Blue Cat '12

this is what I'm working on today.  It is coming along ok although I am trying to be realistic it is so difficult.  It really helps you to put it on your computer screen to see how you are doing on it..it is very telling.  This is my cat Smucker.  Last night I had an interesting experience..I woke up to go to the bathroom (I assume that is why)  and I looked up in front of me..I"m still in bed..but there before me about 4'x7' is a white cat looking just like my white cat.  I also felt calm.  It didn't freak me out at all.  I have been trying to figure it out and I understand it.  We are kind of upset here because a friend has a mysterious illness..and I think this is the way the spirits are showing me that it will be ok.  They usually come to me in a non threatening way.  Recently my angel (a large stainless steel one 4' tall) was lit up with hundred of stars..they looked more like spiderwebs but I loved it and that was the morning after I'd helped my sister's friend who had just died.  My sister was the one freaked out.  She didn't call me for a week.. but it is fine now.  My family in general is freaked out by me.  I try not to pay them any attention.  This cat that appeared I asked  to come back.  The spirits usually take the familiar form of something in my room so I won't be freaked out.  It lingered for a while..I love that the spirits came to me in the form of a cat..how great is that. 

geraniums 06 #2

here's another one..i love all of the colors and the touch of light coming in at the back...

geraniums 06

this is a painting i did for class..i love geraniums and their leaves are so great for painting..

orchids 07

i used to grow orchids i just have a few now but i can paint one from memory for the rest of my natural born days. it is like they are burned into my memory and i still love them. the top right is a brassia, the lower left is a bulbophyllum, isn't it weird, the large red one is a cattlyea, the one in the lower center is called dracula..it's blackish blue...fun

campus snow scene 08

this is a spot outside of the studio window that I chose to paint in class. the instructor said the stairs would present many problems (on the right) but I like what I did on them. if you look closely you can see a few figures here and there. this is one of my favorite paintings i think because of the colors merged with the snow.