bach festival

My goal right now is to try to do one daily thing towards my artist goal...make more money selling my art than at working in the tiny restaurant i work at all day and all night:)
So I started this week, baby art steps
1)contacted a newspaper that features artist's work on their front cover submitted something 2) checked out several how to books on selling your art 
3)re-opened etsy shop ....nothing in it yet(*baby art steps)
4)made a painting for a call to artists something related to Bach(we have a big Bach festival here in the summer) and of course the painting felt forced.....painted over it probably 30 times, no joke, finally i said screw-it! and gave my vase wings and wrote on my vase, something a little risque:)....it didn't matter at this point and it made me laugh at how hard i had been stressing out about the whole thing........they will either love it or hate it or wonder what the heck was she thinking?!!......doesn't matter i did it, submitted it....called it a day, another daily baby art step......need to remember that it is okay to go sideways sometimes.......or even backwards:)

concerto no 5 in f minor

field trip...trip-ups along the way

i want to change up my blog...make it more mine, i feel as thought this last two years i have shared but just the surface...not what is below...do i dare....do i dare.....some of you who have stuck with me...you know who you are, at least i hope you do, because it has meant a lot to me. this is a tiny blog just one person typing away and sharing her art,photos and random musings. 
let's see the sharing part
here it goes
in february i was officially divorced...it was a long marriage one i do not regret in any way but this divorce has made me step back reflect what it all meant, what it means now, spent most of my life with one person, it was a long one folks........these last months i am once again finding myself, picking myself up, finding my smile, finding my laughter...and i am doing it.......my inner cheerleader is rooting for me she is a feisty little thing, her poms-poms are bigger than her but that doesn't stop her from lifting them up for me:)......god how i love her. 
so i am trying to get back into the swing of things......dusting the paintbrushes off, rebooting the etsy store, step out of my comfort zone and peddle my art around town. went on a last minute decision drive out to dexter lake the other day (iris joined me) and she took some photos of me. i was getting all serious about the beautiful tree trunks that had washed up i wanted to haul them all home:)  i love the photos iris took of me i didn't at first know that she was taking them them when i did i sat down and laughed

because i had seriously been in the zone:)

so some photos for you all

beauty of the lake 

(we had it all to ourselves on this day)

the soft smoothness of wood that has been in the water for a long time

iris's self portrait (she writes on her legs all the time little messages to herself) 

oregon's covered bridges they are wonderful

water sparkles! yes these are for you!

little red barns how i love you so

e course

starting up sketching for regina's incredible e-course expressions

this is going to be fun

eugene snapshots the flowers are everywhere!

Some flowers to share with you!

little artists

i had two tiny artists visit me on saturday. i went to capture a photo of one of them painting her picture and notice she was painting her hand instead:)
artists you have to love their self expression