Is there anyone besides me that dreads to paint? I mean, I actually LOVE to paint. But getting to that point is so much work. I have to dust and vacuum everything because I have a cat, and there’s no fun in endlessly picking cat hairs out of wet paint. Then once everything is sucked up, I get my painting area ready…and today I decided to break out the Cake Tupperware so that when I squeeze out lovely, juicy, fresh paint, it might stay lovely, juicy, fresh–and most importantly–cat-hair free for as long as possible.

But opening those tubes sometimes makes me wish I was never born. One of my least favorite things to do in the world is opening containers, and somehow ironically, I was blessed to be an artist–a profession that is all about opening containers. Why couldn’t I have been a musician? Oh wait…my acoustic debut album is on its way! Wink. Wink.

I’m very excited to send some paintings to Velocity next month, and I have been starting a lot of new works, and finishing old ones for good measure. My brothers Harry and Michael cut and sanded some lovely birch (they’re all about kitchen cabinets and refinishing and refacing things) and I have let my imagination go (onto these nice surfaces).

This painting will probably take a million turns before it is done, but I thought it would be good to show a progression. So here it is after maybe two visits by me.

In other fronts, I have been sewing, and doing a lot of cutting in preparation to make a quilt with all the scraps left over from making baby quilts for my friends over the past year. I am excited because I usually don’t keep these quilts, but this one I’m going to!

This is Lily, my chief sewing assistant.

Sewing headquarters.

I’m just posting this because I’m in love with my faux laundry room. The colors, the light . . . it’s damn cute!

The opening was really great for LA’s Insurgents. The art inspiring, the food wonderful, and the night relaxing and magical. (A nice contrast from the day! Whew!) The views from Salon Oblique’s balconies are hard to resist. As always, us girls revert to photo shoots because we are…wierd…and I was a photo major before I switched to painting.

A special thank you to those who came to support me! xoxo