August break: my little girl's room

We are back home in Brooklyn for a brief interlude between trips, so I thought I'd offer another peak into our house today.
Our third bedroom is a small room by most standards, but a pretty normal size for NYC, and just right for our little girl. She loves pink, flowers, anything girly, so I have had fun collecting things to surround her with, making her little sanctuary a place that she loves to be. Many of the decorations have special meaning, there is the window box with her first sweater hand knit by my mother, a pillow that I needle pointed, a piece of marbleized paper that I bought in Venice years ago, treasured pictures and of course a painting called Message that I made just for her.

What if

"What if you slept, and what if in your sleep you dreamed. What if in your dreams you plucked a strange and beautiful flower and what if when you awoke you had the flower in your hand. And what then, what then, what then..."

We spent a rainy day indoors today at the Naples, FL museum of art which was having a fair for kids.
The calligraphy above was part of a modern version of an illuminated manuscript bible that was in display. It was stunning and so evocative, don't you think?

We enjoyed the hours surrounded by stunning art, taking advantage of all the things to build, make and eat at the fair, having face painting and otherwise indoctrinating our young ones.

Art is Life.

Message

Message

I was in the studio a lot this past week! Finishing this painting in 2 days. It came together so easily and almost seemed to be painting itself...well almost. I love it when that happens, it is as if the painting is telling me what it needs in each layer. I am thrilled to be getting back into the studio after a few weeks off for travel, with a mind that is bursting with ideas that have been percolating. In all 4 paintings that I've been working on since Santa Fe the blue of that sky (its there!) and the brown earth are working themselves in as the dominant color schemes. From vision to thought to canvas.