I painted “Balancing Act” in 2021 or 2022. It was one of the first paintings that I tried to connect my feelings about where I lived with how I felt about my life. I hope to be able to express this balance again in a painting.
November 12, 2023
Just as I started to paint fairly frequently, signed up for an online class that critiques our art, and entered an online exhibit….you know what happened. Life has a way of spinning the wrong way. Buddy my 13 year old dog who looks like a Lab but isn’t, is sick or sicker. He goes to a specialized vet tomorrow, but now his symptoms are on top of each other. Yuck.
The class, yikes, I totally forgot today. And it was the first time that people would be able to speak about my art.
One of my paintings was accepted in the online exhibit. And so I will write about that as soon as it is publically announced.
I hope to paint more and to do a bit better in juggling life and my art this coming week.
October 23, 2023
When it comes to a website, I’m no longer a designer or do I know what I am doing. Be patient. At least you will see my work and my thoughts. But it may not be “wow look at her design!”
Over the weekend, I attempted to put my art chair together and my girlfriend and I finished it. She asked if I were brave enough to sit on it. Well now or never, I did and it held me. Today I changed rugs around and tried to make the place look better. I still have paintings to hang.
By almost anyone’s standards, my apartment is large. However, I have family antiques, a large art collection of my works and others, and I am used to painting in two small bedrooms where I did inks and encaustics in one and mixed media in the other.
“Tommy, where do you actually live?”
October 21, 2023
See where the deep black tea drop with a white dot is? By the FDR, and across from Long Island City? This is where I live, next to the East River. Above you can see the sunrise I saw one morning. I’m told I can sell tickets for fireworks. I don’t think my dog will be happy!
If you take the circle line you will hear about the Pepsi sign. I can see it from my window, even though I think it is nearer the East 50’s. And across the river is Long Island City, where my late husband Bruce worked for the City of New York.
Buddy and I walk along the the river and joggers go by. I often post the photos I see on Facebook.
Undated, 2023
Tommy “I can’t stand it. I have to paint something. Even if it is, ugh, awful.”
I begin my thoughts of painting with colors and shapes, or feelings.
On Facebook a good friend of mine said this was very different from some of my other work.
It is finished, but the painting above was the draft.