Title: "Resolute"
Medium: Watercolor
Size: 6 x 9 inches

$100 plus $16 shipping and handling
watercolor on 140lb watercolor paper

"Resolute" started off as an experiment. I wanted to play with textures using only watercolor. Not too much thought went into this and I certainly didn't know how it was going to turn out or what was going to be in it. I enjoyed painting this one. The red sphere was especially enjoyable and I put a lot of detail into it. Something I haven't done in many months. Makes me wonder if my focus might be coming back some. You might look at this and think that I'm doing better and feeling more strong and positive, but in all truth this past week has been a hard one for me. I've had my break downs, but I keep picking myself back up and looking toward the positive.

Here is a detail shot of the red sphere in "Resolute":

Title: "Chasm"
Medium: Mixed Media
Size: 6 x 9 inches

Mixed Media on 140lb. watercolor paper
$100 plus $16 shipping and handling

Chasm was started a couple weeks ago and then put to the side because I got busy cooking for the Super Bowl and my husband's birthday. He turned 38 this month and we both enjoyed being able to celebrate it! Every birthday is welcome now and we no longer dread getting older. We enjoy it and love it! It was a good day. :) Anyway today I decided to pick this painting back up again even though I had no clue where to go with it. I still haven't a clue as to where this piece went. I'm just going with it and calling it done. It is more minimalistic than I usually work, but maybe that's a good thing right now. I jumped around with mediums again with this one. There's watercolor, colored pencil, ink, acrylic, and then at the very end I threw on some of the coffee I was drinking. I have to admit that I look at this and then most of my other recent works and think that when I am dead and gone some critic is going to say I must have entered my Blue Period or something and that it must be in correlation to my family's struggles! LOL! Poor sap won't realize I started dabbling in blue before that ever happened. But we'll let him go ahead and think whatever he wants because I won't be around to care! LOL! One thing for sure, I know it is making my mother happy because she's always wanted me to paint more blue paintings . :D I still really love earth tones and I'm missing it. Maybe the next one will be more earthy and not so cold. Who knows what my mind will come up with. Even I don't know!

Title: "Rift"
Medium: Acrylic and Oil paint
Size: 4x5 inches

Acrylic and Oil paint on stretched canvas
$100 plus $16 shipping and handling

My latest small painting. This one was started about 3 weeks ago but it took some time for the base texture to dry. The texture is quite thick. The base started off being made with a bit of focus and when it came to painting over the base I was quite distracted and nearly ruined it. My distracted mind had a hard time working around a focused base, but I think it turned out in the end.