Tuesday, July 31, 2007

CREAM FOR RAINDROP, sold


















5x7 signed and framed pastel.
Bidding starts at $100.00, or buy now for $450.00

This may look like Frou-Frou, but it's not. Frou-Frou is a sleek, reserved Siamese, with what the vet says is a really sweet temperament for a Siamese. This, however, is Raindrop, so named because she joined our family on a rainy day. She's a little harried looking, with longish hair, and can't decide whether she's calico or ragdoll. I call her Riff-Raff, which upsets my husband not a little. She has blue, almost white eyes, which are sometimes alarming. My husband says she's intelligent, I say she's vacuous, not a thing up there.

Friday, July 27, 2007

Off to Chattanooga soon

Next Saturday I will be driving to Chattanooga to teach a workshop to some dedicated artists who persuaded me to come teach. They searched and found a studio large enough to accommodate all of us, scheduled the models, and orchestrated all the class details themselves. Thanks, Mimi and Cynthia. I’ll give this everything I’ve got.

But before the workshop begins Sunday morning, I’m stopping by River Gallery to drop off some new work and retrieve some older work. River Gallery wants to have a small reception of sorts Sunday night for the artists in the workshop and anybody who’s ever expressed interest in my pastels. I warned Angie, of River Gallery, that any of us who came would be coming straight from the class, most likely. Filthy jeans, dirty fingernails and all, but we’d be very ready for a glass of wine.

So if anybody out there is anywhere near Chattanooga Sunday night, August 5, please join us at River Gallery from 5:30-7:30. The more the merrier. Click on the "Off to Chattanooga soon" headline above for location and directions.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

RED DRESS AGAIN, sold


















5x7 signed and framed pastel.
Bidding starts at $100.00, or buy now for $450.00

ANNAMARIE, sold



















5x7 signed and framed pastel.
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Monday, July 23, 2007

RACHEL UNDRESSING, sold



















5x7 signed and framed pastel.
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PONYTAIL, sold


















5x7 signed and framed pastel.
Bidding starts at $100.00, or buy now for $450.00

Without trying to sound like the Mutual Admiration Society, I have to say thank-you to Karin Jurick, who has said about me what every artist only dreams of hearing. Thank you, Karin. And thank you for sending people my way. Believe it or not, you are a God-send.

For those of you who don't know Karen's work, see the link on the right column of my blog. She is one artist whose work gives me pangs of jealousy, which I honestly have to deal with. I met Karin at a her frame shop in Stone Mountain, Georgia, umpteen years ago. From that time, when she seemed wistful about doing art one day, to today, Karin has exploded in the art world. Not only is she one of the most driven artists I know, but she is also a master at marketing her work in a truly personal way. She doesn't know this, but she has become my current mentor.

Friday, July 20, 2007

SHELLSEEKERS, sold


















5x7 signed and framed pastel.
Bidding starts at $100.00, or buy now for $450.00

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

JESSICA'S BOOK, sold



















5x7 signed and framed pastel.
Bidding starts at $100.00, or buy now for $450.00

Monday, July 16, 2007

NEW BLACK STOCKINGS, sold


















5x7 signed and framed pastel.
Bidding starts at $100.00, or buy now for $450.00

Thursday, July 12, 2007

ANA, sold


















5x7 signed and framed pastel.
Bidding starts at $100.00, or buy now for $450.00

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

SAND CASTLES, sold


















5x7 signed and framed pastel.
Bidding starts at $100.00, or buy now for $450.00

Monday, July 9, 2007

POINTE SHOES















5x7 signed and framed pastel.
Bidding starts at $100.00, or buy now for $450.00

Sunday, July 8, 2007

DANCER STRETCHING














5x7 signed and framed pastel.
Bidding starts at $100.00, or buy now for $450.00

Friday, July 6, 2007

FROU-FROU AGAIN, sold














5x7 signed and framed pastel.
Bidding starts at $100.00, or buy now for $450.00


Frou-Frou again. She's a dependable model, always posing for me. Never mussed up like Boo or Raindrop (whom I prefer to call Riff-Raff). She's a lot smarter than the other two, but don't tell my husband.

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

GIRL IN A WICKER CHAIR, sold













5x7 signed and framed pastel. Bidding starts at $100.00, or buy now for $450.00



Another night sitting at the computer. It's taken me endless hours, but I'm finally figuring out how to make this blog work. I find that if I just keep at it, no matter how foreign it all looks, eventually I figure it out. if I just had someone around me who was computer literate, I probably would have gotten a lot farther a lot faster. And I'd have had a good night's sleep. Which is exactly what I am going to do right now.