Tag Archives: 30 in 30

30 in 30 Day 15 – Random Red Thoughts

Oil on stretched canvas, 6″ x 6″

RandomRedThoughts

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It’s the half-time show!

30 in 30 Day 14 – Medieval Beast Cannot Even

Medieval Beast Cannot Even. He simply cannot.

MedievalBeastCannot

 

And nor can I.

Oil on canvas board, 5″ x 7″

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30 in 30 Day 13 – Starman

“Starman” oil on canvas board, 5″ x 7″

StarmanI think I confabulated Bowie with Nosferatu plus my dad a little bit. And I’m just fine with that.

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30 in 30 day 12- To Market

David Bowie is still dead and I am still losing my studio.

“To Market,” oil on canvas board, 5″ x 7″

ToMarket

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30 in 30 Day 11 – Catting Around

Today’s post is about my husband’s feral cats. Frank works as a mechanic and there is a small group of feral cats that hang out in the yard among the junker cars that sit ready to be scavenged for parts. Frank worries about these cats and keeps them fed.  The shop closes down for a week between Christmas and New Years’ Day. In past years he’s driven down during his vacation week a couple of times to make sure the cats didn’t starve, but this time he drove down to feed them every single day.

CattingAround

By the fifth day, it began to feel as though he had a second family. I looked at him and asked if he was really just going to feed his cats every day, or if there was something I should know.

“Katie,” he said, “If I was going to see another woman, do you think I would be taking her ham scraps?”

“Catting Around” is a 5″ x 7″ on canvas board, an  is available here.

30 in 30 Day 10 – Imaginary Sanctuary

Today’s painting is a bit of hopefulness. “Imaginary Sanctuary,” oil on stretched canvas, 6″ x 6″. I thought about accompanying this with a tune from Westside Story (There’s a Place for Us…. Somewhere… A Place for Us…) but I went with Dave Van Ronk’s brilliant cover of Joni Mitchell’s classic just because I like it better.

ImaginarySanctuary

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And now here’s a really good song.

 

30 in 30 Day 9 – And Bears, Oh My

Day 9’s painting is oil on canvas board, 5″ x 7″

AndBearsOhMy

 

It is available here.

Isn’t he a cuddly fellow?

 

30 in 30 day 7 – On Deaf Ears

I was ahead and now I’m playing catch-up. Funny how quickly that can happen. Day 7’s painting is “On Deaf Ears,” 5″ x 5, oil on stretched canvas.

OnDeafEars

It is available here.

The song below is the best song, in my opinion, from XTC’s brilliant mid-eighties album Skylarking. I think it has held up very well over the years.

 

30 in 30 day 6 – A Winter Day’s Walk

“A Winter Day’s Walk,” oil on canvas board, 5″ x 7″

AWinterDay'sWalk

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30 in 30 Day 5 – Flying a Kite

Oil on canvas board, 5″ x 7″

FlyingAKite

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This holiday season I watched the old television production of Truman Capote’s “A Christmas Memory” yet again. It is one of my favorite Christmas stories, and if you haven’t yet read it or listened to it or watched it, I envy you. You’re in for a treat. The closing lines:

And when that happens, I know it. A message saying so merely confirms a piece of news some secret vein had already received, severing from me an irreplaceable part of myself, letting it loose like a kite on a broken string. That is why, walking across a school campus on this particular December morning, I keep searching the sky. As if I expected to see, rather like hearts, a lost pair of kites hurrying toward heaven.

I also love Joanna Newsom’s song, “Flying a Kite.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv_-aRopKwE