Wednesday May 22

Ah!  Here is another Ireland painting!  This one was from Bunawonder beach, a little dirt path that Beaner gamely directed the minivan down when we all commented loudly on the roadside sign...
It is 8x10, $100 unframed, and will be at Rye on Friday!  $145 framed!

Dang I lOVE painting!  Water and sky, baby~  yum!
Yes come to Rye on Friday for my Happy Hour Art Opening!  All new Ireland Paintings!  And my dad will come too and will tell stories if you ask him!

Tuesday May 21, 2013~

Okay, I think I remember that my new year's resolution was to NOT apologize so much, because while there is merit in an apology if some hurt or insult has been inflicted, in MY case it is my Minnesotanness that is causing me to feel that I need an excuse for why I haven't been posting...  when in reality you are all sitting on the edges of your seats just waiting til you see another post from me in your inbox, right?!
Whew~
So I am writing up my labels for the show at Rye and thought I'd posted a LOT more images of Ireland on here!  What made me think that?
I'm posting last week's Painting Lessons work that I haven't posted yet instead!  More Ireland TOMORROW!
Good thing Max is so cute or I wouldn't want to waste time on him!
Good thing for Duane to be cute too...

Friday May 17th!

Wow!
I HAVE been painting but seem to somehow fall under the "It's so nice out, let's sit under the trees for a bit longer" kinda spell of this spring so I am remiss in posting! 

This is from the Connemara National Park, on one of the few sunny moments we had in Ireland~  I LOVE the movement in this.  The stones are winking in the light and the tree branches are dancing with the negative space of the sky!
I sat last night and cropped all my incredible student work from Wed night's painting class, but I don't have them with me so you'll have to wait til tomorrow!  I do have to say that I learn as much as my students in these classes, and have gratefully appreciated the intelligent and perceptive comments given to me.  Learning to do anything is a struggle, and to do it with commitment is even harder. 

Back from Grand Marais! Whew~ Sunday Night...

You know, it is incredibly exhausting to spend a weekend creating work, with that being the focus of the time....
And it is especially wonderful if you end up having a pile of supportive people who are totally equally exhausted, and just want to sit and drink wine and watch "Doc Martin" but who instead are willing to help you while you are adjusting to the discomfort of total and complete irritation in an attempt to stuff it and not worry about it while trying to be true to yourself and your art....
okay to most of you that will make no sense whatsoever, and to my painting class, I will explain on Wednesday, and to everyone at the Art Colony in Grand Marais this weekend, THANK YOU!!!!!!
Here's a couple things...
More tomorrow when I've recovered a better level of grammar...

Tuesday, May 7th!

Man, SO much happens in a couple days around here!   So Art4Shelter was absolutely outrageous!  I handed out clipboards at the checkout line, and had so many people there, moving through quickly and loving their art!  Awesomeness!
And the Mayday Parade on Sunday was a delight of dancing Butting goats in our section...
AND finally HERE are some of the wonderful paintings from LAST WEEKS Painting LEssons!  And I am heading up to Grand Marais to paint some more this weekend so STAY TUNED!
oh and NEXT weekend is Art A Whirl and the Closing Party for the "30 Cats in 30 Days" and the weekend after THAT is my "Ireland" Show at Rye!
Stay tuned!

Tuesday April 30

Here are some photos of last week's class work!  I hadn't been able to deal with them until now-  my iphone is kind of working and I can get the photos off of it, and I can talk on the phone, but I need to get another one anyway...
Not sure when that will happen...
You know how you look to your week ahead and don't see any open space for a while...
But it is all good!  Painting Class tomorrow night, Art4Shelter Thursday, helping Duane with goat heads Friday, Saturday may be a possibility but I HATE going shopping on Saturdays and SUNDAY is MAYDAY!!!!!!
Wahoo!

Monday April 29!

Wow!  We are almost through APRIL!  Some spring, aye?  Though we did have to put in sunscreen this weekend, and make Max play in the shade, and give him baths before bedtime that ended up muddy from all the fun he'd had that day!
Here are a couple more of my Art4Shelter submissions- the event is THIS Thursday, May 2 at the Chamber Hotel downtown Mpls!  Preview the art from 6 to7pm, and then GRAB and BUY from 7 to 9!  I will be there, probably doing something for the event.  I get to go help hang it tonight!

April 26, FRIDAY!!!!!

Okay I've been playing with this one... the luxury to play!  This is the gate along the river at Ashford Castle from my family trip in March.  My sister, Beaner (Colleen, to lay-people) and I went for a walk in the morning (yes I know it is awfully dim for morning but believe me!  This was it!) and this was the path towards the town of Cong~

SO gorgeous!

Don't you fret none-   more will be forthcoming!

'Night!

April 21, Sunday!

Thanks all who came and helped make art for Art4Shelter on May 2nd!  Why don't I ever think to take photos of these miraculous things?!?!
Anyway, here is another Irish painting~
This is on the way to Connor Pass on the Dingle Peninsula~  SO gorgeous!

April 18th!

Sorry I haven't posted again in a week!  But I HAVE been painting!  We had a delightful painting class last night, and I will post some of those images later... I realized I neglected to take pics of all of the work because I was distracted...

Anyway, these are two small paintings of Ireland that I did on 8x10 black paper and they will be at the Art4Shelter sale on May 2 at the Burnet Gallery in the Chambers Hotel!  I have a few more I am working on still...

This horizontal one is a small version of a much bigger one I plan on working on tonight when I get Max to bed....
It is really fun to have painting anticipation to look forward to!  I am finding the atmospheric distances from my ireland trip photos to be a delicious challenge...
Stay tuned for some Burren Mountain painting attempts!

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Hmmmm.... like I said, it was snowing when we left Dublin, and this morning woulda had Ireland locked down...  I came around the lakes to work today and was behind cars sliding backwards down Cedar Lake Road... so I google-mapped my location and took a slight detour and came out on the road just between the two totally stuck hills with people slipping backwards on them... yup!  It is April in Minnesota!

And this is another shot out the window of the minivan by my mom!  I think it was on our way up to Ashford Castle.  Perhaps I will paint one of those tonight!

And DON'T FORGET to come to DIAMOND'S ON FRIDAY! 6 to 8pm!  Celebrate the CATS with me!

Wed April 10, 2013

And we have SNOW!  I thought we left that in Dublin...
I was up last night painting, and here is my first big Ireland Painting-  This is from one of my mom's beautiful photos, taken on our second day there as we drove north of Gallway looking for Rosemount, which is the actual town in Ireland that my hometown of Rosemount, MN was named after!  This was probably taken from the minivan window as my sister hurtled us through the narrow, rock-wall lined roads...

Acrylic on canvas, 18x24

DEVIANT DOGS NOW at the Northrup King Building til 9pm tonight!

Sheesh I am terrible!  I forgot to post this earlier this week...
I have these 5 paintings at the "Deviant Dogs" Art Show and Sale on NOW at the Northrup KIng Building, 3rd floor, with all sorts of goodies and actual DOGS there from "A Rotta Love Plus" which is what this art sale is FOR!
Dang!
SO if you can't get there in time, but are interested in purchasing one of these paintings if they don't sell tonight, let me know and I'll get it to you and get the money to Rotta Love!
Wahoo!

"Yes I am Cute!" 10x10 $135

"Feed Me"  10x10 $135

"Yes, Yes Throw It!"  12x12 $185

"Tough Cookie" 12x12 $185

"Whitie"  6x6 $75