Welcome to the Garamond Morning. I couldn’t be more inspired than by these words. 1) Gramham Greene quote from The Heart of the Matter 2) This is a title from Flannery O’Connor. Great use of words here. 3) Howard Nemerov Poem “Because you asked about the Difference between Poetry and Prose” First line. 4) Part…

I have been feeling a bit down lately. All of my new friendships are withering away. It has been difficult to be inspired by other people. And I don’t know what I am doing with my life. I have been looking inward for hope and motivation. Yesterday, a withering friend sent me a link to…

Since my family visited and we had our amazing travels together, I’ve wanted paintings to remind me. Here’s a lighthouse in the San Juan Islands.

I felt really bad when I forgot about my coworker Nate when dividing the tips last thursday. I decorated a new tip jar for him. I labeled it with definitions of words that contain his name. Word definitions include magnate, dominate, enate and lunate. The two false definitions are: “nate-v. to be the best ever”…

I like lilies. My new friend Miranda was telling me about her tattoo and a particular part of it symbolizing lilies of the valley, the flower of May. I didn’t know that. I did this painting for her and for my new appreciation of these adorable bell-esque flowers. I got the words from one of my…

I really like quotes, little snippets of great language. After the dogwood french proverb, I thought I would try a little more. I am not too sure about the font. But, I like the integration, language and visual arts together. Quote by Elizabeth browning, I think.

I’m meeting new people and a strange mix of inspiration is coming into my life right now. Carolyn is such a special force, but I don’t know where that’s going. It’s the spiral staircase that’s in her apartment she currently is living that reminds me of her. Her paintings with alien interweaving tentacles are beautiful.…

The Nicole Series has had its last breath. This hideous one shant be included. I painted over it immediately after photographing it. What is right with this? The backside of the torso doesn’t have the same femininity as the front side. None of the open, nurturity(?) and the flowerhead doesn’t make any sense. I was…