hand to brush...

In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

so I need to work on my heart...

I 'borrowed' this hand model from my son to use on my last painting 

and it gives me a chuckle holding this brush - 

so it may just live on my desk for a while...

wonder if he will notice?

Every artist dips his brush 
in his own soul

and paints his own nature 
into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

I found this green floral frog at an antique store the 
other day 

and thought I could reinvent it as a pencil-brush holder...

and yessiree it works -

my art desk is very happy.

I have two kiddo art lesson to write about...

but so many photos to download...

and the sun is out.

Yes you heard me - the sun is out -

in all its blazing glory and the yard is calling to me 

and the lawn needs a makeover badly 

and the windows are screaming for a bath 

and we don't have a ladder that will work for that since we took out the deck.

So please forgive me and I will post the 
cutest kids' art next week

as after today the weather report shows lots of 
short vertical lines 

coming down from the sky... boo hoo.