The cool winds of October are forcing me in the house after a summer of very little painting, but a lot of gardening. I'm trying to get my web site in good order, which, among other things, means checking out which paintings have never made it to the site. I was thinking that I still have my first oil painting, a painting that I did of my younger brother's baby shoes. He's 47 now. I know, I've been painting a long time, and I've done many, many, many paintings.
This is one of my favorites. I'm in the middle, surrounded by my girlfriends, Kiah and Ellen. It was Mother's Day, and being mothers ourselves, we decided to ride around the "kingdom" visiting our friends who were mothers and some that weren't. It was an incredible spring day, the kind that make you a little crazy after the long Vermont winter. I took the photos. There's even one of Ellen reinacting Wyeth's "Christina's World". I think I used that photo for the mosaics in the window of the car. I wanted to do a painting which captured the youth and fun and shear pleasure of that day.
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