december baby

6 x 6 inches, oil painting on gessoed board

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Friend Friday PRINT SALE!

Instead of Black Friday, let's have a Friend Friday print sale! So many of you have become dear friends! As you shop this busy weekend, remember prints are for sale in the Etsy shop! Buy as gifts or for yourself (or send the link to someone who needs help shopping for you!)!

Use coupon code thankful2015 to save 20%. Good through Sunday.

*photo credit to Lisa for her awesome nine square!

happy thanksgiving!

 

“Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: 

I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

8 x 8 inches, oil painting on gessoed board

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sweater weather

6 x 6 inches, oil painting on gessoed board

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nutty for a flower

6 x 6 inches, oil painting on gessoed panel

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when you wish upon a star

My dream came true!

Thanks, Mom and Dad, for the crayons, markers, colored pencils and finger paint, and for believing that I was the best artist in the whole world! Thank you, Eileen Jelly Bean, for leftover computer paper you brought home from college!

Thank you to my assistant and best sister, Sharie. When I was playing National Geographic with my stuffed animals underneath a pine tree and sorting my old crayons by hue, you were playing with your baby-dolls and programming the family VCR. See how life turns out?

And a special thank you to YOU fabulous art collectors and art enthusiasts. I couldn't have my dream job without you!

6 x 6 inches, oil painting on gessoed board

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Paris, je t'aime

later that night

i held an atlas in my lap

ran my fingers across the whole world

and whispered

where does it hurt? 

it answered 

everywhere

everywhere

everywhere

~Warsan Shire

6 x 6 inches oil painting on gessoed board

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sounds fuzzy

6 x 6 inches, oil painting on gessoed board

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nosey neighbor

6 x 6 inches, oil painting on gessoed board

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honor

6 x 8 inches, oil painting on gessoed board

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well... this is awkward

6 x 8 inches, oil painting on gessoed board

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don't pin my tail !

6 x 6 inches, oil painting on gessoed panel

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did I hear CAKE?

6 x 6 inches, oil painting on gessoed board

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neck and neck

6 x 8 inches, oil on gessoed board

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i get a kick out of you

6 x 8 inches, oil painting on gessoed board

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you'll be in my heart

6 x 8 inches, oil painting on gessoed board

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harmony

6 x 8 inches, oil painting on gessoed board

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anything you can do

6 x 8 inches, oil painting on gessoed board

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monkey see, monkey do

6 x 8 inches, oil painting on gessoed board

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for better or worse

6 x 8 inches, oil painting on gessoed board

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pumpkin season!

Did anyone else fall in love with the Google squirrels today?!

6 x 8 inches, oil painting on gessoed panel

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first come, first served

6 x 8 inches, oil painting on gessoed board

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you take the cake

you didn't see me. I was never here.
 
6 x 6 inches, oil painting on gessoed board

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beefcake

6 x 6 inches, oil painting on gessoed board

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serve it up

6 x 6 inches, oil painting on gessoed board

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and gonna eat it too

6 x 6 inches, oil painting on gessoed board

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fur real

6 x 8 inches, oil painting on gessoed panel

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out cold

6 x 8 inches, oil painting on gessoed board

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hey Baby.

6 x 6 inches, oil painting on gessoed board

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So this is the second time (that I know of) that the bidding and buying haven't worked when a painting went live on eBay. The bid/buy buttons just aren't there! I'm so sorry some of you are having problems with it! I ended the auction of "hey Baby." so the collector who was trying to Buy it Now could buy it through paypal. Just wanted to let you know in case you were looking for it to bid. Please let me know if you ever have issues! Thank you all for your continued support and passion! Sharie (for Kimberly)

smokey

6 x 6 inches, oil painting on gessoed panel

A few days ago I checked the weather and the forecast said 

"72 degrees and Smokey" ! What?! Thank you, firefighters, for your bravery. 

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why did the armadillo cross the road?

6 x 6 inches, oil painting on gessoed panel

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hedging my bets

6 x 6 inches, oil painting on gessoed panel

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pooped

6 x 6 inches, oil painting on gessoed board

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california stars

So, Sharie (my sister, my assistant, my boss) keeps asking me when I'm going to announce that I've moved to San Luis Obispo, CA. But every time I try to find words to describe this place... I cannot. "Beautiful" comes to mind, but that fails to explain exactly how incredible this area is. Forgive me. I'm a visual artist and words can be elusive sometimes. So here's a song. A song that I like a lot. It has been a long and stressful--and thrilling--move, and this song got me through. There are countless kind souls to thank. A special thank you, of course, to Sharie, who keeps me going and continues to be my "woman behind the curtain." Also a special thank you to Daniel's sister, Margaret, for laundry, a stocked fridge, and a place to lay our weary heads while we apartment hunted. And love to my partner, Daniel. We did it, Baby! We did it!

(today's painting is at the bottom of this post!)

"California Stars"

I'd like to rest my heavy head tonight
On a bed of California stars
I'd like to lay my weary bones tonight
On a bed of California stars

I'd love to feel
Your hand touching mine
And tell me why
I must keep working on

Yes I'd give my life
To lay my head tonight on a bed
Of California stars

I'd like to dream
My troubles all away
On a bed of California stars

Jump up from my starbed
Make another day
Underneath my California stars
They hang like grapes
On vines that shine
And warm the lovers' glass
Like friendly wine

So I'd give this world
Just to dream a dream with you
On our bed of California stars

I'd like to rest my heavy head tonight
On a bed of California stars
I'd like to lay my weary bones tonight
On a bed of California stars

I'd love to feel
Your hand touching mine
And tell me why
I must keep working on

Yes I'd give my life
To lay my head tonight on a bed
Of California stars

I'd like to dream
My troubles all away
On a bed of California stars

Jump up from my starbed
Make another day
Underneath my California stars

They hang like grapes
On vines that shine
And warm the lovers' glass
Like friendly wine

So I'd give this world
Just to dream a dream with you
On our bed of California stars

So I'd give this world
Just to dream a dream with you
On our bed of California stars

(Dream a dream with you)

 8 x 8 inches oil painting on gessoed board

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with a fox

6 x 6 inches, oil painting on gessoed board

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velvet

6 x 6 inches, oil painting on gessoed board

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california

6 x 6 inches, oil painting on gessoed panel

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yes. I'm listening...

6 x 6 inches, oil painting on gessoed panel

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hello sunshine

6 x 6 inches, oil painting on gessoed panel

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sealed with a kiss

6 x 8 inches, oil painting on gessoed panel

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go mustangs!

6 x 6 inches, oil painting on gessoed panel

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louisiana love

There is one less artist in the world today. Jillian Johnson, along with Mayci Breaux, were killed yesterday in my former home of Lafayette, LA. Jillian was a passionately creative force in town. I've seen her band. I wear t-shirts that she designed. Please do something creative today in her honor. Because you can. Because you are alive. 

6 x 6 inches, oil painting on gessoed panel

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bearly

6 x 6 inches, oil painting on gessoed panel

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catch

6 x 8 inches, oil painting on gessoed panel

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don't stop believin'

6 x 8 inches, oil painting on gessoed panel

journey V

6 x 6 inches, oil painting on gessoed panel

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journey IV

6 x 6 inches, oil painting on gessoed panel

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journey III

6 x 6 inches, oil painting on gessoed panel

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