in addition to Lilah's portrait...

i have the first two jr achievement laureates' portraits now underway as well . the big night is may 15!

on the way home tonight i was listening to NPR. i turned the radio on at a point where a funny girl with a lovely voice was making a sort of awkward joke about the microphone being a big blue ball and how it makes you feel to have to have blue balls so close to your face :/ :) then she sang a song she wrote called 'breakable' and another called 'faraway', i think. and i just heard 'the way i am' on youtube. hadn't heard of her till now. you must check out her music! her name is ingrid michaelson, and she's fantastic!

Lilah Further Along

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!