Artful Journey

 Purchase, My word of the year one includes one new or different challenge every month. January was dry January, with no alcohol. After that fun, February posed a new challenge, Frugal February, with no unnecessary spending or purchases. Ouch! Thank goodness I picked the shortest month of the year. Luckily, this isn’t a leap year. So far, I have been doing really well, and only succumbed to temptation once. I am thinking progress not perfection, so it’ s in the win column. And now for my purchase. I attended Margaret Shepherd’s opening reception of her calligraphy from Song of Songs at Yale Divinity School. The book contains the artwork on exhibit which took her five years to complete, as well as her thoughts on why she picked the passages and how she interpreted them. The book is beautiful and inspirational, perhaps moving it to the realm of necessary…at least in my opinion.

  Sunset walk with Bailey I took a watercolor class recently and the subject was a couple on a sunset walk. I decided to add a dog to my painting as Onz and Deets adopted a shelter dog 6 months ago. She is super cute, affectionate and loves to go for walks. We are always available for Bailey sitting duty.

Winter in the Dunes  Over the past year, I have taken up pastel painting. I love the vibrancy of the pure color and the impressionistic quality. The medium is challenging, but fun. Fortunately, we haven’t had much snow here, so the inspiration here is from a photograph.