'Ello!

Well I'm back in blustery old Brighton at the moment! Quite a shock from Florida... why just last week I was sunning at the beach and now I'm wearing heavy jackets and scarves. I heard rumors that it was warm up until I arrived, but I'm sure their opinion of 'warm' differs from mine. Yesterday we had a light flurry of snow that lasted about 2 minutes. Although I hadn't seen snow in 8 years and was enchanted to see it, I must admit I'm glad it didn't last longer as surely that would have meant my Floridian bones would have wound up even more frozen than they already are.

I've started working on a new Deep Thinkers drawing, this one featuring a lovely green parrot, the Thai language, and old typewriter keys. By the end of the month I'll be in France and resume my normal posting habits then!

Busy Busy!

I've been super busy lately getting ready to leave for Europe. I'm winding down my business here in Florida, by finishing up paintings and organizing my art and art supplies to be taken overseas. For example, in preparation for doing more landscape paintings in France, I've cut to size thirty 4" x 6" pieces of heavy 300lb hot-pressed watercolor paper with an X-acto knife, which I then triple-gessoed. That was a task!

Recently I took a walk in downtown Tarpon Springs with my camera, photographing some of the neat old buildings. Later I played around with some of the photos in Photoshop, to make them look aged and interesting. Here's what I came up with!