Art

New paintings on website!!

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Tattoos are salty

Today was my first day at Tattoo school here in Portland. YAY!! In a few months I will be tattooing away like this: zzzzzt zzzzzzt zzz zzz ztztt!

FAERIEWORLD!!!!

BUSY JULY!!!! OMG!!!!

Make faerie costume: wings!!! and dress!!! and glitter!!!
Concerts and bike riding!!!!
Work and yoga!!!!!
Painting and fiddling!!!!!!
So much to do!!!!

SCRUMBLÄKEN!!!!

My new friend made of felt!!!!!

BEACH AND ZOO

Today Siva and I drove to the beach at dawn and loved it!!! WOW AWESOME!! After getting caught in traffic on 26 we spent our evening at the ZOO!! so much fun with Siva!!! :)

Bri and Kari ADVENTURE!!!

Together exploring Tacoma waterfront! the adventure tingles......


















Smells soooo nice!


















Stretching like a dogwood!! Fun!!























Now I can be a dogwood!!


















This rose is a heart for you and me!!!!

Portland Pride 2009

So much fun!!

























I love celebrating!

Rainy gardening spring music and good food.

Another beautiful northwest sunset! The rain keeps falling harder! MORE RAIN PLEASE!! It is a peaceful feeling the warm rain brings me. I feel like bleeding music.

Creepy me naked, was just caught fiddling.

Painted on Sunday, March 29, 2009.
Watercolor, oil pastel, acrylic paint and iridescent watercolor.

Smudgy blendy

When will the smudge be enough? There is ultimate satisfaction in these colors and vibrant dusts. There here with me in a whirl, then they are gone. Passion, sweat, vibrations from my core to my small fingers. When this is over it always feels so spaciously empty and hollow. Will the smudging and blending ever be enough, or is it only enough during the moment of movement?

Mike is moving to Omaha!! 2/18/09

I made this sticker for Mike's going away present.
'beware of Buddha'

I Love KiKi Thor!

Sweet sunny cat!























He eats and cleans his red bear.

Scott's Birthday!!! 2/1/09

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCOTT!!!! Here we are at East Burn having Sunday brunch!! Scott looks so happy!!


















Awe, we hold hands!!






















I love these swinging chairs!!






















Happy family!!!

Adventure: Early morning fog. 1/29/09

Today we woke up early to get downtown before sunrise for early morning fog pictures. It was beautiful! Here is what we found by the river.



















Here is a boat at port.
























We drove up to a park on the hill where the fog was beginning to clear.




















Trees silhouetted.


















Mt Hood.


















Me at the top of the park. (I added some color).



















Frosty grass super close up.



















Next, we warm up at Genie's, for breakfast and coffee.
























We make faces and eat yummy!!! Happy times!!!!

Adventure: Silver Falls 1/19/09

On our way to the coast we sidelined to Silver falls. Cold and icy, the air was crispy and nice.















The falls are so nice!!

















Me! It is so cold here!
















Mmmmm... kissssisng!

Adventure: Sauvie Island 1/13/09

What a sunny day! Scott and Kumo and I fly to Sauvie Island to enjoy some beach!! To our surprise, the island is covered with fog :(
BUT I did find some beautiful grass!

















Oooooh! Nice dew! Also I found Some great moss.

















And this moss was barely green, super wiggly!

















Sweet moss!!

Computer up!

And now for the backdated photos!

RE: Dormant girl

THE MISSION:
UNLEASH THE ROCK STAR


What will come from this new found glory and freedom....?

Watch out for BLINDING AWESOMENESS!!!

Tradgedy of a computer crash

What can I do
without you, Adobe Photoshop?
If only I had a new surge protector
this would not have been.
I have so much art for you, oh internet.
The days bring piles and piles of
paintings, drawings, photos..
but, alas
I am computer-less.
Dusty broken computer in the corner.

A rush of art to the fingers

Between breath
Is the pause
Before the out and in starts
There, colors are swarming
Brooding and laughing
Hypnotizing me stop breathing
They wait and tickle
To let them out
They will burst
If we ignore them
When I open
They won't hesitate
Flooding the tiny cracks
Breaking the hardstone that keeps them
They are vibrant
Vast and wild
I am the rich soil they sprout from
And the binding that keeps them
The mud they tread through
And the rain fills them

New view

Lately my world has been dislodged, and also broken smashed melted and stabbed.

I left my husband,
moved to portland,
lost my friends,
aquired a new cat,
gone insane more than once,
played in three feet of snow,
discovered awesome music,
got my husband back,
said a lot of things I didn't mean,
said a lot of things I did mean,
and experienced emotions I cannot explain
that threw me overboard.

I fell like a jackass
but I heard this is what the world is made of.