LARGE 24 x 24 PAINTING!!!

Whew..I almost had my butt kicked by this one..LOL. Sometimes abstract can be so hard!! I finally finished it with the lotus flowers..I kept knowing that something was missing, and couldn't figure out WHAT...Glad that ordeal is OVER..hahahah.

Nothing much going on here...cabin fever is setting in..come on March 26--I need a road trip!!
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A FIRE and AN ELEPHANT!!

Well..I took a day off..and then yesterday, I painted this..so I am a slacker..LOL. The elephant is 12 x 24, and sold within minutes of posting..Thank you!! (You know who you are!).

Last night, I walked out on the porch, and stood a few moments..and when I turned around--saw that a house down the street was on fire (probably about 1/4 of mile down the road. I screamed "Oh My GOD!!" so loud that Nature Boy, who was putting a hanger on the back of a painting, literally TOSSED the painting...and came running. ( I didn't know he could move that fast!) LOL.  I called 9-1-1..(they had already been notified), but better safe than sorry. We stood out there and watched this HUGE fire for about an hour. They cut the electricity in our neighborhood, so there was no sense in going inside. We knew that no one lived in the house...so we just stood out there and watched it. This morning, I got up and drove down there to see which house it was. I have to say that our volunteer fire department is WONDERFUL, because a large house burnt, and the two on either side of it (close together) did not look like they had any damage at all. Most of the houses on this road are far apart, but these 3 are really close..maybe a few feet  between them. (I am guessing that one person probably owns all 3???) I don't really know because I don't know the people on that end of the street. But anyway--no one lived in the big house--even though it was a nice house, so...at least no one is homeless this morning, and it's not THAT tragic or anything. (Not being cold about it, but, you know...realistic about the situation).

Well, that was my little bit of excitement for the week. LOL. In one week and one day, we will be leaving for our first show this year. I am a nervous wreck..(always am)..but, at least I'll finally have something to blog about...hahahah.

I think today I might attempt something that has been ping-ponging around in my head for a while now. Nature Boy made me some 3 foot x 4 foot wood panels with cradled 2" sides..and I couldn't figure out what to paint that large. I think I am going to do a journal page painting..

Something like one of these (some old journal pages), except the entire thing will be hand-painted...and it'll be MEGA HUGE..Of course--I don't know if it'll work or not..or if I will get bored with it before I finish it..but, what the heck..anyway..
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BUSY BUSY BUSY WEEKEND!! HAPPY MONDAY MORNING!!

Well..I certainly had a very productive weekend! I hope it went as well for all of you!! I painted yesterday from 10 am -- past midnight..I then played on the computer until 3am..then went to bed. I woke up 3 hours later..and here I sit..I am going back to bed...as soon as I finish this post.

I have been praying for Japan, and it's people. I have watched 20+ videos of the tsunami hitting them..and praying. It's so strange to see water doing damage of that magnitude. I have lived in Florida all of my life (until I met Nature Boy online about 10 years ago..), and I have seen what Mother Nature can do as far as damage. I have never seen damage like the Japan videos. The first ones that I saw..I sat there and saw water with a lot of debris..it was just washing over fields, and I said to myself..that doesn't look TOO bad..then, I realized that the "debris" was cars and houses, burning buildings, ships...and the depth of  water, and the severity of it all hit my brain. What shocked me the most was that 1. There were no people in the water, and 2. There were people standing on rooftops, and watching it all. Can you imagine..standing on a building, and watching all of that go on 15 feet below you.

Ok..I don't have anything else to say..I'm still exhausted from yesterday..Other than painting, the weekend was pretty uneventful..unless you count me cooking the BEST tasting ribs EVER yesterday as excitement...so, I guess I'll close..hehehe.
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WORK WORK WORK!!!

Hello!! It's 1:30 AM, and I am painting away.. this is all that I have done in the last few days--The fish is so cool. He's 12 inches x 48 inches...he was fun to do!! I am painting, painting, painting...in hopes that when we go to our first show down near Montgomery, AL that we can just take a couple of days off and go down to Florida, and have 3 days there before our second show. But, to pull this off--I have to have enough paintings to carry two full shows!! So, right now, I am the little engine that thinks she can. LOL..Ok..paint should be dry..more work to do..Cross  your fingers for me.
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Whew..Sorry for the overload, but I had to delete the post that had several of these paintings because the blog messed up...so I reloaded them (the ones at the bottom), and uploaded new ones...SO..that's it...
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GOOD EVENING!!

Good Evening. I am a woman obsessed! I am slowly getting my inventory up! I have done 3 tonight, and will do one more before I allow myself to try and sleep. I have a single-minded focus going on, and I don't want to stop...because any day now, I expect to wake up and this productivity will come to a screeching halt. I found the bottom one (ginkgo biloba leaves) in a magazine. It was a photograph, and an advertisement for the ginkgo pills. I just loved them..so I painted them on a background that I made last night. Gotta run now, and get back to painting..got to do it, while the muse is with me.
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TWO OWL PAINTINGS!

Hello! These are the latest of my paintings! The top one is 12 x 20, and the bottom one is 12 x 12.
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FOUR MORE PAINTINGS and I JOINED THE DOLMAN GEIMAN LODGE CLUB!!

Hello! I have followed this artist's work for a few years now, and absolutely love his style! While I was looking around on his site--I found that he does a link exchange, and I thought that I would share him with you! He does a fascinating mixture of collage, mixed-media and assemblage! You can check out his website HERE, and his blog HERE. I have also added a permanent button to the right hand side, so you can always easily find him! If you have never seen his work, You are in for a special treat!!

I got in one of my crazy painting moods today! I painted four--the top one is 15 x 15, and the others are 12 x 12.  Not too happy with the cow, but..it'll do..I loved painting the top one, because I was just relaxing and watching TV..and painting..

Anyway--that's about all for today.
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FOUR NEW PAINTINGS!!

Hello! Hello! Hello!! I have been working (it seems like ALL the time)...and these are the 4 new works that I have come up with. The latest one is the girl at the top. I literally have spent all day working on her, changing her, painting and re-painting...got her almost finished and HATED HER....so, I threw my hands up in the air..and randomly tore out some eyes, and boobie...glued them on, and threw some paint on there. I did all of that in less than 10 minutes..not really caring a bit, and finished her! Now, I really like her...

Nothing much else is going on..I am starting to organize for shows...blah blah blah...same old, same old.

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