125,126,127th canvas of the year .... i'm just gonna be proud of that for the rest of the year ... and wonder what next year's resolution will be ...

yippee!

i finished threeeeeeeee paintings today .... collages ... does it bug you when i call a collage a painting? when i call my mixed media creation a painting? 

anyway ... i digress ... 

monday morning was good for me! all of the last two weeks' otherness is gone ... today was just painterness.... artist stuff .... collage-0-rama ..... do you know i have a show this saturday .... a booth at a fest? a booth at a fest next door to my best artsy pal, allison? so, i've taken this week to procrastinate the actual organization that i should be doing to prepare ... and instead? just painting.... joyfully, happily, busily painting .... hopefully the organizational stuff will just fall into place later in the week ..... 

none of these three paintings started new today ... all of them have been in the process for while .... i started the grasses on this last friday ... and the background, i don't know when .... i think it is interesting to paint with white, i SO seldom do it ... and i actually have a commission piece in whites .... not sure how that's going to happen! you can read about these flowers here at my flickr site ....

this next turquoise one is an 18 inch square ... larger than most of the nest paintings i've been doing lately .... you can't tell well on this photo, but there is some blue running through the nest ... like some wee bird family had a go at someone's sweater .... and got some blue fuzziness in the nest for color, warmth, comfort and style .... who wouldn't want some blue yarn when it can serve so many purposes .... you can go visit this nest on my flickr .... 

and then ... one last collage ... a red pear .... on an 18 inch canvas .... the plan was a blue pear ... but blue wasn't popping on the background like i wanted .... i have all sorts of painted papers and i "try them on" my backgrounds while i'm searching for the right colors .... sometimes i find the right color and then have to decide what to make with it ... or sometimes i want a particular image, a pear perhaps, and look for what color it should be .... 

so there ya go ... my day .... three paintings makes me feel better about all those painting hours i skipped entirely while indulging my tennis obsession .....you'll be interested to know that it was in the 40s this morning ... and HUGEly windy .... and i skipped the tennis clinic i had planned to attend ... so, if i weren't such a cold weather sissy, i'd probably only be showing you one or two finished canvases .... 

so that's my story, morning glory .... and you? did you do anything grand today?