Snow Angel

"Snow Angel" is my 7th painting this year. My daughter is so beautiful and sweet I had a hard time trying to pick which picture I wanted to paint. I think I really needed two weeks to paint this instead of one. Then I started thinking, since my goal is to paint one painting a week maybe by the end of the year, I will hopefully have learned a lot and next year will be able to fix all the paintings I've painted this year.

I am happy with this painting. I wanted to paint her in her black coat that she wears everywhere, but as I painted the red underlayer I liked it too much to change it. Then I took a black and white picture of the painting and thought it looked really good black. Let me know what you think looks best.

I finally got my Southwest Art Magazine. My subscription had expired and my husband renewed it for me for Christmas. I look forward to it each month and find new favorite artists. This month there's a wonderful figurative painter named Marci Oleszkiewicz ( pronounced o-la-skevitch). I love her use of light and shadows. You can see her work in the Waterhouse Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA. Each day as I try to run on the treadmill I find a painting I like and look at it for 1 mile and then turn to a new one after each mile. Yes I am crazy about art. I told my Mom today as we drove by some bushes and trees that are starting to show some color of spring that I can't drive by without wanting to paint it. I'm still having a hard time going to sleep at night because I'm so excited about painting. But I did buy a Williams Sonoma Appetizer cookbook today.

So that's this week. Next week I'm changing things up a bit. I'm going to finish a painting that I started last year. I decided that was ok. Otherwise I'll never have time to work on it.

Everyone in our house is feeling better, including me. So I think next week will be a lot better. Until then.