So I’m back, I think

It’s been a week. My little yellow Jeep overheated and fuses and fans. Had to have it towed.

Then the garbage grinder and Amazon had a go at me.

So I finally got over myself and painted. This is “Sweet cheeks at the beach,” pastel on half sheet of lacarte. No idea what happens next.

Drawn from life, memory and a good imagination. Yep, it’s the ref again.

It’s Sunday and this is my WIP. Peace. Watercolor on paper.

Sunday, the end of April almost

And I painted outside!

WIP

  

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9 feb 015 …. Could not resist

Here is our bird feeder snow from inside. Dana kindly cut eyeholes for me

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And here is today’s extra foot. Enjoy!

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The weather is becoming an issue

Even in here in our snow globe in the woods.

The bad part
Yesterday, one of our cats horked all over all my pants.

The good part
But then I got to go paint with my Tuesday painters group AND (shameless plug here) submit two big watercolors for the Cazenovia, NY Winterfest.

Today

The bad part
I just strolled into my studio to find water coming through the ceiling onto a pile of watercolor paintings.

The good part.
It’s fixed and this one is there at the Cazenovia Public Library!
Reception Thursday 4-6

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Trying out Stillman and Birn paper

I bought a Stillman and Birn Gamma series sketch book. I’m in love.
Ink and coffee imaginary rocks.

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Happy Groundhog Day

Snowing two inches an hour in here in our snow globe. Phil’s mitten.

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The full-moon effect

Mark Bialczak was asking people the other day what the full moon does to them. I said something about pushing me into my studio. Well, it’s up to three above zero now and my studio has a concrete floor. Soooooo, here’s another iPad moon

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#jesuischarlie

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When people get killed for drawing, WTF?

Ink splotches with coffee

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This my best effort today, fooling around with my beloved fountain pens and ink on some plate finish paper. I like this design so it may become a grownup painting. This sketch is just 4″ by 4″ or so.

Life is better than it has been. PTSD in a loved one is a constant balancing act.

The end for today

Easy b/w challenge today

It’s still snowing here at, oh, about an inch an hour. I am eternally grateful for having been the one to make sweet potato pies. We will survive!

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Saturday blue, but I had a b/w assignment

An old friend has challenged me to a week of black and white.
Easy.
Black, night.
White, snow

So I painted with a wonderful Pilot refillable brush pen and coffee because I had coffee.

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Then I removed the color.

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Today was Friday. Still gray, but

What a sunrise!

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Wow, I have followers?

In here in our snow globe, it is gray. So here’s an iPad painting to brighten up your world

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Snow globe 2014 first shot

Lemon sky

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Indian summer, one day here…

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I painted this watercolor outside Tuesday and had a lot of fun. Monday and Tuesday morning had been difficult.

I complete abandoned any thoughts, images….
Never mind. I turned my hurting brain off and painted. The result is completely non-objective.

My brain hurts now.

painted hickory leaves redux

nice enough this morning to get out the door just as the sun went in, but that counts too.

Golden Qor watercolor and Golden high flow acrylics. I hope they dry shiny. On Arches 140lb paper.

Sunday edition shows more drying and nice shiny leaves of acrylic paint.

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Another sunny day! Where am I?

Today, mid-October I painted the beginning of a watercolor while looking at the magnificent hickory tree in front of me. Woo hoo!

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Tomorrow is the last time, promise

Tomorrow is the second and last chance for you to see the Cazenovia Art Trail! I am having a real nice time with some artists I know and meeting some new ones. I am hurting a little less so am psyched for tomorrow.

One more peek

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A little digital painting like one I did paint in watercolor. Only available online at a site not yet determined to use.

Good night, all.

Cazenovia Art Trail this Sat. 11 Oct. 10-4, please come

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Alberts restaurant postcard from the past. Watercolor on paper.

And another, for October which is breast cancer awareness month

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Cazenovia Art Trail, part one

I had a great time yesterday at the Cazenovia Art Trail, Cazenovia, NY.

We had a roomful of all kinds of painters. Put our stuff all around the beautiful community room. the Art Trail folk had done a great job with maps, locations, pics of our work.

I learned that small sells very well in this economy. sold a bunch of watercolor postcards in little bags. well, they are water colors…

Here’s one, and thanks to friends who drove from far away just to see me. Gee whiz….

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this one still needs work, but it’s colorful!

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one more fall treat

this is a little Golden QoR watercolor on Yupo. QoR is the most saturated pigment I have ever used. On Yupo, which is plastic paper, color goes wild. This one will be on Redbubble and Café Press, along with a bunch of others.

I’ll have cards, mugs, all kinds of stuff available. They print, they ship. You get art in the mail. I hope everyone will be patient until next week. Until then, today’s treat.

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See you Saturday in Cazenovia, NY library, and thanks for reading.

Tuesday painters’ day

Hi there. I have been struggling with pain and getting ready for the Cazenovia Art Trail, starting this Saturday, 4 October and next, October 11 at the library in Cazenovia, NY.

Thankfully, my galoot husband Dana has organized my studio by kind. Then he pulled all the paintings from all over the place onto our studio table. We sorted by size, and then I made three piles from each size: finished, more work needed, and paint over.

All we have to do is bag em and tag em. Most of my watercolors are painted from edge to edge meaning they sometimes get mounted. Whew.

Painting is the easy part!

today’s peek

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Coming October 4 and 11 to Cazenovia Art Trail, me!

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trying again

Today I was greeted by a dead cellphone. Aaack.

But I really need help from you guys to spread my Indiegogo campaign, please.

