Puppy news flash...and video :)

Little Turbo just turned 8 weeks old!
He had his first visit to the vet today
since he's been living with us & he was a real champ!

We begin border collie puppy classes
a week from today and we can't wait.

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Little blooms

The wild flowers don't come out here until the fall.
But I carved myself a little stamp garden today.

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Happiness

Watercolor & acrylic ink
9 x 12 inches
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New illustration

Something I'm working on this weekend...

Hope you have a lovely one.

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Sit!

This little guy is not only unbearably cute
but he's super smart as well.
My oldest son Israel has already taught him to sit
when offered a treat or his favorite toy.
I hope I'm not boring you to death
with puppy posts, but I just can't help it :)

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Peacock Tree print

It's now available at my shop.

12 x 16 inches.
That's my lovely son Daniel posing for me.
He's the best print model ever :)

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Puppy Butt

Turbo doing the "pancake" position.
Did you know there's even a Flickr Group
called Animal Pancakes?
The things you learn on the internet...

Ah puppy butts!
One of life's simple pleasures :)

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He's here!

Our little puppy is finally home &
we are completely in love with him.

I tried uploading a little video I made today
but my internet connection is really slow.
You can hop over to my Flickr and watch it there
by clicking on this link

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Swollen

I had to temporarily say good-bye
to my little tabletop chest of drawers.
Some of the drawers swelled from the humidity
and I could no longer open them.
They went back to the shop to be re-adjusted.

I can hardy contain myself from the excitement
that our little puppy is arriving tomorrow!
Our heart is swollen with love.

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My Dad

My dad with his grandpa Abraham.

Being goofy with his baby cousin.
He still makes that same face :)

Looking groovy in the 70s.
My dad is the kinda guy that would wake up
to make my sister Karyn & me
chocolate oatmeal for breakfast
and pack our lunch for school with
little hidden love notes inside.
Happy Father's Day daddy,
I love you.

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Finished Peacock Tree

Watercolor & acrylic ink on paper. 9 x 12 inches
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I love this stage, with just a couple of colors in.

Sometimes I'm just tempted to leave it like that.

But then I just go for it.

And Voila!
It will be available as a large print
in my shop next week.
I'm thinking of printing it on
Amate paper,
I need to make some tests this weekend.
I'll be back Sunday to celebrate my Dad :)

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Kitchen counter

Taken yesterday afternoon.
I have a new orchid & a little thyme plant
to keep me company.

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Peacock Tree

Peek at a new watercolor I'm working on.
I made the pencil drawing today.

I'll watercolor it later tonight.
I always feel a compulsion to paint
when it's raining outside,
the grayer the day the better.
What kind of day inspires you to paint?

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Happy Radishes

The radishes we had for lunch today were so cute
we almost didn't eat them.

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Fly

My bird escaped the collage & is exploring
new worlds...
Inspired by the beautiful work
by my friend Margie.
Click on it to see it bigger.

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1994

I found these photos I took of my desk in 1994
while browsing through an old photo album
this morning .

I used to love covering my desk with Kraft paper
and doodle all kinds of things on it.
That year it was a calendar.

I was completely in love with
a box of Prismacolor pencils
my dad had given me on my birthday.
It was around that time I discovered watercolors.
1994 was a great year.

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June pages

Went with feathers for these pages of my journal.

I'm off to the movies to see
A Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
with Manolo and the boys.
Loved the first one.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

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Re-Use

Little collage I made this morning
re-using some of my discarded prints
& a birdie I drew on vellum with white acrylic ink.
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Monday Monday

So good to me :)

Monday Monday, it was all I hoped it would be.

The sun is shining, the birdies are singing
and I've got lots of painting to do today.

Happy Monday to you!

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Moon

Looking at the moon from my desk tonight and
listening to Ray Lamontagne's "Winter Birds"
over and over again :)

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Journal pages

I had not posted pages from my journal
since February!

You can see more of my journals
by clicking here.
I'm using an olive green 5.5 x 5.5 inches
Hand Book Artist Journal

*FYI: I glued those paper doilies
onto my journal using PVA glue
and drew/wrote on them
after they were completely dried.

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Moleskine

A page from one of my watercolor
Moleskine notebooks.
5 x 8 inches

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Terrariums in progress

Watercolor on gorgeous
Twinrocker handmade paper.
9 x 19 inches

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Puppy love!

Meet little Turbo.

We are in love :)
He's coming home with us on the 23rd and
I need to hurry up and finish
six books on Border Collies
that I'm reading right now.
We got to meet Turbo
& his little brothers and sisters today
and we cannot stop thinking about him.

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