Quiet Vigilance

Sometimes you have to take several steps backwards to gather your thoughts. As an effort to regain some inspiration, I went gallery hopping last Friday. As serendipity would have it, Barbara Waterman-Peters was attending the collective gallery. We had a wonderful discussion about artwork and she took a look at my portfolio. She enjoyed everything but encouraged me to continue my exploration of my yellow nudes. My last set was done when I was living in a similar situation, so it followed that they would be a logical avenue to shake my current moody slump. With rejuvenated energy, I went back to my yellow nudes. I discovered, they have never really went away, just took a break. Now I have a huge array of subject matter and direction to keep my days filled with painting.

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New Flowers in the Garden

Dillon and stopped into Walmart yesterday after his eye appointment and as I pulled into the parking lot he asked me "Are we going to go look at the flowers?" Caught off guard by the question, I said sure, we could go look at the flowers. As we were browsing the flowers, Dillon found three plants that he insisted must be added to our flowerbeds. One was Creeping Phlox - "Amazing Grace" then he insisted we needed blue added to the garden, so he picked out Lithodora - "Grace Ward", some blue Lobelia and a few Marigolds.

When we were finished shopping we were waiting in line to check out. The lady behind us observed Dillon placing the items from our cart onto the conveyer and he was carefully moving the plants. She made the comment "Ladies and their flowers." and he looked back at her and nodded, catching the comment, I looked back at her and as Dillon was looking down, carefully continuing his cart unloading, I pointed my finger toward Dillon and mouthed "Their his plants." She said "oh!" with a laughter in her voice and asked Dillon if he liked gardening. He said "yeah, I guess" and she said, "You did an nice job picking out those flowers" He looked at her perplexed and said "These aren't mine their my moms!" I had to giggle.

As we walked back to the car, Dillon asked me "Why did that lady think those were my flowers?" I told him I had told her that you had picked them out so they were his. "Oh, No those are your plants!" he insisted and I told him. "It doesn't matter what you say, I am always going to remember that those plants as yours. Ones you insisted needed to be added to the garden. Gee, Dillon you even brought up that we had to go look at the flowers today and then was determined to have the ones you picked out! So like it or not, those are your flowers." He protested a while... He is currently quite disappointed in my belief that those are his flowers. Despite that he made no protest in helping me plant those new additions. So, I think as time goes by he'll enjoy his contribution to the flowerbed... I know I will.

It has been a late year for blooms, but I have a few more flowerbed photos . - click here to see!

Out in Left Field

Out in Left Field - Acrylic on Canvas - 12"x12"
Have you ever felt completely out of sorts. Kinda out on your own, waiting for that ball to actually be hit toward you... ahh, then you know the feelings that is shown through this painting and the kind of day that I had today.

I have anxiously waited for spring so I could sit outside and paint again... spring has finally sprung and then for some mysterious reason on the most beautiful day of the season so far, it seemed that I could find all sorts of things to do other than paint. The laundry needed to be done, there was a pile of laundry that needed to be stored once again in the trailer, oh, then the trailer needed to be vacuumed (yes, I guess it needed to be done today... not!) by the way, my son needed a web cam installed TODAY! No he didn't! Oh, then I noticed this or that needed to be cleaned or done... finally around 1:00 I decided that was enough of cleaning and doing I really NEED to paint.

I could have been out around 10:00 and gotten one heck of a lot of painting done, but apparently I had a need to put it off. OH, the frustration with myself! So, here are the results today. My son looked at it and said it looked sad. I really didn't think it looked as sad as it does weary and weather worn. What do you think?

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Spring Surprise - Acrylic on Canvas 24"x24"

Today was a beautiful day to paint outside. I really enjoyed the sunshine and the breeze.

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Anticipation of Spring 20"x20"

I believe I am finally starting to turn around my late winter funk. It started with the flu and strep combination and dipped low with a fibromyalgia flair. I usually have a bad turn on my FM during the change of the seasons but this year with the bout of flu initiating it, everything really has hit me hard this year. I am so thankful to have the gumption back! I finally convinced myself to sit down and give painting a whirl once again. I will be getting back to my Five Element Tarot Series very soon but I need to blow the cobwebs out of my brain and paint jars. I figure that a few expressive pieces to add to my Kansas Wildflower Series wouldn't hurt. My intention is to get some steam back into the creative and take off again with the 5ET series, so dear friends of that series hang in there with me.

"Anticipation of Spring" is here and I am pleased that it turned out well enough for me to post it.

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