This is my entry for this week for Illustration Friday's topic "BRAVE"

This is a painting I recently painted and currently have on eBay for sale.  I love the expression on her face, such determination that I decided to name this particular painting 

"Face your Fear"

 

Sometimes in order to face our fears we have to be proactive.  In this case a nice sensible baseball bat and a loyal companion Kitty is all it took to conquer her fear of "The Closet Monster"!

"Propagate" for Illustration Friday

 

  

 What some may see as weeds others see as wildflowers

"Adrift" for Illustration Friday

Here's my newest entry for next weeks topic "adrift"

Letting go, trusting in fate, relinquishing control, being adrift ..can truly be freeing ..at least for a while!

"Muddy" for Illustration Friday

Here's my entry for the "Muddy" topic of the week.

 

Rainy days are muddy days but not for this kitty!

Post Blizzard ...Just another snowy day

I can't believe we just had our third major snowstorm in a row.  There is so much snow outside, it's blinding!  The first day or so it's nice but after that I start to yearn for something other than thermal wear ...I miss the sun!



I have painted some new paintings which I just posted last night on eBay and on top of this I finally decided to do a little Spring cleaning in anticipation in the area of my art work (don't mention house cleaning yet ...please).  I listed a bunch of paintings with buy it now and best offer on eBay  these are paintings that for some reason I still have.  I'm running out of studio space so they must find new homes so I have the room to create more.  My studio is on the third floor of my house and it's not very big, can be drafty but it does have some charm and the best thing about it, I can close the door and be by myself with just Limone and me.

Limone is my cat and my shadow and he thinks he's a budding artist.  He loves to help (a little too much) and he's also handy and willing to lend a paw whenever I wrap my paintings as well ..so anyone allergic to Kitty cats ..well you know.

This painting is called The Keeper and I enjoyed painting this one ..lots of inspiration from Limone on that one.

 

The painting is much nicer in person but my photography is about as good as my blogging ...needs work!

I also painted my "Flower Girls" which I have not posted on eBay yet and may do so tonight.  This is my ode to Spring painting and I really like the way they came out.  This was mostly a mixed media piece and everyone knows, I love collage and bees wax!

My last painting which I just finished and it's not quite dry even as I'm typing (though I just took a picture of it) is called "Bunny Recitals" and I receive a lot of "Oh, she's so cute" from my niece (she's seven) and I'm not sure if this one will make it to eBay or not (I think I'm going to paint one for Elena with her own hair color ..she'll love that). 

I heard the front door slam which means any second now I'll be hearing "what's for dinner?"  ...I'd rather be painting!

January 2010

I must be the worst blogger in history!  I can't believe another year has gone and I've done absolutely nothing on this blog. I'm sure I'm not getting a lot of traffic from anyone reading my blog (there's not much to read) but I have been busy painting.  I'm still eBay, though the traffic is slow, but it doesn't quell my inspiration to share my work. 

Here are a couple of paintings that I just recently finished and haven't put up for sale yet.  Hope you enjoy them.

This is one of my Valentine paintings "love", I really love the way she came out.  The mermaid is also really cute.  I haven't done mermaids in ages and I really wanted to paint one again and what better time than now! 

 

 

Almost a year later!!

Do you get the feeling I'm not much of a blogger! I have decided to try and improve on this, and hopefully I will follow through.

For the news, I've been diligently painting (my little fingers hurt!) and I currently have 15 paintings on eBay. Yea!!

Here a couple of paintings that just sold.

I love the angel painting and how it turned out. They are both so sweet and the cat in the moon seems to approve as well.

This painting I decided on a slightly more fun, surreal look to it and I think it came out really well and stealing time is not such a bad idea! I never seem to have enough of it!

Thursday, June 14 2007

I took some time off today and read. I haven't done that in a while and it felt nice to just cuddle up on the couch with a an interesting book and relax ...I have a hard time doing that but today I did. It was a particularly cold day today, so unlike June. I was actually chilled this afternoon. They're calling for lows in the 50's today. We have very strange weather here in South Jersey, one day it's in the 90's and the next day, you're wearing a sweater! I went out in the garden and looked at my tomato plant. Yes, you read correctly, I have one tomato plant. It's in a pot on the side of my house that occassionally gets a bit of sun. It's doing well and I'm seeing a few flowers on it. I'm excited , I can't wait for my first tomato. I had my Yorkie, Zeeke trimmed today and he looks adorable. Yes, that's where I came up with the name Zeekeadoodles, my dog and my love of doodling. Here's a pre-trim photo of him with his "bear".