Category — Life

I felt like tinkering with jewelry today because painting takes more brain power than I cared to use. They are both sterling silver with gemstones. On the left, the bottom beads are topaz and the top are ametrine. On the right I’m not sure what the top beads are, they came from an assorted bead dish, but the bottom is coral. It’s kind of nuts how long I will spend picking out the beads and then making them. Productivity is definitely not the goal.

On Saturday morning I went to the Duke Lemur Center and did their Walking with the Lemurs tour. It was pretty neat. I got to hang out with some ring tailed lemurs while they ate for probably 30mns or so, but it felt like 5mns. I am considering doing the tour again with a different type of lemur.

I painted this lemur after the tour. There are also some photos below.

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It’s only Saturday and I’ve already made lots of stuff this weekend. I made these earrings last night which are sterling silver, peruvian opal and some kind of agate, I think maybe carnelian. I just pulled a home made pizza out of the oven and I’m 90% done with a new painting that I will probably post tomorrow. This weekend is awesome, and there will be three whole days of it!

I have been taking a wheel throwing class at Claymakers in Durham for the last couple months. I really enjoyed it and will definitely be taking another one.

This is one of my top two favorites.

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7" x 5" | Pencil on Paper

I only had two goals yesterday. First was to take some photos of butterflies and second was to do some pencil drawing; both were completed.
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I went to the Durham Farmers’ Market this morning and bought a pint of the most delicious black berries I have ever had in my life. They were so tasty I had to photograph some of them.

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This is the first painting I’ve done in 2010 that is larger than 5×7.  This one is 12×16 oil on canvas. I am mostly done, but I do have one more session planned for the kind of tweaking that can’t be achieved wet on wet. [Read more →]

I think I am done with this little 5in by 7in painting. I never know for sure…sometimes I decide to tweak things down the road, but I am pretty happy with the result of this one. It was great green mixing practice because other than the pink petals peeking out it is a very limited palette.

Peeking Pink Petals | 7" x 5" | Oil on Linen Panel

One of the fun things about this painting is that I actually took photographs of this piece and different stages to share.

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