Sneak Peek

Here are a couple of things I've been working on lately. I finished the turquoise/brown/orange painting on Saturday so I'll try to get that scanned in and in the shop sometime this week. As you know, I've been giving myself art classes. My latest things to experiment with is india ink. I've never used it before, and wanted something I could use easily to do some of the finer details of my paintings. So that turquoise/brown/orange painting also uses india ink. I'm still getting the hang of the quill thing-y that I was using, but it's fun! I'll definitely be doing more with it in the future. Then I felt like it's been ages since i did a flower painting, so the white canvas has a flower sketched on it. Not sure when i'll actually get to paint it yet, we'll see. I'm way behind on getting some consignment stuff done, and then there's my friend Adrien's (hi Adrien!) enormous painting to do. Oh, and we put in the floors in the kitchen last weekend and they look awesome! Even better than I thought they would! So I will post pics of the finished room soon.

One more thing...I've decided to get my alternative teaching certification and will be busy working on that in the coming months. I'm hoping to be teaching elementary school next school year, so I'm contemplating what to do about my business. I'm definitely going to keep it going, but I won't have nearly as much time to paint when I start working so i'm not sure how often it will be updated. We shall just have to wait and see how busy things are. I haven't worked a full-time job in 7 years, and certainly didn't have 3 kids at that time either. But I really enjoy painting and exploring my creativity, so i'm planning to continue doing what i'm doing- just on the side. Just thought you all would like to know!