Spring has arrived!

Well, even though we were wearing coats, it seemed like spring to us. My sister and I took our cousin from South Dakota sightseeing in Virginia this week. Monday was Monticello and the University of Virginia. Here we are in front of the Rotunda. I wonder how many photos like this have been taken!

This next photo is of a piece I finished recently, and hung in an exhibit at the Columbia Art Center. I wanted to go back to the tree idea I was working on last spring. It too has a lot of paint on the surface. I used Shiva Paint Sticks among other paints, and I like the effect they give. It's called Blue Marsh, and it's 23 x 17.

And it sold, too!

Art Consulting

I met with an art consultant this morning. She has owned a successful gallery for 35 years. The goal of this morning's meeting was to get started thinking about what I want to do, what my goals are, and how to achieve them. She is very enthusiastic about my work, although it doesn't fit in her gallery.

So I came home all jazzed up and ready to work. I painted 10 pieces of fabric when I got back, but they are still curing so I can't show photos of them. Instead, here is a piece I did recently:

I collaged fabric and painted it with Lumiere, Setacolor, and Shiva sticks. Then I cut it up and collaged it again, and painted it one more time. I used the grids because I wanted to create a sense of looking through a window.