I am in the beautiful country side of southern Washington (state), visiting mom, my brother and sister-in-law. Wow! I just want to stop and paint awhile. Here is a painting entitled “In the Wine Country” that shows the vibrant, green rolling hills of this charming area.
My daughter, home from college, is teaching me some fantastic things about computers and the internet. Today’s lesson is about staying in contact with fellow artists. She showed me how to create a form so that people, like you, can sign up for my email/newsletters. Sign up to get my newsletter. Let me know it works!
It has been a long time since I blogged but I got very discourage because there were never any comments left and I was not sure people were finding me. This is what I have been doing:
Writing a book
Donating a painting to the Deschutes Childrens Foundation
Teaching my The Good, the Bad, the Beauty of Color
Teaching my Watercolor Journey’s Class
Teaching the Elements of Design Class
Getting ready to take a group of watercolorists to Provence, France, September 2009
Finalizing my article for the July – August Issue of Cloth Paper Scissors
So see not much but………
Part of what we did for this Art Box Group was to record our thoughts, our progress, our frustrations and why we did what we did to these boxes in a little journal that each Art Box person provided. The journal traveled with the box as it was passed from artist to artist. The blog below is my first entry for Helen’s box.
O ne evening while driving home on Shevlin Park Road, just before the curves going down to the river, I passed a shoe in the middle of the road. My curiosity was peaked so I turned the car around and drove back to the shoe sighting. Shoes and boxes were scattered everywhere. I was able to retrieve 2 very nice pairs of size 6 ½ soft leather, Anne Klein, low heeled shoes; one pair light blue and the other black, as well as 2 clear acrylic boxes marked: “shoes, green” and “shoes, red”. Driving home I wondered about the demise of these shoes. Was some young lady with petite feet driving away from a tortured life so fast that these shoes were flung out of the car? Was a young couple on their way to a new home and these shoes just slipped off the back of the truck? The original shoe owner was obviously a very meticulous and organized fanatic to have marked each box so carefully but where were the red and green pairs of shoes? The history of the shoes will remain a mystery, but the moment I received Helen’s box I knew right away that she would get the blue shoes.
Even though Helen talked a lot about loving the stars and heavens and being up high, I could tell that she is a woman with her feet secure to the ground. But her box is now suspended above the shoes, thanks to the help of my husband and his shop tools. My impression of Helen is that she is very sure of herself and is someone that has been places and is going places so I wanted to give her Art Box a sure foot to get started on and since her favorite color is blue, of course she gets the blue shoes.