taking a break...

i just finished painting # 2 for a series of 3...due tomorrow! yes! i'm gonna start # 3 when i'm finished with this.

first things first...look at how beautiful it was at home on Saturday...





there's nothing like a Pasadena sunset on the mountains in the winter...



Alec putting finishing touches on our Christmas CD...



Monday was my first day of finals...complete with a 6-hour critique in portraiture. i turned in my painting of Joey and Caid, brought a picture of a life-sized figure drawing i'm doing, and 2 in-progress paintings of my grandma (which are 2 of the 3 due tomorrow but Betty wanted me to bring them anyway...)

some of my friends' work...

Mike (and Phil's on the far right)...

Sarah and Robin's...

Krystyl's...

starving students...

(when i showed them these pictures they all laughed because they said they look homeless...)

lunchtime...Krystyl got pizza lunchables...yum...? she thinks so...




critiquing...

Christian and Mike had multiple laugh attacks in Professional Studies that night. at least they were in the back row...i was in the front. and i kept laughing at them laughing. so i spent a lot of that class with a really creepy looking grin on my face because i was trying not to burst out into goggles. i mean, giggles.

today the ocean was amazing...

i went by the store and this dog in the car next to mine was super excited to see me. the owner walked up as i was petting him and said he had separation anxiety.



i may post on another break later. i've got to get back to work...



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at the risk of sounding comically angst-ridden and pretentionsly saccharine...

it's amazing when you hear a song and it feels like the artist opened a little drawer in your heart, pulled out your wishes and your sorrows, and made something of sense and loveliness from them. there's a Vashti Bunyan track that seems to be the soundtrack to my psyche...and even though i already feel everything in it, it hurts a little to listen to the words and hear the melody because suddenly it has breath and is that much more real and inescapable. but you play it anyway because it is the only thing that makes any sense...


that's all.


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art walk

Yesterday...

morning:
i went by my gallery to check out everything, get some photos taken and stuff...by the way i forgot to put up a link to the website which has a little feature of me.







this one sold that night!





afternoon...
then i went to the beach for a little while and took some pictures and lost an earring...i love Laguna in the winter...












that evening was the show...and i was overwhelmed by how many people came out to visit. i only have a few pictures of my tried and true pasadena mates, but i'm glad to at least have those...


Bettina


Katie




Kristina...


...and Pip, Andrew and Daryl...



...so much of my family came, so many teachers, friends from school...i am amazingly astoundingly blessed and i am so grateful to everyone who came...! Thank you thank you...


now...FINALS WEEK!



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well, i just spent all morning at my gallery hanging my work and setting up for the show tomorrow...i'll be showing these pieces plus two others...

click em to make em big...(if you want)




















the epic portrait of Alec i've put up, i think, but it was unfinished then. Now it's all done and lovely! it's about 4 and a half feet tall.

i'm so tired but i've been drinking coffee so i'm all hopped up. it's great.

so come by if you can!

1200 Pacific Coast Highway! only a mile or two south of Laguna Canyon Road!
if you can't make it that's quite fine. i have a much more important show in May when i graduate.

aaand next week is finals! not thinking about that. i may rupture.






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vater und sohn

So here is the best picture i have of the painting i did for Joey...i have a few touch-ups to do but it's pretty much done. Caid's hand is close to the most difficult thing i have ever painted. have you ever painted a baby's hand?? it's like trying to make little sausages look like fingers. i'm excited to start another painting because i learned a lot doing this one and i want to experiment and try a few more things.

I started a new big drawing, too...so i'm also revved up for that.

today i dropped all my work at my gallery and filled out consignment forms and get the pricing all done and tomorrow i;m going over there to help hang the show...which is on Thursday. i'm so terrified.

so school is going well!

everything else, though...i don't know what God is doing. Lord what are You working on? when will i know what direction to face...?

i have to get to class at 2.

more pictures later, hopefully.



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i think...if i could see Radiohead in Dublin this summer...i would sell a kidney. i'm not even joking.


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Current inspirations...

Chuck Close




Nicolai Fechin




C.S. Lewis



Last night's Sunset...











what's inspiring you?




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