On a Mission

Have so many old canvases and panels with paintings that went nowhere or feel incomplete or unsatisfying on some level--so I am on a mission to repaint them. Some need editing &/or finishing, and some need total obliteration. This is the sort of project I relish, and it's been a long time since I have felt this comfortable with my art-brain and my art-space all at the same time. Will post them as I get them finished. Here's three florals of things that grow in the garden:


Coneflowers, sage, & yarrow

Tickseed, yarrow, & cranesbill

Sage, gaura, & yarrow

Studio Study

...in which the old white chair makes a return...

Dream of My Old House

...complete with my old cat...

Something Fishy

This was so much fun to paint....

Harvest Moon & Night Birds

I have weird dreams...

Orange Chair

Bit by bit, I get some painting done...

First Day's Action

Finished one painting, started another. Rinse, repeat. =;D

Breakfast in the Studio

This is more like it! Rich cuppa black coffee on the trivet to my right, a bagel with cream cheese on a little plate to my left, a happy kitty cat, my feet warming over the register, and a view of a gloomy day that is gradually brightening. This is the first day of my new schedule, moving the cookery hours to the afternoon and using the mornings to paint, when I am at my freshest.

It does feel a little strange, though, not selecting recipes and apron and heading out to the cookery and turning on the oven. By now I am normally halfway through the day's order. But after nearly a solid year of cooking for the coffee shop, I've got the routine down pat and can do it even if I am feeling tired and flat. But I cannot paint or do anything new when I am tired and flat. It took a couple of days to double-cook and make the schedule shift, but it's done and Karen at the coffee shop has given me her full support. It helps that she likes my art.

The show that we had scheduled for November-December has been cancelled, due to some changes in the works at the coffee shop. I learned of this on the very day that I first moved back into this studio, which almost took the wind out of my sails. But enough people have asked me about my work and wanting to see it that I've perked back up.

Just finished the bagel, and thus fortified, turn to the easel!