Leaving for Texas in 2 days with Granny!

I was feeling poor and desperate for white canvas and found myself at Hobby Lobby buying their 16x20 2 for one special

 so I keep covering them

this tree was inspired by a postcard that came in the mail

  

These guys are still trying to figure out whats going on

 Not much change with this one

I have faith

I know something will emerge one day

 In my last post I posted about my $2. canvas print from the thrift store

well this is what I did to it today

 12x12 I'm working on for a trade this weekend

Granny & I leave early Friday morning for Paint Mojo in Texas with Tracy Verdugo

Can't wait to see how we are inspired!

Have a great weekend

Lisa D.

The happenings around here

I decided to try one of my flowers on this gritty texture

not sure how I feel about it

 My latest tree

why always the tree?

I'm not sure if I like the blue

 Mr. PeJoe with a bone

This painting left yesterday for its new home

I'll miss it

I always miss them

Found this last night at the thrift for a buck ninety nine!

Can't wait to paint over this 20x20

I just received  a commission for a 30x30 +plus+ a 4 x 5 foot

I can't tell you how astatic I am!

As a child I knew I'd be a wife and a mother and work with special needs kids

Well I became a wife and a mother and gave birth to a special needs kid

Kind of funny...I think I may have known about Hannah before she was even born.

anyway...my point being

I never thought about what I would do with my adult life, other then be a mother and a wife

I never thought about being a teacher or a doctor

then all of a sudden, my kids were growing up and less dependent on me

and I dove head, hands and heart first into painting and creating 

It has taken me 10 years to get to where I am today as an artist

I had no expectations...I just followed what has become my passion

nothing happened over night

I'm so excited to be where I am

Old and New

I pulled out a bunch of old beginning paintings from  2004

 So fun to see them and see how I'm painting now verses then

 My easel is about filled to the brim with on going canvases 

 Lately I feel like I have so much to give out and never enough time

 so I generally fall asleep around 8 and get right back up sometime between 4 and 5am

 so I can get right back to it

 Sometimes, because I'm crazy I will join a swap of sorts 

I think something is calling for direction and these little swaps can give my brain a rest from thinking about all those canvases calling for my attention

 this happens to be a deck of cards swap, which requires paper and adhesive and very little paint 

so I've had to set up a section for this particular project

windy city tree

 Lisa D.

A weekend at our house

Zack wanted to have a tie dye party and I wanted to have a gallery night

 So we decided to put them together and have a double party going on

 There were many articles of clothing being dyed

 Lots of socializing going on

 Mike, Tony, Steven and little Steven 

Steven is holding the painting he bought

 There is some sort of enjoyment Mike & I get from having gobs of people at our house

My canvases are blank

Lets see what this week brings me

Lisa D.