One Completed, One Started and Gallery Representation

Lily of the Nile

22"x 60"

I finally finished this one, but am not pleased with it.  I rushed through the bottom right panel.  I began homeschooling this fall, and it doesn't leave much time for painting.  Plus, as I have said before, my daughter is my greatest teacher, and she is constantly reminding me to slow down and set quality before quantity.  I want to be prolific, she wants to be perfect (and me to be perfect).  I don't know if there can be a combination of prolific and perfect.  If I am prolific I will no doubt produce some losers, but if I am perfect, will I get anything done?  One thing for sure is that she is right about quality being the most important.  

Low Tide, Carlsbad SB (In progress)

18"x 14"

Being on holiday break allowed me some time to start a new painting.  This is a smaller canvas than the paintings I made in the last year.  I like small, because it draws the viewer in and whispers its secrets instead of shouting from across the room.  When I began the photo-collage-drawings, I started small so I would have a sense of accomplishment.  I have gotten larger with acrylics.  Maybe it is time to downsize again...

One last thing:  I have been accepted into Xanadu Gallery's on line gallery.  Currently, I have only one image on the site, because they have to review each image before it gets uploaded.  You can go to the URL listed below to see just my work or you can go to the gallery site to see the artists in their brick and mortar location in Scottsdale, AZ or see the rest of the studio artists that are in the online gallery.

xanadugallery.com/Art/ArtistGallery.asp?ArtistID=2120