Our Sunflower

My husband, David, is an amazing photographer.  And you know I love to paint.  Well, after years of each following our own artful bliss, we finally did a piece together. 

David has taken some amazing photographs (see his work here) and a few of them he's been transferring onto wood.  He has to print the picture on paper, adhere it to the wood, then get the paper bits off while leaving the image behind.  I don't know the technicalities, but that's the basics.  He'd had one such piece hanging beside his desk for a while now and out of the blue he asked me if I'd like to add to it with paint. 

Um, yes!!!  Lemme at it!

So I'm not sure if I made it awesome or if I totally ruined it, but either way I had a blast doing it.  What fun it was to create a collaborative piece!!!

Click here to view my gallery.  Most of my paintings are for sale.

 

I'd love for you to share my art and blog with the links below.  Thanks!

Cat-astrophe

I'm thoroughly convinced that my kid likes torturing me.  Here's how I know.

I'll be at work teaching my awesome students and my phone alerts me that I have a text.  When I finally get around to checking it, it's usually a photo of our pets being seriously adorable.  And there's nothing quite so adorably distracting as a sweet dog or cat totally waiting to be snuggled.

But today I think I realized that my kid is torturing the pets, too.  Not that the pets are hurt in any way.  And not that they even have a clue that something is terribly, terribly wrong.  But today's mom torture photo text was a photo of our kitten and our old cat on my little guy's disgusting unmade bed.  Mess can be seen on the bed, on the floor near the bed, and even out into the hallway.  And the reason I know this must be torture to the cats, too, (though they choose to remain on that bed for some reason) is that the kitten has his eyes closed and the old cat has one eye closed and the other just barely open.  Please scroll down a bit to check out just what I mean. 

The can't even look at their surroundings!

I think maybe, just maybe, that tonight is a good night to make the kid clean his room.

Click here to purchase this painting.

I'd love for you to share my art and blog with the links below.  Thanks!

 The Evidence