Sweet Dreams

Well, despite my best intentions, it has been over 2 weeks since I posted anything.  Some minor household catastrophes and the "flu" took care of that.  It didn't stop me from thinking about art though!  I came to two realizations -- one is that while I'm happy whenever I'm doing art of any kind,  my art is usually pretty true to life and somewhat tightly rendered, while what attracts me while looking at other's work is not necessarily true to life, exact replicas, etc.  I like things that are sometimes a little "quirky", sometimes work that has more of an  illustration quality than actually a painting.  I also realized that I missed plain old drawing.  My start in art many years ago was drawing -- charcoal, pencil, ink.  I think "Sweet Dreams" is a culmination of those two thoughts.  It is not what I (or anyone else, for that matter) expects from me, but I think I like it and I know I had fun doing it!  I know, I know, I always say that!  Anyway, she is 7x10 inches on archival watercolor paper, done in charcoal and pastel.  She's going to my shop on Etsy.