Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Life's little upsets

Make plans and life interrupts with surprises. Last week my mom took a dive and broke her hip. I have been with her since then and not painting. Now that she is in her recouperating institution, I should be able to get back to the studio today. I do have a painting in progress and will take photos today so I can show what I have been doing. Until later........

Monday, July 20, 2009

Open house

Friends from my "other life" came to the open house. Sheena, Cheryl, Boby, Andrea and Ishrat were my buddies. I will miss the fun we had at the office but I sure love my free time to paint now!

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In the studio before everyone came.


I could only display a few of my paintings in the gallery. There was another show installed. So we chose some of our favorites and made a small display of some of my previous work.


After being in the studio for a couple of weeks, we decided to have an open house to show friends and family where I will be working and painting. I am so happy with the space. I have a feeling that it will be even more wonderful in the winter when the weather is not as beautiful as it has been this summer.
Dan and I ordered sandwiches and veggies and I baked bars. We had coolers of pop and beer and a couple of boxes of wine. As always we over estimated what people would eat and we have lots of beer, wine and pop left over. Enough for the rest of the summer at least.
Lots of good friends and relatives stopped by and stayed longer than we ever imagined. Here are a few pictures of me, the people and the studio cleaned up for the open house.