My apologies for not keeping up with my blog however I started the year way under the weather and it really put be very far behind in every aspect of my life. Plus, there have been way to many non art activities that I’ve been forced into by people who don’t appreciate my time nearly as much as I do.
But the good news is that there have been more sales that I’m happy to report and hopefully, I’ll get back to painting soon.
Three of my faves sold last week. 🙂 😦
But fear not, I’ll do more!
The month of November is always hectic and to add to the usual hecticness is Nanowrimo [National Novel Writing Month]and now PiBoIdMo [Picture Book Idea Month], both of which I wanted to participate in. This year was more difficult because I had to take precious time out because of a hand injury, which is healing now, thank goodness.
As usual, I didn’t finish Nanowrimo but am okay with that because I did finish PiBoIdMo.
It’s been difficult to get the badge inserted somewhere so I’m posting it here now.
The creator of PiBoIdMo is Tara Lazar and she hosted daily guest posts on her blog which were very insightful and inspiring: http://taralazar.com/
The idea is to come up with an idea a day for the month of November. Since it wasn’t necessary to actually write the whole book every day, it was do-able and I exceeded the goal. Some of the ideas might actually pan out. I sure hope so. In the mean time I’m still working on a tree frog book, now with several more ideas to follow.
Thanks to Tara and all her guest authors and illustrators.
P.S. Last night’s fortune cookie: “Right now there’s an energy pushing you in a new direction.”
Each year the Gamblin paint company cleans their filter and makes paint out of the pigment they collect. They put it in a tube and when you buy their paint, you receive a free tube of this random grey paint. The color can be different every year. They call it Torrit Grey. (I believe Torrit is the filtering system.) Also every year Gamblin paint company holds a contest and you can see the rules for yourself at their website: www.gamblincolors.com. There is a link there to see past shows and winners.
Basically you must paint with the current year torrit grey paint and you can use any white and a black.
My Torrit Bird paintings were painted with just the torrit grey and white – Gamblin’s Flake White Replacement.
Even though they allow you to enter 3 works, I only entered the top bird – he was my favorite.
Done last weekend for the 10th annual world wide paint out. Went down to DuBois Park and set up toward the inlet.
It was a nice day but there was a storm coming in from the ocean. That gave me a great cloud to work on though. It sprinkled a little while I was there but as soon as it started to thunder I packed up and left.
Lately, I’ve been working on tree frog drawings and paintings because I’m totally obsessed with frogs. Well, I’ve always liked frogs and I’m not really totally obsessed but actually trying to write and illustrate a children’s book about tree frogs.
This drawing is just my idea for a character I call Aunt Lily.
While researching the tree frogs I came upon disturbing information about our amphibian population and if you are a facebook friend, I’ve posted this organization on there a couple of times and want to put their link here too.
Amphibian Rescue
Also, here is a very informative video that you can watch in full on PBS.org – “Frogs – The Thin Green Line”
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/frogs-the-thin-green-line/video-full-episode/4882/
Hopefully you don’t get bored with the subject of frogs, but they are in serious danger from many environmental factors and a devastating fungus that has recently killed off way too many frogs. The situation needs as much attention as it can get.
This is the greener pasture we’re always looking for. Occupied, of course.
Haven’t had a chance to post anything lately.
These live oaks are located at Adams Ranch in Ft. Pierce. They have such a happy, lyrical, uplifting look to them that I had to paint them with happy squiggles.
The painting panels I use are “Pintura” and they are canvas on wood.
I just finished watching this great documentary on hulu about Herb and Dorothy Vogel and had to share it
“HERB & DOROTHY tells the extraordinary story of a postal clerk and a librarian who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means. ”
The film is about 1 and 1/2 hours, so wait until you have the time to sit and watch:
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