Raising Islands

Trying to keep up with posting new paintings as I make them but really utterly failing. I mean…Kind Reader…I would much rather paint than bother with all the business of being an artist! Today, in fact, I have spent over an hour tiling the Eight of Swords/ Up Against the Wall together, so that I will have an excellent print of the painting someday and now I need to both blog about the painting and post about it (and the three others I haven’t yet posted) and all the while my studio calls to me. I feel a physical pull on my soul. Like an addiction? Like being turned on? How can I describe it? And there are hummingbirds playing in the rain outside my window, as I sit on the couch typing, cozy, the heater on. My studio is a mess, Halloween costumes strewn about, the skylight is leaking, and its freezing down there. I will have to put on warm layers, bum gloves made out of old sweaters and a thick beat up coat. But I don’t care. It calls to me. Ill try to actually add new paintings to my main page later today… I also have my ramblings about the creation of each image to share with you…but for now, this is what ya get!