"Venice Time" SOLD

"Venice Time"
8 x 8in oil on museum quality panel

$350

Gondola rides preclude "being in a hurry" or "running behind".  They glide silently down passage ways inaccessible by cars.  One has no choice but to  relax and soak in the surroundings.  Buildings  from Marco Polo's time, stand in water to their waist.  Sunlight dances on laundry, flowers, clothes lines and the like, as it snakes its way between.  Setting your watch to Venice time means it's impossible to hurry..:))

In Other News:

New Assitant Hired for Getting Organized!!  The letter of recommendation accompanying the application stated, "Possesses the qualities needed to immerse themselves totally in filing."
What it didn't state was that they might also leave your files in a hairy mess (see photo)

Yep, check out the odd shaped file in the middle basket--that would be my office assistant, Ed,  "immersing himself in his work".....

Shipping Your Artwork--This week on the #1 Art Show on Blog Talk Radio, Artists Helping Artists, we'll be covering the low down on how to deliver the goods! Click here for times and details (all shows are recorded and archived!)

Atlanta Workshop!! Kick off the new year with my workshop in Atlanta, Feb 10-12.:)) I will be teaching for 3 days, alongside Leslie Saeta, for my first workshop of 2011--can't wait!! Would love to see you -- there are still some spots available. Click here to read more and also visit Leslie Saeta's site to see her great palette knife work. Pin It

"Venice Blue" SOLD

"Venice Blue"

6 x 6in oil on museum quality panel

$200

  Men are from Mars.  Women are from Venice.  Or at least that's what Eddie says.  And I am siding with Ed this time.  Women should be from Venice.
It's one of a kind, romantic and gets more beautiful with each passing year.
 Just like the women I know...:))!

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"Venice Reflected"

"Venice Reflected"

6 x 6in oil on museum quality panel

On Hold

An "over the river and through the woods" trip today brought home to me, once again, my love for painting. It is a totally indulgent way of experiencing everything more fully.  Colors, shapes, and light--where would we be without light?  Riding along, catching glimpses of the landscape, I saw things I would love to paint--in other words, experience more of.  And that is life itself---so much of it.  So much joy, so much beauty---impossible to experience every scrap of it.  Perhaps that is why it matters so much that each of us do what we are designed to do.  I can't travel everywhere, or write about everything, or know what it is do so many of the things there are to do in this one great life---

HOWEVER... if you share what you experience by way of making art, singing about it, sharing your story with me in a thousand different ways---it adds to every one's living--including mine:)

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Just yesterday John and Lora Lea Dawson invited me to their home for a Christmas party.  As I stood at the foot of  this ginormous (I know, that's not a real word, but it does conjure up the big tree image..:))festooned tree in the family room, John began to share with me where each ornament had come from.  In the process I got a glimpse into his (and Lora Lea's) life.  Places traveled, his own childhood, memories made with their kids.  It just made my life feel a little bit bigger. And when my friend Lynda Gregory wrote about her month long travels in France this past summer---well, I was there in every village and every bit of walnut oil purchased (you'll have to check with Lynda on the walnut oil story..:)   And that's how it goes.  My life is made so much richer by the presence of people who share their experience of life.
  Today, indulge yourself in experiencing your slice of life.  It is precious and meant to be shared.  The world is waiting.

Note:  The painting above was humming in my head on my ride through the country....couldn't wait to get home and paint it.  Did I mention I love to paint...:))) 
I take great joy in knowing we are experiencing this beautiful joy called life, together!

P.S.  I will be drawing for the next 3 weeks (one each week), winners for my monthly painting giveaway (yes, if you need to know, I am behind..:))  so make sure to sign up to receive my blog, if you haven't done so yet so your name will be in the hat!
Also, I just sent out my monthly newsletter, and if you would like to start receiving it, you can click here to sign up for it (it will keep you informed on upcoming workshops, etc.)

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"Venice, a Love Shared" SOLD

"Venice, a Love Shared"

6 x 6in oil on museum quality panel

$200

Ever notice how easy it is to share the things we love?  A favorite food, a good book, a new CD.  In fact, in our love of it, we are most anxious to press it on those around us, certain that as much pleasure it has brought  us it will surely do that and more for another.  Well, it strikes me that is how Venice is.  It is a place to be loved and shared.  An amazing place that "walks on water", defying everything that makes sense for how a city is supposed to be.  And it's this very oddity that makes it so sweet.  Gondolas that glide silently 'tween marvelous walls that make us catch our breath.  Venice, a place to be shared, just for the love of it.

Gratitude Mission

#30Thanks Day 29  

Today I am thankful for something that may seem a bit silly.  My phone..:))  My little purple phone that I carry with me, stuffed in my purse, laid on the dash of my car, slipped in a pocket while painting.  It's so small, can be annoying at times, and costs me money.  But...and this is a big  BUT...it allows me to hear my daughter's sweet voice like she was standing in the next room, almost everyday, and she lives 2500 miles away.! It allowed me talk to my sister while she lived in Germany for 8 years and now keeps my in touch with my friend Bill who lives in Berlin.  I can talk to Ginger in Shanghai and do a radio show with Leslie in California (and we both did one from two different islands in Hawaii this past September!).  It even helps to catch Eddie when he is acting silly ......

  It sends me sweet notes from my hubby at the most unexpected times...:))   It lets me connect with friends who live both near and far away and make plans to see each other.  In a word, it doesn't make me wait.  I can scarcely imagine if I could only talk to my girl the few times a year that she either flies home or I fly out to see her.  I would be one sad momma!  So today I am practicing active gratitude for my little phone and all the beautiful people in my life that I can reach out and "touch" any ole time I want!!

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