craving

feed me mama!

Intricate

crochet necklace
using my great-grandmother's hook
(a real beauty!)

garden

a little garden i designed a long time ago
bloomeriferous
happy springtime!

Stitch

busy busy

Horizon

ahhh, the mountains are lovely this time of year! yikes it's cold! good thing i wore my favorite sweater today!

Little Things:

i love getting out my favorite toys around this time of year. i would play with these for hours on end while growing up (must have influenced my interest in urban design!). whenever i find new tyrolean wooden pieces i just can't resist adding a few more to the village collection.

captain

the captain is finding it difficult to find the shore...
yikes!

poem

this is a digital collage of leaves from my garden, tickets from a trip to europe and a sketch of a fresco in the museo correr in venezia. i filled a sketchbook full of lovely places with the simplicity of a pencil and paper. no color. just the stroke of the line. sketching was so meditative all by myself.

Suit

after nearly twelve years of ever increasing growth, three huge euonymus shrubs
didn't suit their location any longer,
so i chopped them down yesterday.
wow that really opened up the garden and makes it feel so much less claustrophobic!
i will miss their firey red fall color though.
here's an ode to those beautiful shrubs that were sacrificed yesterday.
no worries...i plant new stuff in the garden all the time so there's no loss of oxygen being produced here.
oh, next to the euonymus leaves shown here are some sasafras leaves.

my paradise

life doesn't get any better than summer in italy!
palladio, anguria gelato, shoe shopping, giardini.....
here's my sketch of chiesa di san giorgio in venezia
overlapping all my biglietti

i spy:a mash of a bunch of my paintings

hide:
go away doggy!
leave me alone!

sprout:

stage of germination of a maidenhair fern

red:it doesn't happen so much anymore, but when i was growing up i was constantly called red by strangers. that always made me mad because it was in a teasing tone. i didn't get it. my hair isn't red! sure i'm called a redhead, but it isn't red for heavens sake! i once tried to match my hair color to my oil paints and found that it is a mix of burnt umber and raw sienna. okay, enough venting for now....

buzz:happy new year everyone!
cheers!

peace:an icon of peaceeleanor roosevelt

ghost:

digital media

trouble:

sometimes i have trouble with vertigo.
trouble standing up.
trouble with the room seemingly spinning around.
trouble not getting sick to my stomach as a result.
these bizarre episodes are unpredictable and vary in duration.
on the second day of a month long painting residency
at the vermont studio center i had a vertigo episode that lasted six hours.
later that day i decided to paint what it feels like in the throws of vertigo when the walls become the ceiling and the mirror on the wall seems to be like a carpet on the floor.
actually it just keeps moving round and round.

my vertigo
oil on canvas

quiet:my daughter working on her beading projects that she sells at the farmer's market. this was done really quickly because the sitters wanted to do other things.
oil on canvas

change:change the world for the better with the simple act of planting a tree.wangari maathai (nobel peace prize laureate) does this, one tree at a time, through the greenbelt movement in kenya.
heal the world with trees6 x 4"mixed media