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Paint and collage on a piece of molding

 to add a dash of art above a door…

or window or anywhere...

sketch of my niece who was here this week visiting with us and going to cooking camp with my daughter.  

A favorite subject: grapefruit…. capturing that odd shade of pink orange.

oil on birch panel 

Breakfast: a flower shape

Philly Farmer's Market Signs

We painted signs this week just in time for Urban Tree Connection's first day.

(a wonderful organization that grows fruits and vegetables in vacant lots in Philadelphia) 

http://urbantreeconnection.org/

"Draw me! I am a knight on a horse about to slay a dragon!"

Ummm... okay sure.  That was one of the drawing requests I got at my daughter's elementary school.  One little boy asked me to draw his whole family (who I had never seen before) and all his pets (who I had never seen before either, even though he gave me detailed descriptions of where the black and white spots were on his cat) and they should all be playing basketball together.  That one I approached in a very impressionistic way with a lot of motion lines! 

 The easy ones were, "Can you write my name in pink and purple and draw three kittens?"   

Mother and daughter

 Mother and daughter with a touch of mystery. 

A painting commissioned for a girls bedroom. 

Watercolor

Marion in NYC - early 1900's

 Marion, my grandmother, when she was a girl.  She lost her parents when she was five (one to a fire and one to an illness) and she went to live with an aunt.  Years later, she met my grandfather at the A& P where he worked.  He said he was touched she would take time to chat with him when she came in to shop, because he was an immigrant and she was a native New Yorker.  All my grandparents lived in NYC and I loved to visit them and hear (and imagine) their stories.  

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Now that I have the hang of blogging, I think I will tell more than 3 people 

that I actually have a blog (and website)!

collage

Paint paper, 

rip into shapes,

move shapes around 

see what happens

(or sometimes the wind blows the shapes into places on the paper-  

more beautiful- less forced than the hand can do).  

It cures any perfectionist tendencies.  

More like making mosaics than painting with a brush.