On my walk around the hood, gorgeous flowering cactus blossoms that look like roses, and those colors!

I’m lovin work by this Mariette

Happy Mother’s day to any mommas reading this blog! Hope your day is lovely and you are honored as you should be!

This little plate was given to me by my mom when my son was a wee little one. Those years go by fast.

My boy is now a grown man, it hardly seems real.

Wish I could see my mom today.

I will be trying a violet martini! According to artist Michele Parliament, it is “heavenly”

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hrtagrm66/7173283924/ it does sound so good and here is a link for my own reference http://www.sweetsaurus.com/monin-gourmet-violet-syrup-750ml/ But then, my favorite gum of all time is violet gum, which use to be easy to find when I was a kid, now its a bit of a challenge, but can be purchased online. http://www.chowardcompany.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=OS&Product_Code=03000&Category_Code=GM

I’m loving work by artist Scott Fife

Cool time lapse video of one of his heads: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EARTfmKpOI

We have had a handful of visitors walk through our home that is now up for rent. Odd feeling to have people going through one’s home and even odder imagining others living in it. In the final analysis there are a lot of factors which add up to a match or not. One aspect that I have enjoyed is the comments about the art. There is no point in having art if others don’t see it and my work has been low profile since last year due to the house hunting efforts. We expect a return visits this Sunday and new visitors on Monday. Nice getting the traffic. In the mean while we continue to polish and refine areas that need attention, like the windows from the outside. I will admit, I rarely do windows!

Last year at this time my husband and I were looking at houses for sale in the area. Our favorite house was in Watsonville, Tindall Ranch.

It was a very large property on a sun drenched knoll. The house is a Mexican Hacienda type design built with high end materials and painted very artistically. No amount of wishing would make it possible for us to afford. Still, we enjoyed being inspired by it and seeing it in person. One draw back, the ticks.

While my time is for the most part currently usurped by our transition from one home to another, I have been able to do a drawing or sketch here and there.

This is a study for a painting, titled “Listening Fence”, the idea came from a dream I had, although in the dream, the figures were more angst and the heads were ended before the eyes start. that still could happen I am undecided until I start the painting.
I may change the composition a bit, depends on my intuition when I begin the painting.

This is also a sketch/study, the idea of being rooted. I may take that further…

I drew it on a piece of card board, that is all that was around at the time.

May 19th, the “Barbie as Gendered Object” exhibit will open at the Ann Street Gallery. If you live in NYC have a look, there you will see “Pucker” among other altered Barbie beauties.

I have been forcing myself to not spend too much time in the yard. In Calabasas the roses are in full, glorious bloom and are so lovely and fragrant. I do adore a cut flower and will be planting roses in Ojai for certain. If you are new to this blog, I am moving from Calabasas, Ca to Ojai, Ca. Both locations have their merits.

On the kitchen table, yellow beauties:
and on the living room coffee table, pretty in pink:

I tried to feed the birds by making these orange cups from a recipe I saw on pinterest.

I do believe that they ate the whole thing including the string inside, peanut butter, oatmeal, sun flower seeds and bird seed.

Thought I had a very sick pug on my hands, turns out he is just an old man :b

This is a pic of our house going up for rent May 15th, looking for good tenants~~

In the back, a bit of an oasis:

A lovely covered patio area with grill.

Its a little cluttered with my many plants which I will be removing soon. The house is in a safe and quiet neighborhood. We love a Mediterranean style house and have eleven contented years, but times and needs change
That is bout it for an update, I hope to be creating a lot more soon.

Coming soon to Ann Street Gallery: Barbie as Gendered Object.
Barbie as Gendered Object I so wish I could see the exhibit in person but there are no road trips on the horizon for me for a while. I will have a few pieces in the show, you may remember I made many pieces during Barbie Redux. The curator, Virginia Walsh was very pleasant to work with.

The lovely Petunia will be one of the pieces on view.

making me cheery

“The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think you step out of thought and you see clearly that the THINKER is NOT you.”

There has been so little time for art the past few weeks as my husband and I transition from one house to another and supplies are packed and displaced. We are down sizing quite a bit and that has confused things as well, because I could probably fill a whole garage with my art and materials, oh yeah I did :b I’ve been trying to be rid of stuff and pack other stuff up for my parents to sell in a garage sale. I do have a truck load for them. Lesson be learned, don’t be a pack rat (sounds better than hoarder!)

Did manage to do a little drawing and collaging, not all that thrilled with my collage, I see it is a form of expression one needs to work at or take lessons from Karenann Young!

This is prismacolor pencils on Bristol vellum. I had to stop as I wore out my sharpener. For real. “Hatched”

“Where there is smoke…”

I’m listening to Kat Edmonson and loving her voice and music. I Have home made beef jerky cooking in the oven, while we try to eat beef only once every other week I do love to snack on jerky but it is way to costly in the grocery store.