.: Angels & Abundance :.

February 15, 2011

View at Picasa The above is one of my favorite new angel paintings. I love the way her wings turned out, her hair, the kimono, and the stained glass window. She’s currently framed and hanging up in the sun room where I paint. 2011 has soared in with an abundance of change. After a year [...]

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.: O Tannenbaum :.

December 5, 2010

Every year David and I buy a holiday tree from one of our favorite local hippie restaurants or a local guy who sells pumpkins and then trees out of one of the parking lots off of Sheridan Road. This is probably my favorite holiday tradition. Beyond loving the whole Germanic, Scandinavian, Victorian, celebrating nature tradition [...]

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.: Happy Halloween :.

October 25, 2010

Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays. I trick or treated for as long as I was allowed, running around the neighborhood with fellow high school choir members singing for candy. There is nothing like the mystery that seems to surround being allowed to stay up late experiencing the night time neighborhood transformed [...]

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.: flickers of light seen through the trees :.

October 9, 2010

I found this beautiful navy silk and it reminded me of the night sky. It was incredibly delicate though, so the kimono is sewn by hand. View at Picasa OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO.,LTD C2020Z, 2.0, 6.6mm, 0.033 sec, ISO 151 View at Picasa OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO.,LTD C2020Z, 2.0, 6.6mm, 0.033 [...]

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.: In the Interim :.

October 2, 2010

Sorry about the radio silence, summer is always a low posting time for me and this year has been exceptionally busy. I’m happy to say that a lot of that busy time has been spent painting and sculpting. After the third failed attempt at making matching slippers for the Duchess (damn those small seams) I [...]

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.: The Duchess gets some finery :.

August 1, 2010

I’ve been working pretty steadily on The Duchess. Finished her embroidered underskirt and upper skirt. I’m using silk and it moves just so beautifully. I feel like it has a sense of movement. View at Picasa OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO.,LTD C2020Z, 2.0, 6.6mm, 0.02 sec, ISO 100 View at Picasa OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO.,LTD C2020Z, 2.8, 19.1mm, [...]

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.: Maki! :.

July 11, 2010

So I believe I’ve already mentioned how much I like asian food in the summer. Specifically Vietnamese and Japanese cuisine. And I love maki. So again, me being me I had to see if I could make some at home. There is an awesome asian market in the Argyle area called Broadway Market. They have [...]

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.: Completed Works :.

June 29, 2010

What a beautiful day, the night is cool and the day was the perfect temperature. A wonderful way to end out June. The mermaid painting I had on the easel is now complete. Below are some details of my favorite parts of the painting. I really love how her face turned out, exactly as I [...]

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.: Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing-Wax :.

June 7, 2010

So I thought it high time I posted some works in progress. View at Picasa OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO.,LTD C2020Z, 2.0, 6.6mm, 0.01 sec, ISO 100 A couple paintings on the easel I’ve been working on. As a challenge to myself I’ve been working my way through Stephanie Pui-Mun Law’s marvelous watercolor book [...]

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.: Shrimp on a Sugarcane :.

May 24, 2010

I love Vietnamese food. Especially when the weather turns warm. Something about the mixture of fresh herbs and greens, the limes and chilies and cold noodles, the deliciously grilled meat seasoned with lemongrass and ginger, seems a perfect balance to the heat of summer. One of my favorite things to order at one of our [...]

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