Our new friend

If we could all just be a little more translucent, we could glow like our friend, the mini lobster. When I was painting him I just wanted to get on a dance floor. Recently, I was on a dance floor with a dear friend. It became clear that my favorite song to dance to these days is one called 'Rhythm is a dancer." Have you heard it? It was determined by my friend that one day I might have a pet, and I could name this pet "Rhythm is a dancer." I would like to do that. However, I do not think I will have a pet for a very long time because I don't want one. For now, I would like to give this lobster, who was a temporary pet, and is now probably dead, but who is not dead to me because he lives in this painting, "Rhythm is a dancer." And for the record, if anyone ever listens to that song while looking at this painting under a black light, Riad (for short) will glow a little.

Sand dunes

This fabric was almost enough to make me quit the painting. But then I remember that I am going to finish it. I think it looks like the new Beck album I was listening to when I painted it. It is hard to beat the Georgia O'Keefe out of this painting! At one point I scrubbed the bottom half. Subtraction can be a beautiful thing. A thing I forgot.

This is where I left the painting for a week because it is easier to ignore things if they are ugly and pissing you off. Not to worry! That was then, this is now some other time.