Playing with oil

I decided to paint this little girl, looking around a tree in amazement, and I have played around with the oils and the canvas not knowing where it would lead me.

Then I added this...It is so much fun to create! 

I decided to stop with this layer, and I am calling it...ooh I do believe.

Got to head off to bed now, work tomorrow!

No Child but must remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infintesimal forest and seeing it grow  populous with fairy armies....Robert Louis Stevenson.

A day well spent....

Another snow day from work! Ugg!! But I got to share it with my youngest grandaughter...We had a very Artful day....She loves art and at 7 is showing lots of promise! I know when she gets older she will lovingly reflect on the snow day of her seventh year spent with her "G".

I Love this piece I am working on....it is based on my niece....but it is giving me fits!

close up of her face

I may just have to work on something else then go back to her.

"I am not a teacher, but an awakener"

Robert Frost

Dream Waking

Dream Waking!

Imagine..waking from a dream...sitting on the edge of your bed and thinking about what your dream was about or trying to remember.

I call this "Dream waking."

This painting was inspired by just that very thing!

Dream Waking

16x20

Oil on archival canvas paper

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities.

Dreaming after all is a form of planning.....Gloria Steinem