Illustration Friday: Welcome

I have been playing around with my new paint, and here is my illustration friday entry.
Hope you are having a good week!

Life is sweet

waitin for fall

ho-hum...its still warm out there. Pretty much HOT. Looking forward to sweaters and boots and umbrellas and cooler days. Heres what I did last night and this morning. I waited something like 10 days to get some new paints and I was so excited about messing around with them. I got the slowest shipping available (my fault) and it was making me crazy tracking it. Anyway, I got them and I am more than happy with them.

Fall

The best things about fall:

Long walks in the forests of brilliant orange, red and yellow
Apples and spicy apple cider
Pumpkins and pumpkin bread
The smell of wood burning
The chill in the evening air and a warm fuzzy sweater
Warm, inviting lights in the window on rainy, grey days
Homemade chili with cheddar cheese on top
Big orange harvest moons
Popcorn and carmel apples and spooky movies on Halloween
Millions of stars in a black sky on a cold night

Favorite Creatures

This is one of my favorite little creatures. I love to watch them drink water. They hover over the water and suddenly dip down and very gently touch the water. So curious and playful.

Music for tonight: David Gray - Life in slow motion
playing now, "Ain't No Love"
He is a wonderful and fanciful musician. His beautiful songs are masterful and layered with lush, dreamy sounds.

Tuesday Night playlist

Here are a couple of pictures I took quite some time ago.


listening to right now: Barlow Girl - Heres My Life - How Can We Be Silent?
Before that, Hold Me Up - Live - Demo from Throwing Copper
Before that, a guy that I saw at Germantown performing arts show in the Library one Sunday. He was great and very soulful...a savory voice.
Greenwood Girls - Kevin Gordon - O Come Look At the Burning

I have been listening to Ravi Shankar and Nikhill Banerjee a lot lately. It seems to ease me when I am feeling stressful about work.

Friday Night Cheetos and Perrier

It is Friday. I am drinking Perrier and eating Cheetos. I am also updating my blog...the winds are blowing. Ahhhhhh... I had forgotten what a great song "Ship of Fools" by Robert Plant was. The guitar is oh so swwweeet, not to mentions Roberts (swoon) voice. I have also been listening to M. Ward, and Bon Iver. I find both of their "pieced together" music completely fascinating. Listen to "Hi-Fi" from Transistor Radio or "Poison Cup" from Post-War by M. Ward. Listen to For Emma, Forever ago (all of it) by Bon Iver. The textures are rich, the voices luxurious.

I was looking at The Selby and thinking about how I like to look at other people's stuff. I love book cases filled with books. I have a thing for books. I love them. love them.

I also wanted to tell you about an artist I love. I saw her in Juxtapoz and loved her beautiful flowing, feminine artwork.
Audrey Kawasaki

So, It's Friday! Cheetos and Perrier time! Cheers!

a random picture - us



another random picture from the recent past...ohhhhhh so much love I feel.
Myself and my offspring. I love her so.