Friday, December 26, 2008

Pleasures of Winter

How fun is this?
Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, musicians extraordinaire, have just come out with a brand new CD, Pleasures of Winter , music for Winter and the Holiday Season featuring Jay & Molly's live performances from their annual Public Radio program with a variety of great musicians making guest appearances in the house band including: Harry Aceto, David Bromberg, Peter Davis, Peter Ecklund, Laurel Massé, Brian Melick, Michael Merenda, Ruth Ungar Merenda, Steve Rust, Butch Thompson, Tony Trischka and Sam Zucchini.

I was so delighted when they decided to use a painting of mine for the cover, I think ( hope! ) the spirit of the painting matches the spirit of the music really well.
Thank you Jay & Molly.

Please go visit their site to hear sound clips from this, and all their wonderful music.




Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Lemonade in Winter aka Pet Portraits

It is amazing, there must be 5 inches of snow outside......people in bright red Santa hats are going by on cross country skis accompanied by bounding, cavorting dogs!
It looks like Vermont out there more than a more often balmier island in the Pacific North West , but these are interesting times.....expect the unexpected!

Dogs! Yes Dogs seem to be playing a much larger role in my life than I once thought possible. I thought I was a "cat person" until my heart was stolen by a wolf dog we found wandering through a State Park in Vermont, who adopted us and whom we came to call Daisy. Daisy has gone on to where good and faithful dogs go when they leave us, and Baci, the fluffy Corgi now owns another hunk of my heart.

Now, into my life has come the opportunity to paint some wonderful dogs. I am having a terrific time doing this and thank the people these dogs live with for sharing these four legged Wonders with me.
I would love to keep painting more Pet Portraits, so if you'd like one, let me know! Oh, and I welcome cats and birds, iguanas, horses, cows and pigs, any animal you love!
Thank you!

Here are the first two finished "portraits" :


Reeses and Hershey


Pele

Monday, December 08, 2008

Snowmen and Animals in Sweaters & Jackets!







I LOVE painting snow, snowmen,snowmen who always have multicolored Lifesavers for their smiles! woodland animals in sweaters and wooly hats...gingerbread men and Christmas cookies....candy canes and peppermints falling from the sky, Santas and children making snow angels, babies in wooly sweaters on toy laden reindeer, stockings filled with toys, and happily wrapped presents...... cut paper snowflakes and all the Joyful, Sparkly, and Heart Warming images of this season......



Friday, December 05, 2008

Baci, the Fluffy Floppy Eared Corgi!

Here is Baci!!! my most lovable, darling, stout hearted, sweet, shy yet gregarious at home 18 month old fluffy ( long haired) Corgi whose ears have refused to go up, unless listening to something VERY interesting!
Here, he is nervously trying to decide if the camera is something to be trusted, or not.