The Falling Stars

12"x16"
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My Little Kittenfish titled this one :) Well, her original title was "Is a Mommy an a Naomi", but after a minute she reconsidered and titled it "Fawwing Stars" which just seemed perfect!

Chrysalis

11"x14"
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If you're feeling like I've gotten off track with the whole daily painting thing.... you might be right. Life feels very very strange right now. So come along for the ride, and I'll keep sharing beautiful and interesting things, I promise. I also promise I'll get back to more traditional dailies just as soon as I make it out to Raleigh and buy some more of those adorable little canvases :)

This, my friends, is a newly hatched fairy! I don't know how she managed to hatch out of her chrysalis fully dressed, and she didn't stick around to tell me- one of life's great mysteries. Perhaps with further study I will figure it out.

WIP

flying goldfish!

Gentle Moment

9"x12"
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Just something sweet. I can't help it, I love paintings of boobie time :)

Golden

9"x12"
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I seem to have an ongoing fascination with goldfish.... ongoing fascination, weird obsession, whatever you call it when an artist does it. Eccentricity? I also don't know what you call the silly little big-bellied goldfish, but this just made sense to me :)

Sleeping In

16"x20"
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See, I told you, something finished! And very cute and silly.

Not from personal experience though. First off, because I'm not an owl, and second, because although I would like to sometimes, I don't actually sleep in a nest. Also, my little girl loves to sleep, and is amazing at it. Just like everything else :)

And another WIP

you'll get to see something that is actually finished tomorrow, I promise. there's a lot going on around here right now :)

WIP

today was a very strange day, and not one that included the finishing of any paintings..... so here's a gorgeous little portrait work-in-progress. love you guys!

and now I'm going back to a painting I just started, of a pregnant goldfish mermaid. life stays interesting around here.

Rebirth

12"x16"
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And back to the wonderful weirdness! Naomi modeled the hands for me..... and obviously, we have been spending a lot of time on garden-type-stuff lately :)

We even planted some more seeds today! I'm afraid we might be going a bit overboard, but it's fun, and I'm sure you can always find good homes for plants. Today it was marjoram, chamomile, and lime basil. And I kid you not, the lime basil seeds are already swollen a bit and looking gelatinous.... I'm a little afraid we're going to have little lime basil tadpoles or something!,

The Last Apple

9"x12"
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I do love this one :) Really, I've loved all of them in the series I've done! But my art seems to be going in a different direction, so fair warning, I believe this will be the last one like this. Not saying I'll never paint an apple again, but no more simple, An-Apple-Alone-Wint-Her-Thoughts type compoaitions, and least not for a long time,

I do so love the light..... especially today. I spent the morning hauling five gallon buckets of horse poop from my truck bed to my garden through the rain. So now I'm all wore out, but in a happy, dreamy, horse-poop-covered way.

The Prize

9"x12"
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Another one of those crazy ideas that came to me in a dream :)

And of course there are..... mermaid boobies! Or, if you're offended by mermaid boobies, they can be merman boobies. Nobody is offended by merman boobies.

And now, on to the Big Question- Why does a mer-anything have a bellybutton?

Silkie

5"x7"
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Silly little puppy from last Spring's Whimsical Women Show. Dogs are friggin' hard to paint! And not necessarily because they have no attention span, because I obviously cheated and used a photo for this one.... I think it's all the fur. Hair. Whatever. Apparently I prefer painting skin.

And NO, that does not mean that the next painting will be a hairless cat. Both of my little shoulder-voices are telling me that would be even more difficult, lol....

Tea on Blue

5"x7"
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Not going to lie, today has been back and forth and all over. And snowy. And I got a lot of painting done, but nothing finished but this little one! Ah, well, we'll see how tomorrow goes.

Sweets for the Sweet

5"x7"
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Just sold several of my most favorite paintings through etsy- doing my happy dance! Hugs to everybody!

The Discovery

16"x20"
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Just a little off-kilter, maybe.... what can I say, I dislike Valentine's Day about as much as the average bear :)

Nursing in Pearls

9"x12"

boobie time!

This Little Piggy

9"x12"
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Sometimes a day, or a week, or something just isn't any fun. Gr. Sometimes it's just lovely until a certain time of day and it all goes downhill.
But there's always cute little piggies to make you smile again :)

The Smallest Touch

9"x12"
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Just a whimsical little boobie time doodle :)

Spring

16"x20"
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For those of you about to tell me it's actually still winter.... *fingers in ears* LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LAAAAAAAAAAA.....
The daffodils are blooming merrily here, and this painting came to me and just demanded my attention! Love it :) Of course, I always love painting my wonderful little Naomi :)

Garlic Clove on White

4"x4"
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There you go! A painting that will drive away vapires AND the flu!

Another Avacado Half

5"x7"
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Hope you guys aren't sick of this composition.... it's just so much fun to paint! Pretty colors, great textures, the seed is so wonderfully rounded with the light coming down like that.... sometimes you just gotta play favorites :)

And now I've got to run around and get legos picked up before naptime.... then back to painting, I promise. I'm working on another old-favorite bit of subject matter....

Three Chocolates

4"x4"
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Om nom nom.
Seriously, the possible Valentine's connection didn't even occur to me till just now! I've just got a thing for chocolate. And, today, for purple.

Sleeping In

16"x20"
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Just something sweet and cuddly....

Waiting

16"x20"
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Part of being an artist, especially a self-taught one, is being on this endless quest for your "voice" or your "style" or whatever you want to call it. And of course, I've felt like I was in a state of "almost there" for my entire artistic career :) But I'm really enjoying this piece!

My Little One, in an egg, a white raven watching over her. Both of them waiting.

Gold Trim - Sketch

5"x7"
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I've never tried to paint this teacup before- always been intimidated by it! Starting out with a close up sort of sketch is usually a good strategy for me :)

In other news- I've got worms! On the way to take Her Highness to dance class today we stopped and picked up a pound of earthworms, so now I have pets that eat my compost. They live here in the studio now.

Little Rhino

5"x7"
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Had a LOT going on this weekend (no, none of it football related) and so this is just a reworking of a little daily from a while back that *I* think is adorable :)

Flower Cup

5"x7"
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Just something to warm you up. Because if your weather is anything like ours right now, you need it!

Sketch of Payson

6"x8"
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A fun little portrait :)
I was thinking "Payson in an Easter Hat" or something, but it was at her birthday and not Easter.... "Payson in a Sun Hat" but the brim is all wrong for that....
Ooh, I should paint a kid in a sun hat!
Anyways, eventually I reminded myself that it's just a sketch, and that's always an ok thing to say in the title. Titles are silly, aren't they? I mean, I'm a painter, not a writer!