Joan Oliver Next To My Painting, Miss Chrissy

This photo of Joan Oliver was taken at my art opening on Friday night

She's with "Miss Chrissy, Anything is Possible"

Watercolor

September 26 2008, Brainstorming

Here is a drawing that was never intended for the web. My friend Joan Oliver and I occasionally get together to "co-coach" each other - we each pick an area in our life that we would like to excel in and then we go about putting structures into place to assure success. I love to cold call and recently decided to pursue a position for 20 or so hours per week doing just that. Joan had asked me to collage the dream job and this lighting speed sketch lists qualities that are important to me.

September 24 2008. A Study in Values

Tonight I'm missing my parents. It's late and there is a photo right next to me. The moment captured took place in my home state, Vermont. Beautiful Manchester. My mom and I are laughing and surely my dad was amused taking the photo. We were at one of his favorite restaurants. When I wrote "Value Study" across the sketch I immediately thought of the incredible values my parents instilled in their children.

Both pieces were done as a sketch first using a regular pencil, scanned and loaded into Photoshop.

September 23 2008, "Love is a Choice"

Doing the best you can. Making something special. Today I've been consumed with creating some meaningful images to fit the theme of my first ever art show - Abolition & Justice.

This piece is a watercolor painting of mine after a trip through photoshop.

This was inspired by a Carter Hayward quote:

"Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies"

September 21 2008, Flowers

Tonight I wanted to draw something beautiful and picked a pot of yellow flowers. The black and white sketch you see here got clipped in the scanning process but given the late hour (3:00 am) I thought I'd go with it. After all , sometimes mistakes turn out best. I really like the photoshop version.

September 20th 2008, Epiphany Moment

September 19th 2008, An experiment in drawing and ink

Here's my first ever ink/wash drawing . I was inspired to give one a whirl and scouted out a marker that would create a wash by simply painting water into the drawing. What a fun adventure! Never having done anything like this before, everything was a surprise. And i LOVE surprises. I couldn't help having more fun upon seeing the cropped the image you see here to your left. Look above and you'll see what fun I had "on Photoshop".

What a delightful and funny moment it was when I realized the the image I made up had turned into my friend Mark .We shut down Friendly's Ice Cream earlier in the evening and he clearly made a big impression :-)

September 18th 2008, At the End of the Day

In the end I suppose it all boils down to what actions we choose in life. It's past midnight now and quite as a mouse. Part of me wants to sleep and the other part is whispering, psst, it's a thirty day journal, the idea is to do a drawing every day ... tomorrow you'll have a blank page where September 18th was going to be unless you do something now . I am sharing this piece because action won out.

September 17th, 2008. Spontaneous Adventures

I sooo wanted to run wild with loose free lines and abstraction while drawing today. I made a little notation on the spot where I almost couldn't contain myself. See it there on the left? Spontaneous adventures always call to me, the lines were beckoning me forward as well. In the end I resisted in order to study and focus on contours.

September 16th , Breakfast

The true confession is that this morning instead of drawing I was compelled to take a photo of the dark red kidney beans I was sauteing. They are so tasty with garlic powder and a little ground Cayenne pepper.... well, here they are.....