job (why do wicked men sometimes prosper?)

it's been a very long time since I've done a collage - this one, for how simple it appears, took a surprisingly long time.

Many of the pieces in my last exhibit were about breath and breathing.  This piece has that theme, as well as wondering about some of the perplexing questions about faith.

job (why do wicked men sometimes prosper?)

mixed media on handmade paper

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8 1/4 x 8 1/2

detail

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untitled - (woman with a wistful smile)

untitled - (woman with a wistful smile)

click to see large

acrylic on panel

8" x 10"

NFS

daguerrotype painting - young woman with a wistful smile.

I love looking at old photographs - tin types, daguerrotypes, cartes de viste.

It's like a window into the past.

I didn't quite capture the wonderful subtle smile on her face…..

I'll try again at some point

painting everyday - two gulls, fort mason

two gulls, fort mason

9.5 x 12

acrylic on panel

cat sleeping (thunder)

cat sleeping (thunder)

SOLD

8x10

acrylic on panel

thunder is the wonderful house cat where I was housesitting in sebastopol.
whenever thunder comes in and rubs up against me, I can't help but singing 
"and he strikes (dah dah dah)… like THUN....der ball!!"

ginger, the dog, is completely devoted to thunder….I don't totally understand the dynamic between them-  when ginger is alone in the house, she gets the dog bed, but as soon as thunder enters the cat door, ginger  relinquishes the bed to thunder, and finds a place on the floor.

I love watching cats and dogs sleep, the little twitchy movements of their paws and faces-  the unknowable mysteries of the adventures they have in their sleep.

a painting a day (more or less) - black and white hen

To get me back into the painting habit, I'm reviving the painting-a-day*.

Just got back from sebastopol, a week in the country, house-sitting.
Lovely - chickens, ducks, and a really, really mean goose.
Starting off the paintings with a silly chicken painting -
sadly, not from life (I've included a photo of an attempt to even photograph a chicken - they were attracted to the red beads of my necklace, and kept pecking at them.)

black and white chicken

acrylic on panel

8x10

sold

black and white chicken (detail)

hold still, hold still…..

yikes!

holding my favorite

four chickens, little farm at tilden park

* painting-a-day, with the occasional day or so off for camping trips, etc