sister feet August 04, 2006

Have a great weekend.

Ponies and Rainbows July 31, 2006

Outlook, Not Good 16" x 20"

Hello all,

Happy Monday! Busy times here in Oregon land. After a great weekend of seeing some old friends get married (congratulations Sara and Franz!) I've settled back into work mode. Unfortunately this means that I've also started feeling an old familiar twinge of stress in my neck about upcoming (exciting, but slightly stressful) events.

Let's see. There is Crafty Wonderland at the Doug Fir on August 13th, the Renegade Craft Fair on September 16 and 17th in Chicago, and last but not least, the Santa Barbara Festival of Arts on October 13-15th.

Are you noticing the pattern here? One event a month for three months, starting...*gulp* in to two weeks. There are a million and one details to contend with, from air fare to booth set-up. Business cards to order, tax forms to fill out, emails to send, supplies to buy and paintings to paint. Sandwich all these things together and you have a slightly stressed out enchilada. The enchilada, or uh, sandwich, being, me. But the stress and worry aside, life is fantastico.

I hope that if you're around for any of these events that you come by and give me a high five, and maybe some rice pudding. I really enjoy the rice pudding. Also, I have some new items for sale on the store page, if you get a chance to check them out.

These really are exciting times, love is all around! The spicy, delicious, green salsa kind of love. Ponies and rainbows mixed with beans and rice.

swims-a-lot July 27, 2006

Went for a swim yesterday with Gabe and his cousins in this beautiful lake below Mt. Hood. The water wasn't nearly as chilly as you might think, and I swam and swam my guts out. We finished the day with huge plates of Cuban food, a late night showing of Nacho Libre, and my first game ever of air hockey.

To get a feel for this awesome day in the comfort of your own backyard..just make yourself some kind of banana treat, sit in the sprinkler, and crank up the beautiful sounds of this tune.

Ahh. Perfecto.

What's New Monday July 24, 2006

"Roll With It" 10" x 20"

Happy Monday everyone!

The painting above is cropped, but you can see the whole enchilada on the store page*

I would write more about how the week is going and how my weekend was and everything, but my brain is busy melting into my skull. It’s about 200 degrees outside and I think lava just started bubbling up through the grates. What are you doing reading this? Run! Save yourselves! To the wave pool!!

New Paintings July 20, 2006

A Much Better Castle 24" x 24"

Hey All,

Well, as promised I've been hiding out in the basement the past few days finishing a few paintings. Hurrah! I posted them on the store page, but haven't gotten around to updating the artwork page. Will someone please send me some kind of magic pill to make me paint and work a little faster? Wait, scratch that, I know about those little pills and they're illegal. Guess I'll just have to start doing a little more a workin and little less swimming and spitting watermelon seeds.

And when I say I've been hiding in the basement..does it make you think of a painty Egor?...Because that's exactly how I feel. The sun..it burns! It burns!!

Ciao!

What's New Tuesday July 18, 2006

Tuesday! Yipes, I guess I dropped the ball on the Monday update yesterday. Which is weird because this week has been very un-busy. I've spent a lot of time getting organized. Cleaning out menacing closets and drawers. We painted the living room. I did about three thousand pounds of laundry. Stuff like that. I know I haven't really mentioned it, because there is isn't much to share about it...but I've been working on a young adult novel for about a year now and it's finally starting to get somewhere. It has offically taken over my brain like one of those things, that you know, take over your brain. All I want to do is work on it, so it's been taking a lot of effort for me to do other stuff, like shower and paint. But I'm heading back into the studio today and plan on finishing a few of the half baked paintings that I started a couple of weeks ago. I'll post them on Thursday. Oh! And I just found out that I got into the Santa Barbara Arts Festival in October. So I had better get in my rear in gear and all that.

Stay cool everybody! I just looked at the weather and it looks like parts of this country are about to burst into flames...

What's New Monday July 10, 2006

Haunted Kettle

Hey Friends..happy Monday!

I hope you are all having a nice July.

I've posted some new paintings for sale on the artwork page and on the etsy store. I've been painting more and more ghostly spooky things these days, when real life has been far from creepy. In fact, I've spent the last week doing some amazingly fun summerish things. Gabe and I spent the weekend at the Oregon Country Fair and not only ate our weight in crepes, smoothies, monster cookies, empanadas, burritos and Nancy's ice cream..but got to see a lot of old friends in the middle of the shady summer forest. I had my portrait drawn by a little boy at a booth called, "Portraits, by a Boy." A very fitting name, I thought. There are so many fantastic crafts and foods and people at the OCF, but these brooms are my all time favorite.

We also spent a good amount of time with family, camping out in tall grass, eating raspberries, and swimming in a little bitty river with a surprisingly strong current. Ahh, could this summer BE any more awesome....? Well, I didn't think so, but I just found out that I got accepted into the Chicago Renegade Craft Fair in September!! Yippededo! I'll have more details about that in the next month or so. I'm so excited! I had so much fun with Wendy at the Brooklyn Renegade, that I can't wait to do it again. Speaking of Wendy..she's on a road trip right this minute and headed straight for our little house here in P-town. Soon I will inflict the barbecuing mania on her that has swept up my summer with an unstoppable force. The unstoppable force of, FLAVOR.

called it macaroni July 01, 2006

Barbeque + blowing stuff up + potato salad + icy beer + sprinkler in the front yard + watermelon + cousins = 4th of July good times!!

Have a fantastico and safe holiday everybody.

What's New Monday June 26, 2006

"Personal Assistant" 4" x 4"

*Update* This is my Illustration Friday painting for the week. The topic is, rain. Not that we're having any around here...

Whew..what a toasty beautiful time here in Oregon land. The air is dry and the sun is hot hot hot. I'm chilling in our basement at the moment..the only place that has managed to stay awesomely cool.

I want to thank everyone who came out to the Hanner show last week at Mississippi Pizza. There were so many awesome little kids at the show! One in particular who was rocking out front and center next to the stage. Thanks also to everyone who came to Craft Rock yesterday..a toasty and fun event. I shared a table with Joey from Addie Pearl. We met lots of amazing folks, and tried to stay cool.

I updated my store with four new little paintings that are available.

Also, there are only two days left to buy a print of "Rebuilding the Building" from Pretty Darn Swell! Prints are $20. Five dollars from every print sold will go to Habitat for Humanity! Please check it out if haven't already, and for those of you who have already bought one..thank you thank you!

My brain is moving like slow sun tea today...more to come when I think of it...

Love**

Doh! June 24, 2006

Silly rabbit... Craft Rock is on Sunday from 10-5...not Saturday! Silly me!