With Child

I was contacted last month by a sweet friend I hadn't seen in over thirty years. He asked me to paint a portrait of his lovely wife as a birthday gift. I've been keeping the portrait under wraps blog-wise so I wouldn't spoil the surprise. Now that she's officially begun her next trip around the sun I'm sharing the painting. She's beautiful...I hope I did her justice.

And I am painting other things today, just not as much as I'd like. I've been getting my classroom ready so I can do a training for new special education teachers. Ninety percent of my creativity has been happily going in that direction. I'll post what the remaining ten percent has been up to tomorrow.

"With Child"

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I'm running a big sale on my paintings through the end of August. Almost everything in my gallery is 60% off. I'm only keeping my most current work (paintings on page 1) at the listed prices. If there's something you'd like, please let me know by message or comment so I can manually adjust the price. Thanks!!! http://www.dailypaintworks.com/artists/kali-parsons-3935/artwork

Not Going There Again

Took my boys shopping today because they needed shorts.  And me, well, I needed nothing.  But I looked anyway just in case I needed to be impulsive or anything like that.  And, by golly, I found the cutest T-shirt.  It wasn't with other shirts that looked like it, so somebody must've just set it there as an unwanted.  But I dug it.

I strolled around while I waited for my guys and I stumbled upon a pile of shirts just like the one I had on.  And, oh yay, it was on sale.  I held it close as I was already in love, my eyes tracked upward, and there was a mannequin wearing the very shirt I was holding.  A pregnant mannequin.

Oh...

And I delicately set the shirt down on the pile and walked away.  Nope, not going there again.

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