little paintings

 little water colour paintings ovate leaves

 with my favorite holbein colours peacock and opera

on arches 140 lb coldpress paper
i like the way they turned out.

toes

so friday we were painting toes and jack get very upset because i usually tell him no. however whats the big deal? he is a little boy he wants to have fun and what does he know about gender? what do any of us know about gender and roles? so i said to myself f@$k it and painted his blue.sophie called him a boy girl and then got in trouble because name calling isnt cool. the boy was very happy though. who am i to stand in the way of that?

some more wet on wet practice this morning at breakfast. yes i paint and eat at the same time. how talented am i? not really. how was your morning?

hair

look what i have done to my hair. yes i dyed it. then i tried to take some arty photographs of it with my iphone. i know im dorkalicious,but what can one do?

succulent flowers

the utter madness of plants but what i did do was going around here and the yard and collect the flowering stems to make a quite pretty little bouquet of succulent flowers. they are like gorgeous little gems. have you missed me? i  have missed you. i love you blogger i really do.

paintings

 what have i been doing? packing orders for daniel, painting, and stressing about my daughters birthday next weekend. have i organised the party yet? no...im a bad lady. this painting above is called

she consulted the five petaled moons

they offered her no solution or solace

watercolor and pencil

on arches 140# coldpress

kinda drama,huh?

this one is

so she made boxes and diagrams but they were imprecise and crooked like her thinking and heart

watercolor and pencil

arches #140 coldpress

yeah i have been in a funky place for awhile, but what can you do other than ride out the storm?

 So Thursday I made strawberry apple crumbles in little ramekins

i added some sugar and cinnamon to each little one

 and a crumble topping with pecans. it was pretty dang good