I love this picture, the t-shirt is awesome, we saw Basquiat together at the Tivoli, (in 1996 wow such a long time ago! ) 

the drinking bird was an obsession, I remember finding one for Bob at Spicers, he was so happy and proud of that! Great work came out of that! The Painting below was around the same time...so vibrant and funny.

It has been a hard day. I said good bye to my mentor. I always loved art, and people said (ok my Dad) said I had talent. I fooled around with it. Bob showed me the process of creating art. The research, the passion, the obsession. He impacted my life!  

I did love you Bob, I love the times we had. I was standing at your grave...I always knew this day would come and yes I am pissed that you are not here, I half expected you to jump out from behind a tree but sadly you did not... 

This was our last exchange and as silly as facebook is, this is nice to have.
I thank you for my design sense and helping me launch my career but most of all you have a place in my heart that has all the fun we had and has that great connection artist get to have, it is rare, it is profound! Thanks Bob, I really hope you and John are having Brandy Alexanders today! XOXO

I am going to stop working on this piece. I like the shape it has formed. I like the colors. I could keep going but them it will be too much. I am letting this have air. Quilling is refreshing, and I literally have ideas to last me months and months. It is a richly creative medium for me.

I am back to work after a long spring break. 
I am waiting for my fall plans to be settled and I should be doing math. Why can't I get motivated. I have finished everything else, laundry, cooking , cleaning etc... 


Bogey was happy when I came home from work this morning :-) he is such a good loving creature! He is pure joy daily! We are very lucky that he made us a family!

My week off work is ticking away. I need more homework done and more creative work completed. Does everyone put pressure on themselves to get their enjoyment done? Like if you really like to read do you feel the need to get so many chapters read a day? I find that I want things to be correct, when I am the person who is creating the image from nothing, for no one, why so many rules and pressures. It can be exhausting.

Tomorrow you will see these put together, any thoughts?
"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do." ~Edgar Degas

Another St. Louis artist. Mary Engelbreit if you do not know her it is worth exploring.  A sample from her bio : An entire industry has grown up around Mary Engelbreit, but it all began with a young girl who just wanted to draw pictures.Mary moved into her first "studio," a hastily vacated linen closet in the St. Louis home where she grew up, when she was just 11 years old. "We jammed a desk and chair in there, and I'm sure it was 110 degrees," she remembers. "But I would happily sit in that closet for hours at a time and draw pictures."  http://www.maryengelbreit.com