I finally scanned in some completed paintings.  One interpretation could be I’m ready for summer…

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  This is not my hand, but it might as well be.  This is not my jacket, but it might as well be.  Maybe I should start selling my clothes, because no matter how hard I try, everything has a bit (or a lot) of paint on it. top image via

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some more new Floodline pieces now available!

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(Jack White is my son’s hero, he’s been singing this song non stop lately:)

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from my desk this morning: sad tulips in front of a new painting…..

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Of Monsters and Men

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working on…. listening to…

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Or in this case, a canvas my dad no longer wanted that still has the beginnings of one of his paintings.  I almost want to just hang it up as is.  It is a huge (this is just a corner of it) canvas, 48″x78″ and I am so scared to start and at the same [...]

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I have the makings for a good weekend.  A new book to sit down with (discovered via Victoria), and some nice new brushes.

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“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up & get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part & a bolt of lightning to strike you in [...]

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It is upon us, the season of crazy.  It’s my busiest work season and the kids schedules seem to get busier with age.  So maybe that’s why every year, our house gets a little, well, less.  If it were up to me, our tree would wear nothing but white lights (every year I try to [...]

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this quote from Georgia O’Keeffe this sunny Monday morning… “I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” -Georgia O’Keeffe found via

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will be part of my shop update on Friday (if I can bear to part with him   He is acrylic on paper and is quite large, 36″x48″.

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I will be putting a ton of original work in both my shops (etsy and floodline)  on November 23rd, along with some new prints and new sizes!  Please stop by next Friday and take a look!

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working on… listening to…

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Working on a nearly there painting, I love the dark inky quality of dusk. Listening to The Head and the Heart

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Over the weekend I watched this amazing documentary about one of my favorite artists, Gerhard Richter.  I loved it, I could watch him paint for hours and hours.  So interesting to watch someone else work, so many of the things he said really resonated with me.  I particularly related to his feeling on being watched [...]

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I thought I’d start sharing on a regular basis what I am working on and what I am listening to while doing so.  I recently realized it’s when I’m listening to new music that I tend to be the most charged to make new work.  Makes sense I suppose. So this week, I’ve been working [...]

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I have a show opening today in Beacon, NY at Blackbird Attic.  If you are in the area, stop by! Prints of these new paintings will be making their way to my etsy shop soon.

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  I just sent this group of little paintings and several framed prints off for an upcoming show.  This weekend was crazy busy, with several fun projects that had deadlines coming up, but I’m almost done!  Hope your week is off to a good start.

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