If you’d like to “walk around”, click the pic for the (not narrated) video, walking up to the display and all that fun stuff you would get to do if you were HERE. (Update: I converted the thing to a windows media file and it’s much smaller and faster loading, sorry about that humongo file!) I’ll get back over there when the tags go up, in the evening, when there isn’t a funky glare from the street.

These are all available for purchase, so if you’re interested in any of them you can contact me for pricing and I can give you the number to call MidCoast Fine Arts to purchase through the gallery.

Here’s a YouTube, since it seems to be a universal viewer:

As promised, a night video view with much less glare. :)

I did it! I was up until the wee hours of the morning (11pm is late for me, c’mon.) and I think I need to buy stock in aspercreme or something, but he’s done. What a magnificent bird Laura captured, I’m so excited to have her blessing to create this gorgeous 18×36 portrait from one of her amazing photographs. (I can’t find the link to it - Laura - help!)

This is the final piece that will be displayed with my collection. I’ve got a ton of paperwork, scanning etc. to do (and I’m waiting for this guy to dry) so I’ll check back with you with photos of everything on display and a YouTube Vid once they’re all hung. Keep in mind, this is a “window exhibit”, meaning I have a 16″ wide by 5″ high glass enclosed window area where they’ll be exhibited for 2 months to about 30,000 people who walk through this particular area. If I had more pieces in my collection, I’d have a regular gallery show, but since my paintings are never in my posession for very long (yay!), I couldn’t hog up a whole gallery with one wall worth of work. Still, it’s a great thing to have the exposure on a local level.

Here’s a sampling - the spacing and stuff is all wrong, but it will look something like this on exhibit. The whole thing will display at about 24″ x 24″.

Catybug has a new friend, his name is Quintin. He’s a Quaker Parrot, and he needed a “Qu” name. Why? Because that’s cute, that’s why. She initially wanted to ask you guys to help her name him, but then she just started calling him Quintin, so there you have it. (The spelling of it was her call, too.) He’s a 2 month old, hand fed baby boo fluffy sweetie kissy pie head, he snuggles and purrs sorta like a kitty. Or a soothing crow, if you can imagine a crow call to be soothing.

Here you go, the last set to complete a 16 set series of “Eye Ate It” paintings that will be presented as part of my exhibition that begins - WEDNESDAY. Yes. Wednesday. I have 2 days to complete my biggest, largest most complicated painting for the show now.

These should be easy guesses, and now I’m starving - because my kids ate all my painting subjects. Dangit. I swear, as soon as I had the painting finished, they snagged it and ran. In fact, Chickey is standing right in front of me right now saying “Are you done painting the Eye Ate It’s?” and I said “yeeeessss” and she said “Can I go get the rest of the candy now?” and of course, my reply was “yeeeessssss”.

Grumble, grumble, grumble
(that’s my tummy)

One more set to go in my “Eye Ate It” series to finish - did you guess on the last set? This one may be easier - although that one to the right may stump a few people since the image isn’t a very big one.

(Yes I’ll put them all together when I’m finished for you to eat up, you know, that’s a lot of Eye Candy. Save your appetite eyepetite. :winking:)

Happy guessing!

P.S. Got ice? We do! On a normal day, that bush is not so vertically challenged. I think it may split in half. Can’t go out, you might get pelted by the ice cube sized stuff breaking off the trees. One more - look at our coated power lines. (Hoping they don’t snap!)

The next three in my “Eye Ate It” series are complete, 6 more to go to complete this series. Go ahead and name these goodies!

Three of 12 are complete, 9 more “Eye At It” paintings will complete a 16 piece series of 4″ x 4″ square bite sized edibles for exhibition.

Can you name all these goodies?

Just 5 days remain until I need to have everything ready for exhibit. I will be around to visit everyone soon, thank you all so much for your understanding and support!

We finally got around to “upgrading” our pillows from smashed down polyfill to down and down alternative pillows this weekend. JCP was having a home sale, buy one and get another one for a buck! Who could resist? So we treated ourselves, and it was good.

We’re both sleeping great on our new pillows. Me, I’m out as soon as my head hits it. It’s so soft and squishy and I feel like I’m drifting away in a suite in some fancy hotel room. Little luxuries. I enjoy them very much.

Except for the crazy dreams. My sleep is deeper now, so my crazy dreams have returned.

Imagine being in a room on the second floor of an apartment or hotel, opening the front door to find stairs too steep to climb with kids and luggage (the stairs weren’t like that when we arrived), and the back door had a platform to leave that was about 2 feet wide and deep. No railings, just a big piece of wood that I guess we were supposed to pull around to the side and slide down on? I don’t know - but imagine then turning around to find your 5 year old in a pouncing position at the ledge just happy as a clam to jump right off and down a full story to the ground.

I love my pillows, but jeez. Do they have to scare the crap out of me every night now?