july 8

this needed something other than neutral shades of brown and reds...so i put my favorite color, turquoise, (of course!), on top to start :) that particular turquoise isn't something i ever use, it's a little deeper and more green than the light and crisp mints i like to use but i thought id try it anyway. while i was putting it on i thought that it looks like the cheesy sort of southwestern turquoise i always saw while growing up in arizona, but i kind of like it for that reason (and, i guess i liked it a lot more then too, because for a long time growing up, my whole room was painted that color). im thinking i'll eventually name it "arizona: the sounds that dove make", or something like that. maybe that's cheesy too (you know!! -to match the color? haha.) dove were (and are) always around my family's house in phoenix and whenever i hear one now it makes my heart hurt, in a good way i guess, but with nostalgia, bc it makes me remember everything about home


close up so far


this one's still coming around. it needs a little more aggression and confidence to balance the softness; i don't want the painting to look careful, or to express that, either


again: random. but i took this picture on my trip with my mom and siblings a few weeks ago, it was at a yum Mexican restaurant in chester, nj. i like the placemat and am thinking i'll try to make a painting sometime with flowers like this in it (mix of decorative, representative art with my love of abstract..). i don't know why, liking the Hispanic and Indian (well, from India and the Southwest, both) right now, -i think it's so pretty and romantic and exotic. and, all the other pretty pictures i got were of my family and i dont want to creep them out by putting up single pictures of them online. well that about does it