Friday, December 28, 2007
Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.
Tom Robbins
Jitterbug Perfume
I have just returned from a trip to Texas visiting family and friends. It was a great change from everyday life and [...]
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Art is everywhere! Are you noticing? My godson won this silly inflatable hammer at the arcade tonight and, after beating himself severely with it, turned it into a sculpture of a worm eating a fish. I think it looks like a duck, but the artist says it is a worm eating a fish, which [...]
Thursday, December 20, 2007
The little Peepeyed Critters were assembling again last Friday during my Studio Sale and Party when a couple of local artists came by and discovered them. I may have finally found some friends to be put away with when shipped off to the funny farm to paint happy trees all day! They played with [...]
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
I have posted a couple times before about my online friend, Julie Jordan Scott whom I admire and enjoy so much. Julie has been doing a self portrait a day and, while the daily practice will simply not be happening here, I have begun to photograph myself from time to time and try to [...]
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
I wrote this post back when my printer was new and I was involved with a couple groups of artists looking into offering prints of their paintings. I have been waiting to post it until I had a photo of some of my framed prints. I finally took one at last Friday’s Holiday Sale and [...]
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Friday’s Sale and Party in the studio was a lot of fun and great folks came out to shop and visit. One of my first guests got the fire going for me after I had grown frustrated with the wet wood. Meanwhile, the teens picked out CDs to play and sat on the floor [...]
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Peggy’s Peppers
12″ x 36″
acrylic on canvas
Thursday, December 13, 2007
It’s been a cold and dreary week in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, but thanks to my friends at Purdy Art Co Tuesday night was filled with fun times with warm friends. It was their first annual Snowflake Ball, held in the Crystal Dining Room of the Crescent Hotel, which is the setting of [...]
Monday, December 10, 2007
Nice music in the studio tonight. Have a listen to Virginia RodriquesÂ
I have mentioned before how nice Jean Merritt, the Patriots’ Herald reporter, is and now we have proof. I ran into her at a parade mid-October and thanked her for printing the photo she took of me with my painting at the Artists Studio Tour Opening Night Reception. I also mentioned that I had missed [...]
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