Got a Job!

After months of looking for work, I have found a job at the coffee shop, and start the day after tomorrow. I'll be working in the kitchen doing the baking and food prepping for their small but lovely breakfast and sandwich menu. I will be joining the ranks of artists moonlighting in food service, of course, but this particular job looks like it could be great fun. Am looking forward to learning the ropes during the first week, and then seeing the extent to which I can make the job my own and turn out first-rate fare. The owner made me feel very comfortable during the interview, and I think she and I will work well as a team.

Perhaps I should worry that it will interfere with my art work, but I've a very strong intuitive feeling it will actually help it. It will help me have a place here in the downtown area, and I've been invited to bring my art there, as well. There must be some reason why I've an impulse to paint cooking and kitchen scenes....

Dinner Together

Decided to do a scene of dinner with Nick and Amy, just to see if I could work with specific people in mind, yet in the same manner. Got a few other things I'd like to compose along these lines in the weeks to come.

Salad Day

Painted over one of the Farmer's Market paintings from this summer, felt it was too heavy and blurry and blah. The idea for this one came to me while working on my Artist's Way morning pages.

A technical challenge was to do the salad and carrot tops with enough, but not too much, detail.

Tabby in the Yarn

Here's my silly cat again, inspired after a few nights of trying to rescue my knitting yarn from her sneak attacks.

Dream Paintings, Cont'd

Then I wanted to paint a rabbit, or rather, a hare, a bunny more lively than cuddly, the energetic rabbit of folk stories and myths--and my dreams.

Dream Paintings

Have been painting a lot in the past month, in anticipation of our first show of sorts in Valparaiso and of a gallery in Marquette Perk back in Miller Beach. I like to do small Dream Paintings, vignettes with lots of blue. The first is "Night Bird." This was my donation to the silent auction at a showhouse benefit for Hilltop House, and it was purchased.