Bright Blessed Day

I haven't blogged this summer. I didn't mean to let it go, I have been so inspired (Yeah & FINALLY) & trying to paint/sketch new paintings every spare moment. That's not to say I didn't spend ALOT of time at the pool & parks with the girls! :) Above is the latest painting "Bright Blessed Day"  (a line from Louis Armstrong's "What a wonderful world") 24 in x48in board painted with enamels. It is on the front sign of Artworks, the art supply store in Excelsior. There are 8 other artist's paintings on the sign. 

This was my "office" while working on the painting. I had to use enamels because it will be outside & the fumes were TERRIBLE. So, I set up this table each time I had a few moments to work. Some mornings I would wake up at 5 am to work & pray that the girls would sleep till 6. The sun would just be coming up over the corn, ahhh, life is good. 
Here is the work in progress, I should;ve taken a pic of all the random things I used to draw this. The circle "clouds" were traced from plates, bowls, random toys, & templates. The red sun flames were traced from a paper star light that my friend Kinion gave me in college. I had so much fun & was so happy with th eway it turned out! :) Now I've started 2 new large paintings, but more on those tomorrow.....

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