If I can't run away to the sun...

I am ready to leave home...

well at least the rainy dark weather we have been experiencing 

here in Seattle.

So what's a girl to do?

Why paint of course!

Art is the only way to run away 

without leaving home.

Twyla Tharp

My dear son took some photos of me as I have virtually none of me

being creative...

I was hoping to give Gritty Jane's self portrait a try,

but would much rather paint my alter ego

{which the dictionary says is one's alternative personality or other self}

so I started two painting with that idea in mind...

I adore flowers and can think of nothing better than a huge,

overflowing bouquet spilling over...

and you all know my fixation with crows...

So here are the beginnings of my 'alter ego self portraits' 
(with me looking much younger in the crow painting)

and I will keep painting and sharing the process.

This will become a vase bursting with white flowers...

and pink roses will spill out here.

I have one rose blooming in the yard and it is curled up with mildew...

Oh summer where are you?

Our new patio is even green with moss!

At least art is not dependent on the weather.


Anybody else out there having weather issues?
Any new paintings you want us to see?
Leave a comment and your site link.
I'd love to visit
and get away from this weather ;-)...