There are not too many days like today. A day of rest,peace and painting. I seem to be finally getting some relief from the ultrasound physical therapy sessions for my back. My squashy studio chair was comfortable and I was happy listening to VAST,The Breaking Dawn soundtrack and score and Ingrid Michaelson.Still experimenting with Wallis Museum sanded pastel paper and getting some good work done and loving the experimentation. Painting number one is Millions of trilliums 9x6 acrylic on wallis.This was concentrating on backlighting,keeping it light and airy and colorful,while keeping my beloved darks in there.I'm pretty happy with what happened. it looks like a waterfall of small white flowers,a happy painting for a dismally dreary day. Painting number two is Abstract reflections 9x7 acrylic on wallis. Inspired by fellow Facebook artist Theresa Rankin,I

set out in a experiment of reflections of my own. this is the way paintings go sometimes...it was very different for me.It is very free and loose and it really had a mind of its own,this one did. Talking to one of my dear friends in Maine,another facebook artist Kathleen Daughan,put me in a Pemaquid mood. Listening to a repeating music session of Chritina perri's A thousand years put me in a warm and faraway mood to my favorite place . Pemaquid Point Maine and the geometric rocks of Kresque point. I seem to do my best painting there. Good Morning pemaquid is 12x18 acrylic on Wallis museum. I painted plein air 6 in the morning this past June in this same spot..in the other direction . But the early morning light,air and sound of the water is never far way from my heart.