shrooms...what is important?

This was painted in an hour...just shapes that turned out to be mushrooms. When I was a little girl in Ohio my brothers and I would go pick mushrooms and come home with a pillowcase full of them...we would put them in a pot with lots of butter and fry them up! Why we never died I don't know but my grandmother had instructed us as to which mushrooms were edible...I guess she knew what she was talking about...

I went to a workshop by Phil Garret of Golden Acrylic...so NOW I am so into acrylics. This painting is way cooler in person and is my first acrylic with the golden products... belong to Lake Toxaway Art Guild. For me painting is a solitary experience and I create infinitely more authentically when I am alone BUT that being said...I need to have friends who are interested and committed to the same path so we can share and explore and learn and grow. And they are just downright good people who are fun to be with and I am so grateful for each of them. We have several workshops in the summer while I am in Lake Toxaway and we have a huge art show on the first Monday of every October---it will be fun again I am sure!

This is also my new shot at abstracting an idea...this is the volcano EYJAFJALLAJOKULL--THE REALLY BIG PICTURE...two end pieces are 20"x60" and the two center pieces 36"x60"...I kept thinking chaos, nature, activity...Iceland is the white...

I am sooo excited! This is my new discovery of my expression. This piece is three panels of 30"x60" each...the title of this is BP OIL FIASCO---it's not all about YOU!

This is a new big 4 piece acrylic piece...112"x60"...my response to the BP debacle...

two guys

I wish this was a better photo because these guys are electric! They are done in oil on 4'x1' panels...not as a pair but I was too lazy to separate...(and not computer suave enough to accomplish)