Evening work

My evening "work" for weeks has been that on the computer... We decided to get an Au Pair, and so I have been pouring through applications and emailing and calling women from all over the world. The process is time consuming, and very fun and exciting, but I can only do it at night, when I have undivided attention to give to this task.

We chose a young woman with whom we really liked and felt would make a great contribution to our lives here, and extended an offer to her and she accepted to be with our family! She is a lovely girl from Thailand and she arrives in late June.
I am sure we will create a page just for her so she can document her time with our family and Maxwell and Liam.

We look forward to her arrival.
With that done... Let the artwork begin... naptime studios LIVE ON!!

Open Studios Spring 2007

Every Spring and Fall our studio building holds an open studio event. Friday night was our night. It was bittersweet. It was my last open studios there at the Hobbs building. I am moving studios in a few weeks, and after five years there, it is hard to leave.
Here are a few shots of my studio space and some newer things that are in progress.
I share part of my space with a friend of mine.

New studio work

We are having our spring open studios this weekend, so I have been putting in some hours making new work for the show. Here is grouping of four canvases 8" x 8", of acrylic, ink, wax and tracing paper.

"Four of Us"



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no art yet...

Tide turned- over that one. but still too busy and dead tired at the end of the day to make any art. Kids aren't cooperating in this endeavor.... funny! they just refuse to nap at the same time.. so it's bedtime art for me until further notice.

low tide...

end of a very long week.. a low week... but when it is low tide, you can always count on high tide moving back in, no matter what the deficit.

Two doors close, at least one will open down the road... right?

Understanding and Understanding are two totally different emotions. I understand, however, I do not want to Understand.

Time to move on..

Made art tonight. Two samll pieces.

#1 "Not this year but maybe ne......" 8 x 11 water color, ink pastel, velum on paper.
#2 " Which one of these is not like the others....?" 4 x 6 guache on paper

Tuesday: Teaching Day

Today I teach my two painting classes, so I don't have time to "make" but I do have time to think.
So today I am thinking about making art.
Sometimes these are the worst days, and sometimes they are the best.

Monday: Studio Day

Today I was able to get to the studio to work for a couple of hours.
So nothing was created at home.
Nice breakthrough on new work at the studio happened.
Now if I could only get there more than two hous a week.
Will try for more.
More brainstorming was done on my pet project "Naptime Studios".
Recruiting "Moms" to participate. So far I have enlisted 4 others besides myself, and will invite 7 more to join.
Am putting finishing touches on rules and materials and am in the process of gathering all the materials needed for each "Naptime Kit".
Someone suggested pushing the idea further to be thinking up a place to showcase this project and the finished pieces, and be thinking of display-
Will consider this idea- it would be great to see all the pieces put together to form one larger "unified" piece.
Now ... for a location.... hmm....