05/19/2008 09:55:40

Mystical work, very moving pieces. diane

05/18/2008 18:58:09

Thanks for checking out my blog.  I didn't always have a studio, but I always painted and made a space to paint.  I've painted in many different locations in our various houses.  I appreciate what you're saying about where you paint!  Good luck with your commission piece.  I'll be painting again soon, the school year is winding down. (14 days left, but who's counting?)  I've got a few paintings going right now, just haven't had time to finish them.  Mary Ann

05/18/2008 10:39:43

Thanks for the blog comment.  I couldn't get too mad with her, she was only like 100!  Seriously, I don't know what she was doing out solo.  She must've gotton lost from the group.  But, I am still sick, still working, still trucking along.  Larengitis is setting in though.  Don't know how well customers are going to respond to that today.  That frame will cost you ... as my voice conviently drops out!

05/13/2008 08:43:00

I just saw your 2 newest paintings and love the simplicity and flowing qualities in both of them. Last summer I purchased a book with paintings by Wolf Kahn and I did a bunch of simple landscapes with the idea that less was more although because of your neuteral color choices I think your paintings are much more effective.

05/08/2008 08:11:42

Thanks for stopping by my page. You have incrediable work throughout your gallery. You seem to have a good grasp of both realism and abstraction. They say that realist artists sometimes make the best abstract painters!~Mike

05/07/2008 07:14:27

thanks for you comments, About the circles I use to use them alot a while back and then strayed, but I'm stepping into a new directions and taking that risk always feels better for me to bring something along that is a familar site or item.  Keep the great direction your going in.

~v~Laura

05/06/2008 15:38:46

Thanks.  Yes, I've been mostly painting butterflies for the past year and a half.  I did landscapes for a long period of time before that.  Slowly but surely I am getting things posted everywhere.

05/04/2008 21:02:44

Very nice work, I especially love your two latest pieces, very intriguing!  You have quite a diverse sampling of titles. 

04/27/2008 16:29:27

explanation of an ugly self portrait - when someone wants to create an ugly image of themselves! and I was in a rut and felt icky and wanted to paint myself 'icky' but I just couldnt do it! I think I posted a blog about an old portrait I did that was quite sad and somewhat ugly, and I said in the blog my art was too pretty, and you were the one comment that asked what was wrong with pretty art. anyway, I posted the new painting and I am feeling good about my art again so all is well.

04/27/2008 10:09:48

Hi, I tried to paint an ugly self portrait but I just couldnt do ugly! I dont think its good to force a mood into a painting so I didnt. I finally wanted to paint for the first time in 3 weeks.