"Flee" --- SOLD

Several of my students in Santa Fe did some lovely things with cherries and I thought I'd paint some again myself. It is good to be back to painting regularly.

Carol's Kids

We wound up the workshop yesterday and got a nice photo of everyone and their favorite paintings (or what they hadn't already packed up). It was a fantastic group and we had a blast all week! I flew home today and promptly took a 5 hour nap. : ) I'll be back to posting paintings very soon.

"My Captors" and more ---SOLD

I did this one (above) yesterday. Matt offered the title - fitting I thought - and Nathalie (both students) suggested I sign it in a way that wouldn't be covered up by a frame. I hadn't considered it before but I suppose it would be an issue for framing ...

Yesterday after class I drove to Taos (a beautiful drive through the mountains) and visited with artists Seamus Berkeley and Tara Wheeler. We had an exhilerating coversation for hours and hours about everything art while eating avacado pie in a restaurant with no lights. : ) Ok, we didn't eat pie the whole time, and yes it was REALLY good!

Today a student requested I paint a flower in glass for my demo and offered to buy it before I had even started. I wasn't feeling ANY pressure - nope! To my great relief, I didn't crash and burn (see below - sold). This class is starting to feel like family and I will be sad when tomorrow is over. I promise to post a picture tomorrow of the whole class and some of their paintings.

limes & asparagus --- SOLD

This is second painting I did today. The lamps we have in the workshop are so strong they actually cook what we're painting if we put them too close! I cooked the asparagus a bit, but I REALLY cooked a couple of the limes (below). I call the asparagus "fenced in" and it has already been purchase by one of my students. The limes below I am calling "key lime fiesta" (I got LOTS of suggestions for this ... this is the one I remembered) and it was also bought by a student. This morning my new buddy, Matt (a way cool guy who paints pet portraits in his real life!), and I went to buy produce for the class and came back with a ton of neat stuff, including the limes and asparagus.