back into the outside studio

a few weeks ago it was will's 40th bday...

we celebrated by having (pretty much) a reunion

of friends from hartford art school (plus family...)

and it was the biggest party we have had in our house.

there was art-making everywhere... in the kitchen,

in the bathroom, in the red room (which i basically

made into a studio for kids with tons of stuff to create with)

he also took over my outside studio... yes, the one he built:)

he hung a beautiful show of paintings, a series he's been working

on for a long time. it was his first solo show!

here's a little glimpse of it after he hung the works...

they are portraits of his friends and family...

with the name written in a script that a friend's great

uncle created many years ago. the colors, shapes

and feeling of the painting are all symbolic of the

personality of the person - the essence of the individual.

plus a birthdate...

here's mine:)

at the party, he took a photo of each person in front of 

their paintings... i think he captured me pretty well...

especially the colors!!!

(these are the covers to my new watercolor journal) 

i am not going to just journal when i am far away from

home - i am now going to try and keep a somewhat

daily drawing/writing diary.

 so here's me - moved back into my beloved art making space...

not that i don't just do it all over the house. i love having a minimal

studio with only the supplies i am working with at the moment

and plenty of room to fill it up with newly painted works!

 haven't worked on hanuman in a while... this just may be the

one that takes years to finish - like most of my big works.

 brand new gessoed hardboard frames... can't wait to sink

my creative teeth into them... i have some ideas,

but not enough time.

so i continue to work on small 'studies' to see where

i want my art to take me. i did this lakshmi (thanks rupa!) mostly at

school over the past couple of days.

once more, just playing with color and ghostlike images.

namaste!

ps. stay tuned for a giveaway.

as soon as my counter hits 13000

i will do one.