Well I am knee-deep in painting and writing and all things that have to do with graduating in less than four months with my MFA!  The actual show will be in April and I am busy painting as the due date is fast approaching.  But here is some of my in-progress work.  My goal of sorts is to work and work and work and then edit what makes it into the show later.  I will wait and see who plays good together.  I work better that way.

Oh, and I’m really excited for this Sunday, which is the First Sunday event in downtown Riverside where I’ll be at the Sweeney Art Gallery leading the Totes Yo! workshop where we will be stamping and screening cool little stamps and designs onto canvas tote bags.  I’m bringing some blank t-shirts just because I can’t resist.  If you’re in the area though, it’s free for all ages!  Doesn’t get any better than that.  One tote bag per person.

Here are some more in progress works…. Some shapes have found new lives, as beehives or vessels.  I’m working through some of these on a really free-floating, subconscious level, but then when I step back, I see so many connections.  What it all means?  Not exactly sure, but I think that’s the fun of it.  Not knowing, but trusting that it leads somewhere.  Of course, one doesn’t need to go to far before the metaphor of vessel becomes bodily.  Body as container…etc.  All very interesting, as I am truly and forever stymied by the very nature of us and … all of this.

Simple, and satisfying.  Looks like a beehive.

Tree rings…..thought it would be cool.  Ten hours later, not so sure.

And then there’s the nice getaway paintings.  They are my warm-ups now.  I also just learned how to crochet thanks to my gal friend Ramona, who needs to come back and help me as my scarf is shrinking and shrinking, as I keep going and going!?!  Wha?!?  I don’t know what I’m doing but it’s starting to curl?

I have been busy in my studio lately, preparing for my thesis show, which will happen in April, and just wanted to share some in progress works I’ve been hanging around with.  I am pretty excited about all this studio time and I am definitely having a full-on, I can’t believe it’s been 13 years it feels like we just met, love affair with oil paint.  LOVE it!

I just added some new things to the shop and I thought what better time to have a sale than around now!

For the next two days, you can buy 1 print get 1 of equal or lesser value FREE! The sale will end Friday 11/27 9:00 p.m. EST.

I wish I had more time to post things….hopefully this weekend I will have time.  I have been working in my studio and I have some new work, or works in progress.  I think the color is off on the bighorn, but it’s after midnight, my fingers are frozen, and I’m already hungry again (!).

I also am including some photos of my studio in its latest state.  It’s fun to see how it changes and evolves…

Well I hope everyone has a lovely Thanksgiving tomorrow and gets to spend some time with those they care about. I can’t wait to see my family and to play Taboo! and Boggle!

Well I am really digging my new studio, and I am having a fresh start with everything.  After I installed some good lighting, and scraped off all the dried paint on my palette, I was ready to start painting!  After a little hiatus from moving and the heat, it really feels good to get back in the swing of things.  Why is pushing around a buttery, colorful goo so satisfying?

These are all in progress little snippets of things I’m working on right now.

I had an idea of what to do with all this painted paper I had laying around, and I’m going to be assembling something that I hope turns out neat.  We’ll see…I’ll post pics.

I don’t really know what to say about this guy, except that it reminds me of a curled up spider.  And everyone knows I am obsessed with spiders!  I’m still trying to get my boyfriend to go on a Black Widow hunt at night with a flashlight and some tea tree oil infused water spray, but for some reason he doesn’t think that sounds like a good date night!?!