fun!!

Luckily I have a great glass top table that is perfect for this. I can get it wet and messy and simply clean it off with the hose. Can't do that in the art room..lol

As you can see...I got quite a bit done. Now.... I need to find more time to actually do some paper making next. I'm starting to run out of those nice hand made pieces. That too is a messy process, so I'd rather grab some outside time for that as well.

That's also fun because you end up with papers you never even dreamed of creating!! Pure inspiration!

The Jury is in.....

and the answer is YES. The newest piece....a much larger 12"x24" version similier to a very small lighthouse I'd done earlier this year, has been juried into the Little Compton Community Center Arts Show in RI.

I have to say, this is always one of those art shows that you hold your breath for each year as the jury makes its choice. They can be really tough. 

Well....I can now breathe. It's in....and the opening is Friday evening and runs through the weekend.

I can't wait to go and see what other amazing work has been included. The tough jury does make for an outstanding art show.
If you're in the area this weekend....be sure to stop in!!

I have added this pic for you to see three stages of it's developement....underpainting, mid way, and finished.

Harry & Sally

Yep...that's their names. For some reason, the moment I finished working on these two, that's what I looked at them and called them....sooo...guess that's what they wanted. Who am I to argue...lol

Well....they now have a new home!

I finished working on them the night before I was due to drop off a piece of work for the local art group show.

Today I went to the art show late this afternoon as it was ending figuring I would be picking these guys up to take home....after all, they hadn't even had a full day of living at my house yet. When I walked in I discovered that they had already found a new home to fly off to!! The couple who purchased them had let them stay in the show until the ending...so I was lucky enough to be there to meet them when they returned. What a lovely couple they were. We had a nice chat and I was able to answer all their questions about my process and point out a few tidbits in the piece to them as well.

Soo...looks like Harry & Sally will be a couple of happy birds. Guess it was all for the best that I didn't get time to bond with them :)