Self Portrait Saturday: Flowers

I’m working on my senior thesis to graduate with my BFA next term. That’s 16 paintings in a series. My theme is abstracted landscapes. I’m looking at doing one that involves using a picture of me covered in a flowery cloth. I started experimenting a couple days ago. Since my cameraman (husband) wasn’t available to do the full body shots that I have in mind, I decided to just see how it would work just on my face. They turned out pretty interesting.

Then I switched to two layers.

And then three, but that didn’t really work as well. But it’s interesting and may work better with more generalized shapes.

Under the weather

dis week i hab a code.

whad that really beans is that I’m just as procrastidaty as usual,

but i hab a buch better reasod for it.

Morning has broken

I probably talk about this too much

I know that there is far more important stuff

But please, is there any possible way

I can get up AFTER the break of day?

Modern Landscapes

I take a lot of pictures. As it happens, I live in a picturesque place. Beautiful mountains are definitely camera and canvas fodder for any artist in the vicinity. Including me. But as I take all these pictures, I stumbled across an interesting idea, which I am probably going to develop into a series as I come across them. Here are a couple photos from my (soon to be) Modern Landscape Series:

The Three Sisters

Our landscape has seven major peaks in it’s skyline. Three of them are grouped together and known as the Three Sisters. This is a picture of them.

Dawn’s Early Light

Rise and Shine

The Remains of the Day

Day is Done

Six Word Friday: Share

I wouldst share my heart today

Pouring love with all I’d say.

I’d wax poetic with tender care

A life and world changing share.

But I am shy. So… bye.

share more

Six word Friday: Bargain

Six words? That IS a bargain!

Self Portrait Thursday: Hair

{I usually try to do these on Saturdays because, let’s face it, I love alliteration. But that hasn’t been happening lately so…. ( Why do I do this, again? )}

I’ve been a redhead for a few years now. Until recently, when I died my hair brown to fairly closely resemble my natural color. I noticed my hair was behaving nicely one day as I was getting ready for bed. So I snapped a couple pictures of it.

 

By the way, I can lift one eyebrow.

Then I took the clips out. Ooh sexy hair.

and then I put my hair back for bed.

Healing Susan

So.

This morning a friend on Facebook posted this link.

http://toddlerplanet.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/how-did-we-get-here/

I went and read this post by the strongest bravest person I’ve seen in quite some time.

If you have a moment to click through and read about her journey and send her some healing thoughts or prayers, you won’t regret it.

For me, the comments are what got me.

When I read it there were 245 comments all saying something very close to the same thing.

Dear Susan, we love you. You are surrounded and bathed in love. You are lifted in healing light. We are thinking of you and sending you love and prayers.

The love I could feel coming off the screen was very nearly palpable, but that wasn’t what got me.

You see, my mother was named Susan.

Reading comment after comment about how Susan is loved and lifted in the light hurts a little, but mostly heals my heart.

Dear Mama,

I love you.

You are surrounded and bathed in love.

You are lifted in healing light.

I am thinking of you and sending you love and prayers.

♥

Six Word Friday: Stop and Go

Once again she says to herself:

Stop procrastinating. Go write a post.

go see melissa. don’t stop!

My boring shoes.

{I’m online all the time. I take pictures for my blog all the time. But I don’t blog all the time. Or even some of the time sometimes. Sorry about that.}

My shoes are boring.

Plain, old, boring tennis shoes that have seen better days.

My son however has pretty awesome shoes.

I found these cool shoes at Goodwill one day.

We got a ton of use out of them, but the side of one finally blew out a couple weeks ago. So off to the shoe store we went.

Actually we went to 3 stores because we didn’t see any that we liked.

Eventually we gave up finding some we liked and looked for some fairly plain ones that didn’t suck.

So that we could do this:

Helpful, isn’t he?

Why are my shoes not like these?

My shoes are so boring.