Lilah Underway

i feel guilty working on a painting of lilah when i am still behind on commissioned portraits. i do have an excuse for this though! i was trying something new for one of my jr. achievement portraits this year, painting on gessoed panel instead of stretched canvas. but i didn't much like the gessoed panel! just not used to working on it i guess... i didn't want to waste it and thought it might be fun to experiment, so here is lilah!

Olivia

Liza

Tea Time

today we celebrated lilah's 4th birthday with a small tea party at the grand jefferson hotel. the girls dressed in their princess dresses and had a lovely time. thank you mary for taking the photos! this one of lilah and paige is especially sweet!

Valentine's Greetings

happy

hope cupid is good to you. i have always loved vintage postcards; i have a collection i'll show you sometime. what appeals to me even more than the romantic images on these old cards is reading the letters that were written for loved ones, now long gone. it's amazing to me that i can hold in my hand a bit of card stock from a hundred years ago and read about the lives of strangers in their own and often exquisite handwriting, catching just a glimpse of their lives, yet sometimes a meaningful glimpse. i love old things... can you have a nostalgia for something you've never experienced? sometimes i wish i'd been born a hundred years ago!

my little scamps

Matthew's Timeline

i'm proud to show the recent artwork of my cousin, Matthew Marino. this work was done for a 2008 New Year's Eve event called First Night in Pittsburgh. it is a batik timeline of life on earth. he said that the event was much fun and that they closed the streets so that people could walk down the middle of the streets on Penn and Liberty and that there were piles of firewood on sidewalks and burning in big drums.
it appears not all of the photos have uploaded and for some reason the ones that did upload are not in the correct order!.... hmmm it's late; i'll fix that later... i especially love that he's incorporated the constellations! so much to look at!