I just found out about this in the last ten minutes and totally just ordered my sketchbook!  I love projects like these.  I even spent the extra 20 to have my sketchbook digitized because that is too cool…I loathe scanning.  Zzzzz.  Mmmmm.  Check it out and participate.  Spread the word.  Sammi you deserve better than Ronnie.

Here are some of the paintings that went off to the Czech Republic and some that I just haven’t gotten around to adding them to my site yet.

I have soooo many more to add.  And my photoshop is ancient and slow and my mac mini is soooo tiny and microscopic.  Too many pots on the stove as usual.  Really thinking I just need a new oven.

In other news, I am house hunting, obsessing, thinking, sunbathing, swimming, spraying black widow egg sacs, going to the post office, hanging out with friends, seeing my lovely cat and taking her on long, lazy walks that more or less resemble long pauses and long sniffs at the inner crevices of unsuspecting plants.

The disaster that is moving:

Well I never thought I could get that place empty, and I had to enlist a LOT of help because a 1444 square foot house is not easy.  In 100 degree weather.  Without a fun, new place to bring things.  (For the time being, I’m staying at the BF’s)  But really, everything went swimmingly and it did seem like the stars had been aligning for little old me.  I just need to keep positive and figure out how to be grounded in an utterly ungrounded situation.  That is where kid’s classes come in.  Kids, with all their mini melodramas and the funny things that they say, and their undeniable creativity, seem to bring a lightness and a quirkiness to the situation, especially when you only have them on loan for a few hours, and get to return to a quiet place afterwards.

These are some glimpses of the “Exquisite Corpse” project with the Huntington Beach Art Center’s Art Camp kids, which turned out amazingly awesome and I just had to take pictures.  I sure can’t wait til the day I can actually make art again!  Only the universe knows that answer.

Today, me and the BF are going to hit the OC Fair to see our friend’s band play, Hell and Half of Georgia, and also mosey on over to the Children’s Art Exhibition section where many of my students will have work on display from my “Drawing for Little Tots” drawing class.  Can’t wait to see and take pictures!!

I am so behind with my sharing, I guess that is what packing and moving does to you, but I did want to share the latest wood relief I made for the HBAC’s annual art auction a few weeks ago.  It has gone to a good home, and now I am myself trying to find a good home.  I think I may have found it, but a few more days will tell.

I’m done with school!  For months, it has been late nights, early mornings, non-stop drama, insanely busy 12-hour school days, days where I had to balance TAing two classes, making my own art, assigned readings, writing my thesis, working 2 part-time jobs, showering and eating, the prospect of moving, job hunting and proposal writing, a cat and a boyfriend.  And then one day (last Friday) I turned in my thesis paper to the lady at Grad Division, and she said in all of 3 seconds, “Thanks!”, and I said, “That’s it?  I’m done?  She replied, “Yep!”  That’s it.  In a matter of one minute, my entire three years of school had become a memory.  I walked away with a skip in my step and the need to call someone to see if it’s real.  A few days of laying by the pool and consolidating my student loans, and yep, it’s real!  The rest of my life has finally begun!

Here are images from my Thesis Show.  Expect more from me in the future!