I forget sometimes in the wake of France being attacked that Facebook is full of racists. It is a huge distraction these days. I should and am back to making art again. I don't know when I stopped doing the masks. I think I started enjoy my faces with ink washes so much I stopped painting over them.

I think she looks a little French. Which is not honestly on purpose. She was painted a few days before. I feel like she needs a background to make her whole. 

I sold  some work this weekend. It feels empty, which is a new feeling. I think I may still have a cold. Just a little bit. Alec and I took a bike ride on Sunday and I think I may have pushed myself to hard to fast. So I'm drinking my green tea and pondering what my painting needs. Jeremy Fish said once "I always thought sketches was just what you did before painting but then I found out people looked at them as art all on their own." It's not a direct quote but that was the jist.   

I found myself sitting in my car this morning pondering life. I have been getting a lot of bad vibes from random people and it has weighed heavy on me but now I'm done listening to everyone. Art is my house and in my house I am king. I forget that sometimes when I'm at galleries and online reading comments and letters from people. If you enjoy what I do thank you. To the others I don't see you anymore.

Finding myself again

Acrylics was my daughter for such a long beautiful time and after the world carved in for bit I put her to rest. I always meant to jump back into acrylics....but my patience was thin.....so I was gone way to long. 

Lola

These stories are me.....They are my hands and neck pains. My wants and needs to be more visible. My feeling of being invisible and some times being happy that I walk around and no one looks at me. My playlist of weird indie songs from weird indie singers and songwriters. The hopes of my dreams and the secrets they whisper. 

sleeping inside the wolf

I love how this happened. I normally make all these choices on design but this kind of just happened. I was sleepy after I finished it. It feels good to float.

starfish bumpers

it came in loud and powerful

Zoo trip

I love Dc zoo's. They make a great Sunday field trip plus they are free. So that is always a fun motivator to hop on a metro train and go for it.

Alec looks so stunning. I'm so completed by her.

We went into the Amazonia. It feels like home. I love the Rays.

I think Bison are one of my spirit animals .....maybe.

melting

The ink feels so alive in the moments when the world melts away. It is a sleep that is not connected to me.

Art...venture

So We went to see the Van Gogh exhibit at The Smithsonian. We have free galleries here that are fucking huge! There are few times in my life when I feel moved but we I stood in front of Le Trek and Van Gogh's works I almost cried. It was just so beautiful and you could feel their pain in the paint strokes.