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Raspberry Twists
Raspberry Cheesecake with White Chocolate Star 100.00 plus shipping 5" x 7" oil on archival linen boardRaspberry Knockout ( sold ) 5" x 7" oil on archival linen board"Painting is not only to copy the...
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Naughty Friday Red
Red Orchids, 40" x 60" Watercolor on d'Arches Paper“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.”~Georgia O'KeeffeRed has passion,...
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No Nuns, They Had No Nuns
When I went to Main Street Bakery yesterday, they had sold all the Chocolate Nuns. Yes, there was a run on nuns in Dallas this Sunday. Hm, could it be the yule tide rush? Would it, could it, be some...
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Deep Cleansing Breaths
These things you see, the tea, the apple, will be gone soon because I am munching on them as I sit and write this morning. Life and stuff won yesterday, not the cakes, not the paintings. Those I get to...
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What Will Win Today?
Transitions are rarely smooth or easy, no matter what they say. Believe me, I have been through a gazillion of them. You would think it would get easier. It does not. Only the ability to recognize them...
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Life Won
Ahh, those pesky lungs of mine, we're waiting for tea water to boil. On days this happens, or weeks, I have to just do one thing and then the next and treat my self rather gently. I am sure anyone can...
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Santa Came Early
Delight, sheer delight is so rare, but here we have it. This is what folks woke up to yesterday in New Orleans. While my body tries to heal itself, I hope you will just sit back and think about the...
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Santa Baby
As promised, the House on Eagle Street. Forget the Mansions on St. Charles, the City Park Stroll, or the late Al Copeland's Lakefront extravaganza. Head over to Carrollton near the bend in the river...
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Happy Holidays
I thought you all deserved some particularly tasty treats for the holidays.While I recuperate, paint, and get ready for the transition to the new site, oh and do the holidays... here're some goodies...
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Ring Out the Old, Ring In the New
Painting A Day is in transition and I am very excited. I am truly hunkered down until Monday, January 5th of this New Year. I wanted to wish you all Happy New Year. I am very excited to be returning to...
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January Pink Sale
When I was married to Media Man, January was for the Pink Sale at Neiman Marcus and my birthday. All the holidays and New Year's hoopla done, nothing like wonderful luxury linens to get the year...
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Exploratory Drawings
Getting to know you drawings are important. The first time I draw a new model, or start a new piece, I take some time to get to know not only shoulders, or breasts or ankles, but specifically that...
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Thumbnails of Grand Isle
Thumbnails are invaluable. These are searching ones. Searching for dynamics to support the pink blossoms. The luxurious pink blossoms are going into a Chaos series piece. I am looking through photos of...
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Why Robert Redford Is A Hero
Imagine my delight when I came upon this in yesterday's paper: a full supplement about Sundance that underscored the value of art to everyone. Not just artists, not just art careerists, but our...
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Taking Time to Set the Stage
Since there is no pencil drawing on the Chaos pieces after the studies are done, it is important to get those major directional forms down right away.And to establish some key color and contrast...
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Somerset Paper
Those white spaces you can still see are lovely Somerset paper. It's a printmaking paper, suited to water and inks. I am using watercolors.I launched the Chaos series on Somerset in late fall of 2005,...
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Never Ending Brilliance
"Never ending brilliance". Wouldn't that be a great thing to call your own? I love that Tiffany ads have always been page 3 upper right in the New York Times. Open the paper, there it is. My heart...
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Post Inauguration: To Work We Go
What must it be like this morning, that first day in the Oval Office? The parades have marched , the dances have been danced. That first moment behind the desk, is the firsts of many firsts today. What...
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Places In Between
Pink Blossoms.Blue skies.Dark recesses.And bits of chaos. There is a lot to be said for staying in the present. Eckhardt Tolle builds his whole philosophy on it. So do the buddhists. But to move is to...
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Jason Wu and The Spotlight
Simple. Elegant. And Flowing. Not bad for dresses, words or brushstrokes. Even better for the artist. Can you imagine what Jason Wu's life became once that ivory gown was revealed? I saw the interviews...
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That Awkward Teenage Phase
Gangley arms.Feet too big.And voices not quite there.There is a time in paintings that is awkward, the parts are almost there, but not quite yet. The balance is just about to be, but is slightly out of...
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Today Is my Birthday
Today IS my birthday and I was a bit Naughty Friday, I delayed posting until today. Because I could not keep this under wraps a minute longer You'll find today's post there, in my new home. I love...
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Craving Pastries ?
I am craving pastries. More to the point I am craving to paint them. I stumbled across a box of empty linen canvas boards in my supply cubby this week. And now here I am in a Proust pastry painting...
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I'm Painting Pastries. Want Some?
Let Them Eat Cake, 5" x 7" original oil paintings on linen in this sell out series will be available to order until the cut off November 17th, 2011 at midnight. If you like to indulge, believe that...
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Religieuses
I am at it again..sometimes I need to paint a pastry. Especially ones with white paper skirts. They give me joy. And capture moments for me. Lines that shimmer, color that makes me itch to paint it,...
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