Twins Dawn and Donna gave their mom a special birthday surprise by taking her for the day. The neat thing Trish didn't know where she was going and lucky for me... the first stop was a two hour art fest where they worked on collage pieces. Afterwards they were taking her to see Eat, Pray, Love and then probably after seeing that movie a feast of Italian food!
Dawn recently had a book published I Know When to Stay Quiet due in October. Donna did the photograph for the book cover. Needless to say, Trish is one proud Mom. : )
There's something about white and light color flowers against the blue summer sky that always inspires me to paint on charmeuse silk - 'the Cadillac of silks'.
Earl and I are teaching painting at Arts Alive for the month of July. We have 16 high school students who are working very hard gearing up for an big gallery show at the Scranton Cultural Center July 30 starting at 5:30 followed by a performance.
My niece came over and took this shot of me working in the studio - she's 6 ft - hence the 'birds eye view'. I delivered the works to Art Works today - First Friday in Scranton is going to be rockin' as Nikki Moser has a great exhibition at AFA. It'll be a great night to get out and about and see some ART!!
Earl Lehman and I are co-teaching painting this summer for the month of July for ARTS ALIVE in Scranton. We will be teaching at ARTWORKS, a gorgeous new gallery/teaching space on Lackawanna Avenue in Scranton, Pa. Our joint show will run concurrently. The first opening will be First Friday July 2, 2010. The second opening will be the first Friday on August 6th and runs through August 27th. The Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday 11-5.
Artworks is located on 503 Lackawanna Avenue Scranton, Pa 18503.
Phone is 570 207 1815 www. ArtWorksNEPA.com
The North Branch Land Trust saluted Linda Thoma by giving her a certificate to have a painting done by me to her liking.I met with Linda several months ago in her beautiful remodeled home and she gave me some words that would describe what she wanted created.
The words were - enchanting, mystical, fairies, and woods. Today she came with her co-worker Barb to pick up her piece and they were both moved to tears which consequently got me a little dewed up. : )
