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Monday, May 12, 2008

What On Earth Is This?


It's been a busy week working on the NYC restaurant commission. This certainly doesn't look like my palette, does it! But it's an interesting project anyway. Huge though, about 22 feet long by 11 feet tall. Stay tuned for more images, it's actually too big to put on my design wall to photograph, even in parts!

In the meantime, I finished Cattus Island Sunset #2 for the L.A. couple. It's a different size and has softer colors than the original and will be shipped tomorrow.

Also got the contract for the Atlantic City Medical Center project, so it's a go. I made the 20x20 studies of the Marshlands Triptych as my proposal and that's what they approved, but at double the size. So I'll be working on those as soon as this project gets out the door.

Today's weather is just horrible. Nerve-wracking actually. We've already lost another one of my beloved trees because of high winds. That's the second in three days because of the weather. I keep thinking one is going to crash on the house and my studio faces the woods. Zoe, our border colllie, is under my feet because she's nervous too. I can't imagine what the people who homes have been ravaged by the recent tornadoes have gone through.

P.S. I just checked my site stats and saw that I had a few visitors from Texas already today....hint, hint.....this project does have something to do with Texas, after all it's a barbeque restaurant!

3 comments:

PaMdora said...

I made a red-white-blue quilt once, and it was a lot of fun to take such great colors and make them into something unexpected (ie not your typical patriotic theme).

We've had a series of tornados all spring the have been too close for comfort. I know what you mean about nervous, my dog has turned into a fraidy cat.

Darren Daz Cox said...

best thing about crappy weather is there is always an excellent day soon after!

Joanie San Chirico said...

That's for sure! Yesterday was beautiful. The beaches were severly eroded in the storm though and with only 9 days to Memorial Day, the towns are panicking.

Today looks like another winner!