A time to be negative

There is a time to think negatively, and in the art room it is now! Looking at the negative space helps you see the object more clearly. I tell my students it is like training for a sport... You have to work the brain-eye-hand-muscle connection. At first it doesn't come easy, but with practice you get better at it, and then you can play the game!

Mother's day heart prints

Have spent Mother's Day in my studio printing hearts (on delicate tissue papers) and musing on those who have imprinted themselves on my own working heart muscle. Shout out to my own sons Kent and Max, my nieces and nephews, my God children, Ben, my students, and my 10 advisees about to graduate. They all bring out the mother in me! Each one is such an interesting person, I feel blessed to know them.

Dandy flowers for mothers day

Micheal's come alive in the studio again! He's creating botanically inspired images using paint on balloons applied in a twisting manner. I love the colors! Yesterday at the Lowe Museum's last "sip and sketch" for the season, Michael had 16 happy painters leave with wild canvases. They showed up at 7, had wine and cheese and followed his step-by-step procedure. Each artist added their own twist to the paint and were done by 9...What a deal!
I love having the extra color in the apartment. We have been cleaning, scrubbing and clearing out for spring. My son recently moved out (I am really happy for him, but-:-(  of course), and now Michael is back in the studio!
Tomorrow is Mother's day and I am missing my mom all the way in France, and missing Michael's ultra cool mom- Yvette- who died this day two years ago now. Gosh, she was a beautiful woman, inside and out. No wonder, with a mom like Yvette, he paints so colorfully! God bless all the moms!

Spring in the Target parking lot

Clouds made for painting

Pretty darn cute. Chicks in the urban world play in a parking lot puddle!

Plan ahead

If you don't get something in the mail by Wednesday
or in your hand by Sunday, you will be bugged...
Like this card shows, there are consequences for not planning ahead.
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Spring from the gound up

As far as the signs of the seasons go, by living in Miami, I miss nature waking from the slumbers of winter most of all. It always starts along the waters edges, first underfoot, then waist high, before soft yellow lime green leaves unfold at the tips of tree limbs. The background palette is still slate gray and raw umber. With the new infusion of life,
it is a time of hope and possibility. A time of new birth. I saw three orange kits (baby foxes) playing at the side of the road up in the country. The city park was filled with dogs pulling their owners into communities. Tomorrow is May first!!! Already? Nature is at play again.

Marvels from the sky

Who doesn't love a window seat? How can we resist the temptation to capture the glorious evidence (as opposed to the havoc wreaked) of Man's footprint across the surface of the country.
I took too many pictures.