Shapes in Mid Day Travels

Look above the truck... the sky is falling!

Quilter's banner - each quilter in a class made a mini piece for a collective banner. So cool.

Love the colors of this old building... thinking about our house which desperately needs painting.

Lovely texture in a mod chandelier.

Little pane windows... none are broken, they have different degrees of frosted spray paint or some other fragments from the past.

I know, I promised sunsets last time but the blogger wouldn't allow me to add more photos to this post, the nerve! So, next one... for sure. These are all Portland, discovering the many crumbling, papery, shadowy etc. textures throughout my afternoon... I wanted to document all of these findings. I have a plan to translate these yummy, found textures onto 300lb. watercolor paper - stitching, hole poking and graphite mark making are some of the things planned. I've been hoarding it long enough :)

Still working on the mermaid art quilt... the size is making it a slow project. What I really need is a larger table!

San Francisco Row Houses

I love architecture and the old buildings and styles of San Francisco. I took this photograph a few years back on a trip to Sonoma and Napa... of course we had to hang a bit in SF and go the a great restaurant - The Stinking Rose (yummy garlic food!). This is close to being done, I don't want to overwork it but I may tweak the buildings and lower sky a bit more.

San Francisco Row Houses

The start of a new painting! This is a larger one which is about 20 x 24 in. I know it is not that big, but for me, (I've been doing small paintings on my Half-Julian easel in the dining room) it's a great feeling to get bigger again.

Sausalito Store Front

Here is another Jewel Box painting in progress.

I don't know why I'm so fascinated by Sausalito, California but I am! I've been there several times and always feel like I'm in the south of France (except it's usually kind of cold). The houses are cute, I like the way they're perched on a hill. The place has kind of a 'small town' feel but also hip and happening... plus it's so close to San Francisco. My husband and I used to go there on our many trips to the wine country... but now with kids, who knows if we'll ever return. Those were good, old days - 'todays' and good too, though!