I am trying to raise money for mats and frames for the annual Cazenovia Art Trail. I am way new at crowdfunding. Have had a lot of comments by people with no followers as to how I can help by sending them money!

So
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/940887/emal/6696653

is my link. We are way broke and I was juried into this show. If anyone has suggestions or even is able to contribute, I have some perks up. Thank you all for all of your comments, likes and shares.

Another painting peek

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hello from chilly ny

Hello, it’s been a long time. Very serious family emergency.

But I am Baa-a-ck

And in need of advice. I was juried into the second annual Cazenovia Art Trail. It happens on October 4 and 11 and I will be in the Cazenovia Library with three other terrific artists: Toloa Perry, Drayton Jones and Rick Marchant.

My problem is cash to mat and/or frame my paintings. I have plenty of paintings. Do any of you know which crowd-funding source would be best?

Indiegogo has been suggested.

Here is a peek

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a photo today

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I think I caught the last bloom of these hardy day lilies. Here in the middle of NY, they flourish everywhere. Painting today. Posting tomorrow.

Thanks for your supportive comments. I can’t say how much I appreciate them.

Saturday better than all weeks

Hello everyone. Miss me?

I am not going into it, but this has been a fucking bad week.

However, I got a new friend, below

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Nala Bean is her name and no, I didn’t choose it. Chose her because of it.

Ok, my spouse has been in hospital. Next week he comes home and I am excited.

that’s all for now

bright blue, black wednesday

I have had a very bad thing happen to me from which I will recover.

But I won’t be writing for awhile. Miss me?

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here are some strawberries for ya

gray monday

Hi there,
Sorry to have posted so infrequently, my reader.

I have been painting like crazy to get ready for Cazenovia Art Trail this fall. I am thrilled to have been asked. October 3 and 10 I will be at the Cazenovia Library with other award-winning painters. A little brag, pardon me.

My selfie painting ran in Al Dia, a great newspaper in Philly. The writer, Sabrina Vourvoulias, is a longtime friend. She asked me to write a few graphs about Frida Kahlo, who painted self portraits. She was a fiery woman as described. I love her work.

Cody has left the room

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We had to put our wonderful 13-year-old dog, Cody, down today.

It is much too quiet.

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lap view last winter

still numb.
read you tomorrow
martha

just a coupla hills over

we had a tornado and marijuana became legal and we must put our 13-year-old dog down tomorrow.

That’s why I have not posted

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I am awake, okay and will post tomorrow. The pink thing above came from a sample set of Sennelier watercolors sent me. Great paint.

flying

happy fourth

digital painting
iPad using #paper53

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gray

I am in a rut, watercolorwise. Anyone want to try sending me one word, or color?

By the way this is me.

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macro monday, sorta

I understand there is a #macromonday around here.

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I was standing and am shaky, so I got one of the allium in focus and one reverse.

Cheers!

ps. My brushes are just as shaky. Stay tuned for a masterpiece, I hope.

saturday morning

A little later: caffeinated, medicated, in less pain, thanks. And thanks for reading my rant. I always get over it, usually without so much yapping.

And I did not make another art opening. Fucking pain. Anyway it’s here, for sale, 30 by 22 inches. Two months, coffee, watercolor, other fun stuff, charcoal. Please buy? I am whining. Will stop now. Cheers everyone.

Here’s one done in North Carolina

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another watercolor color experiment; two yellows, two reds, two blues

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it’s been awhile….

I am happy to have new followers today!

So I decided to explain me a bit.
artist
writer
editor
searching for humor
missing journalism
career art, write, edit, design

long pause in which I was raped four times and then tried alcohol therapy after the auto accident which disabled me in 1982. I was rear-ended in my truck by a fuel delivery truck. Alcohol is addictive and a depressant. That took awhile to sink in, with therapy.

think 16 tons

so now I paint, try to be not depressed, get regular pain treatment

and my husband became completely disabled in a work accident

so now we are two caregivers taking care of each other. It ain’t easy

But we’re still here

And a painting by me. (it’s for sale; can I say that?)

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sunday

happy mothers day if it is appropriate and happy day for all the smart people who read me.

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Spring!

From last Fridays photo challenge. I am posting late. This the view down the drive from a past year because the colors I love are not yet here.

The sun is out. I will finish my endless painting outside!

Here’s a spring

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Okay, it’s Wednesday, and umpteenth plus …

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and two unwanted drips and spills later. This may go out in the rain we’re expecting. It couldn’t hoit!

today found a new use for snow

see below. I took wet wc paper outside barefoot and dumped espresso grounds on it. Then I added some coffee with snow to hold the edges down. They are drying in the sun. Title of whatever happens next: the medium is the message, with thanks to Marshall McLuhan

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selfies

the first time I posted this painting I had found a category in G+ labeled selfies. Thought it meant, well, self portraits. Silly me. I got many questions similar to “how did you DO that?”

Then I looked some more after answering “I painted it.” I was in the wrong place. he he

Then the other day a big-time ballplayer thrust a cellphone in front of the President of the United States and snapped a selfie of himself and the President. Mr. Obama stayed graceful and in the spirit of the event.

I learned today that the fancy ball player had the morning before signed a contract with Samsung and used this national honor occasion to promote the phone. I find the behavior reprehensible.

I could sputter a few more graphs, but I’ll just leave it at that……sputter, fume, try not screaming… sputter.

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A Word About Words – Stephen Fry

A Word About Words – Stephen Fry.

Just listening to Stephen Fry’s wonderful voice is a treat, but these words and the animation of them are addicting. Said the old writer.

Caution: Instability Ahead

Caution: Instability Ahead. I suffer too. This blog gives real help