"Cold Shoulder"

I'm sorry I haven't been blogging lately. A Death in the family has stopped the flow... I'll be back soon as I can handle it.

"Neckline in Light"

Now for some abstracts

" My Poor Little Match Girl"

Chapter 10. Women Who Run
With the Wolves My response to the chapter Clear Water : Nourishing the Creative Life.

To paint in a style unlike our normal style. I usually paint large and realistic so I painted small,loose and stylized.
This woman appears to have everything necessary to have a good life, Beauty, intelligence, a good and loving heart, even wealth (notice the fur coat was real). But she was wasting away, starving herself from real warmth and nourishment in the pursuit of the "Other" world.
She is exhausted and selling herself short of her true worth.

"Candies"

"Allie"

"Shoreline"

"Oriental Dish"

"Lone Palm"

"Lil Red Wagon"

"Morning Kiss"

This once again is my niece and grandnephew from a photgraph I took in my studio about 20 years ago. I just painted this while I watched the Republican convention. I was struck by the love of family while watching them, and feeling the loss of my Dad and came across the photograph and wanted to paint it.

"Italian Tonight"

"Triple Play"

Luscious Orchids fascinating Flowers. Prints of these make fabulous placemats.

"Pelican Fly By"

This is a real stop action painting The Birds are awesome to watch here in Florida and I just love painting them too. He was circling around and diving and eating his prey always looking for the next victim.

"Washed-up"

Sometimes after a storm Old beat-up shells find thier way to the shoreline this was one of those.

" Peace on the River"

This is the view from a condo that My ex husband and I owned in North Ft. Meyers

"Under the Kaypock Tree"

The Kapock Tree was the name of a famous Clearwater restaurant in Clearwater, known mostly for the beautiful gardend that surrounded the dining halls. there are many beautiful statues among the flowers and this is one of them.

"Captain's Riverboat House"

This house is in Brooksville and the story is that a riverboat captain built it to resemble his riverboat so he would be at home when he wasn't on the riverboat. Men... They'd always rather be fishing.

"Madona of the Kiss"

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This is actually a black and white photo of my neice and grand nephew that I posed them for back in the 80's he now is 20 years old.

I used this painting for a Christmas card one year I got so many complements on it and people framed the card.

"Bahama Mama"

This was a photo with flora and fauna but no human or bird so I put a bird in for interest

"The Eyes Have It "

This beautiful cat was a gallery cat he didnt get along with his housemates so the gallery owner moved him to the gallery. there he was the King of his castle.

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"Enchanting"

This swan was so fabulous and the sparkle on the water was really flotsum and jetsom of a dirty pond but I turned it into sparkles of glistening water, which so much rather suits the majesty of the swan.

"Sunflower" Handpainted Ceramic Tile

Sunflowers make me happy

"At Rest"

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"Kingfisher"

"Prima Balla-Fushia"

"Blonde and Beautiful"

"Blue Heron on Rooftop"

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This heron was on a rooftop next door my house was elevated so he was right off my lanai.

"Red Dance"

"Calla's"

These calla lillies were so well arranged I just had to capture them. I know I know "So Okeef"

"BB's Babtism"

"Nesting"

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" A Lovely Bunch of Violets

"Johnny Jump-ups"

"Rogers Palm"

"Indigo Rest Stop"

"Sunlit Iris"

"Rainbow Salute"

"Fresh Veggies"

" Boot Ranch Beauty"

"Dragons and Blooms"

Watercolor, Alcohol, salt (Margeritas anyone) and a credit card is all it takes sometimes. The only thing was I got a little precious on the dragonfly.

"Along the Pathway"

"Serenity"

These swans were floating on the river in Homasassa. There was such a serenity watching them floating along. doing what swans do. These swans were actually black swans but I had read somewhere that black swans are considered bad luck, I didn't want to send bad luck to someone so I painted them as white swans. If black swans are bad luck, white swans must be Good Luck right. How's your luck?

"Carbohydrate Conundrum"

A chapter in the Women who Run With the Wolves Book deals with "Identifying Leg Traps, Cages and Poisoned Bait". The chapter helped me to Look at some things in my life. The question asked is What do your Red Shoes look like?
Having a slight shoe fetish at the time (75 pairs) I thought about being literal about what do my red shoes look like? But in delving deeper I saw the deeper meaning of the addictive nature of the Red Shoes. After all 75 shoes is a mild addiction next to some people I've heard of. (O.K. maybe I'm in denial... but they won't kill you although sometimes you feel like the pain will kill you.)
My red shoes are: eating things that are not good for me. Carbohydrates are my poisoned bait. I love them, I crave them. And yet they are hurting my body (I'm breaking out in fat all over) it's always my first choice and my choices are taking my body down the drain I am being sucked into the vortex of the carbohydrate conundrum.

"Bird of Paradise"

"Strolling Green Key"

"Coconut Rest Stop"

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"Rainbows are Promises"

Chapter 9 in the book "Women Who Run With the Wolves" is titled Homing: Returning to Oneself

My response to that chapter was:

When I was young and beautiful I shed my clothes and posed nude. I took pictures of myself when I was a photography student (cheap model). I had this shot and it reminded me of Botticelli's "birth of Venus" pose. I've wanted to paint it for 20 some years but I could'nt until this book. I was afraid of what everyone would think so I hid the pictures. Now I see that they are just form, beautiful form and I want to share it. I am one with the universal light and all the colors of the rainbow fill my form and my skin to let you see the form not the parts of it.

"Espirito Santo Bay"

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"Tall Drink of Water"

"Red Hot"

I painted the light background painting first and thought it was done then after some time and another opinion I decided to paint the background dark and I really like the painting much better. I felt the background was competing with the horse. I think the horse is very "Red Hot" now.