The McCloskey's

Hello!
Below is a painting I did for my friends John and Jackie. I have to say, it is one of my favorites. It will be hard to part with this one! You can't see it very well in this picture, but I painted the background orange before adding the other colors. So there are bits of orange that pop out across the painting. That is my favorite part.

Also, thanks to my Dad, I sold my first painting! I am officially a paid artist. Weird...and awesome! It is about time I bring in some bacon for this family.

Color explosion

Anyone else get uncomfortable during Viagra/KY commercials?

The lighting on this picture is terrible. If the lighting were correct, you'd see more red and orange than pink. Regardless, you get the idea. Enjoy!

Also, if you'd like to buy a painting, they all cost exactly 1 million dollars.

Rocky Mountain High

Greetings!

I just spent 2 wonderful weeks in Buena Vista, CO with my family- it was incredible! We spent time hiking, reading, playing cornhole, painting, and drinking copious amounts of wine. Naturally we also found the only bar in town with karaoke. Leaving was very hard but it is nice to be home and back to normalcy with Ruby D. Speaking of, we put her in the crib for the first time last night and she slept for 8 hours straight. BAM!

I painted this using pieces of a cardboard box. Sometimes I find that using materials other than paintbrushes creates a better final product. Sometimes I even use my hands- finger paints! Anyway, this is Mark's favorite painting. Enjoy.

Which way would you hang it?

I painted this guy the other day. While I painted it, I was flipping it on all sides so I never really settled on which end was the top and which was the bottom. Most people think version #2 (wide) is correct, however, my eye is drawn to version #1 (up and down). Which way do you see it?

Father's Day

I don't have much time to write- but I finally started painting again! Here is one of this week's creations. I have completed 4 paintings in the past 2 weeks, so I will post more later!

The Last Painting, BB

Well, today is officially the day! Actually, technically tomorrow is the day since I will be getting induced at 12:30 AM (yes, as in midnight). I'm feeling a lot of emotions right now (aside from the usual hormonal, pregnancy emotions): anxiety, excitement, fear, happiness, and of course the great unknown.

In order to pass the time and take my mind off consistently thinking about what it will be like to push a watermelon through a lemon, I spent a lot of the past 2 days relaxing and working on this painting. I was watching Moulin Rouge yesterday (I have to watch movies like this when Mark is out of the apartment because he refuses to watch anything that has a love story) and all I kept thinking about was how incredible the colors in the movie are. It is saturated with deep reds, magenta, and purple with splashes of blues, greens, silver, and yellow. The movie is like a huge, magnificent work of art. So all of this marveling in the beauty of the movie inspired me to paint the following. Enjoy!

The Last Painting, Before Baby

Tick Tock, Little Baby.

Here I sit- 10 months pregnant (4 days overdue). I just used the bathroom and while I was washing my hands I noticed some cottage cheese on my shirt in the mirror. I felt it drop while I was eating it, but I couldn't find it so I just thought I was dreaming. Turns out I just can't see it from my angle because my freaking stomach is so large. I got stuck in between 2 cowboy style swinging doors on Friday- that was awesome. I also almost lit my stomach on fire while cooking on the stove the other night. All this being said, we are so excited for the little guy/gal to arrive.

Below is a painting I finished last week. We just hung it in our apartment yesterday - which is very weird for me (makes me blush), but I am happy that Mark is not embarrassed to show it off. He's a great husband, isn't he?