At least I have an excuse for not posting for a month...we moved. I hate moving, especially twice in a year. But the new house is big(ish) and airy and very private. It has lovely tropical plants all the way around and a hot tub on the back lanai. My room is much bigger, so I have room for my computer and a drawing table. Now I have no excuse not to get something done. I'm not finished sorting and arranging, much less finding everything I need. A lot of stuff is in plastic bins in the garage, so it's going to take a while.
The house is painted in several colors...the slate blue is lovely and soothing, but the egg-yolk yellow and acid green have got to go! We were hoping to have it done before we moved in, but there's so much delay and complications in buying a house that we weren't even sure about it until about a week before our move date. Nearly every room in the house has one wall painted green or yellow, and the colors are so gaudy and (as my friend Trish said) "contentious."
Here's my room before I moved in. The yellow and green don't look nearly as bad in the picture as they do in real life. That ceiling fan is great, though; keeps the room nice and cool without air conditioning. Outside the huge window is the back lanai with palms and heliconias.

The Year of Doing Nothing

I've been in Hawai'i over a year, and I feel like I've done nothing all year. I made a few little items here and there, sewed some clothes for my sister, but I haven't done any drawing (not much, anyway). I'm hoping this will be followed by the Year of Doing Much...I'd like to design and sew some clothes, do a lot of drawing, some printmaking, maybe some painting and papermaking, make jewelry and beadwork, and a lot of other things.
After working at a job for 3 years before I moved back to Hawai'i, where I had to do a lot of stuff all day, I felt like my creative juices were being depleted. At home I didn't have the time or energy to do much. Now I have no excuse, since my main job is to stay at home with my mother, do the grocery shopping and some cooking, take my mom out for her errands, and generally be a housewife (bizarre!).
There will be some big changes soon (stay tuned) and I'm hoping to find inspiration in the changes and my surroundings. Plus I have got to get really serious about making money from my art - online or wherever. If any of my readers has suggestions about how to promote my art online, I'd love to hear it. If anyone would like to be my agent, I'd like that too.

Same Subject, Different Media

After posting the drawing of the pot with the draped cloth, I realized that a watercolor version has been sitting in the living room for nearly a year. So here it is. This one is 6" x 4".

Little Drawing

This little colored pencil drawing is about 4 x 5.5 inches, done on a scrap of mat board. I think it's about 20 years old, but I did several versions. Sometimes I like to do the same drawing over and over just to see what variations will occur.

Poppy Shadow

This is from a series of flowers I did in pastel. They were about 24"x30", and I discovered working on these that I did not like to work big. I prefer doing small works. But I do love this image.

My Favorite Etchings

Miss Otis Regrets
Pears In Snow
After all these years, these are still my favorites. I think they must be at least 20 years old; I've printed them in different colors, sold a fair amount of them, and "Miss Otis" won a few printmaking and small works awards. They are about the size of playing cards, the results of some experimenting I was doing with open-bite etching.

Autumn

Woman in a Veil

Scribble

These remind me of the handwriting exercises I had to do in Catholic School when we were learning to write in script.

Girl in a Hat Redux

A fashion drawing done in Illustrator, inspired by the sketch below.