This painting has really been driving me crazy. It got really inconsistently painted overall when I started adding more colors. I might have salvaged it by adding more black overall to bring it back together. I realize that it has no composition to lead or rest the eye which is a problem. I am glad to be done with the painting and I hope something good comes from it but I am ready to move on. I am anxious to get started on some assignments I received in the mail from Bob Burridges' workshops. I am looking forward to "having more meaningful intentions in my artwork" and better abstract compositions. My goal is to be able to fill a gallery with my work and have it look like it was all done by the same artist, have gorgeous color, interesting compositions, excitement and organic beauty. I want it to tell a story of an utopia where humankind and nature live harmoniously and peacefully with each other.

I'm working on a new painting to benefit an aid project to Swaziland, Africa. It feels good to do something I love and help out a worthy cause. My ideas of a Jacob's Ladder coincided with this project and resulted in this painting called "Soul Passages: A Tribute to the AIDS Victims of Swaizland". The painting is not finished and I am still seeing faces in it and painting them in.
I want to paint happy paintings to lift the spirit but this one is turning out dark and sad. If no one wants to buy prints of it, I hope it can at least be used to raise awareness for their cause.

I haven't been able to paint since September 24 because I'm getting ready for the upcoming Thornebrook Art Show. I will have a nice set of prints for sale and I'm proud of their quality. My husband cut the mats for me and that really helped speed the process along. It would have taken me the rest of the week to do myself.
It seems like months since I have painted, although it has been weeks. It is too bad I had to interrupt the process because I had four directions I wanted to go in and develop further. Now I am behind on graphic design work also, but hopefully I can paint this week. I am almost intimidated to start again but if I am not painting I feel like the life is draining from me. I need it like air or water. Or maybe it is not that essential. I need it like physical exercise to feel alive and healthy.

I'm posting pictures from the SCORE space where I hung my work for the Artwalk this past Friday night. I had a wonderful night. A lot of people came through that were really excited about the work. You could see a sparkle in their eyes and a connection to the art with their minds, that's a benefit I never expected when showing my work. I always thought it would be awful to try to sell anything for a living but then I sold my first piece at an art show and was hooked. The people taking the Artwalk are a concentrated group who love art and that makes it even more fun for the artist.
I sold the "Garden Madonna" painting and three prints, topping off the evening beautifully.