Happy Weekend

Floating

9" x 12"

acrylic on paper

Another Landscape

Way Home
9” x 12”
acrylic on paper

Switching from quick brayer paintings to lingering brush paintings, I played with abstracts this week. Then, a mountain scene from my imagination wanted to be painted, a river/road wished to appear, trees grew up in the distance, and lovely La Luna rose in east. Do you sometimes feel you are just a conduit for what paper and brush and paint want? I love it!

While taking an online class at work, I discovered

something about Picasa that might be helpful to other artists using Blogger. Also learned how to post Flickr photos directly to your blog. If you are at all interested in learning more about high technology, these 12 Steps are easy to understand with great visuals. Highly recommended.

Tell me, are fall temperatures encouraging your art? Are more fall colors popping up in your journals? What are you working on?

New Mexico Frame of Mind

New Mexico Enchantment

9" x 12"

acrylic on paper

The above new painting is the result of thinking and dreaming of New Mexico lately. 20 years ago next month I first visited the Land of Enchantment, staying in B&Bs, renting a car, and driving around to pueblos, museums, hot-air ballooning events, and national parks. It was the first time I had ever done that for a vacation and it was immensely liberating and enjoyable. I’ve been in love with New Mexico since.

Did you see the Lifetime movie about Georgia O'Keeffe recently? What did you think of it? It has me heading to book shelves to dig out "Portrait of An Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe" to re-read.

I've viewed her paintings at the local McNay museum, the Santa Fe museum devoted to her, and the Art Institute of Chicago (where I took the above photo). Although she hated being called a woman artist, she did blaze the trail for gender-breaking acceptance.