Joy Comes From Giving Thanks

Greetings wonderful friends!  Hope you all had a great holiday!

I’m hopeful that 2012 will be a time of very exciting change.  I’ve been more than ready and didn’t realize it.  We can look at necessary change as painful or as adventure.  It’s our choice.  Me?  I choose adventure!

In the months to come I’ll be announcing some new projects that I hope you’ll be excited about and will want to join me in.  Keeping it a secret for now.  You’ll have to come back for updates.

Meanwhile, here is a new drawing to get you started on a new year.  Enjoy and be sure to keep in touch.  I’m hoping to make this website more user friendly and easier to navigate and communicate – as I learn how.

Now go and find something that brings you joy.  Write it down.  Practice gratitude!

Navigate to the store and see what’s available.  Thanks!

Fly Catcher Plant

Some plants need to attract protein as nourishment.  I don’t know why.  That’s the mystery of a Venus Flytrap.  This week, to amuse myself, I created a whole new bizarre plant that attracts flies but not in the same way as the Venus Flytrap.  This plant is part vine, part python.  It attracts flies, perhaps by smell, then wraps tendrils around it like a python squeezing its prey to death.  Cool, huh?  I know, I’m sick.  Enjoy my macabre sense of humor.

When I do my weekly drawing, sometimes I just try to amuse myself!  A couple of weeks ago I gave you a very thorny plant.  This week I give you a plant with a viscious taste for something meaty – like a Venus flytrap with a tongue.  However, I’m pretty sure this plant isn’t just looking for flies.  What do you think?

Have a great art week!

Do you have a dangerous garden with poisonous plants or some that cause injury if you wander too close?  I do, I like it and I don’t know why.  Maybe it’s a way of keeping certain animals or people away? 

I love plants that have been given the means to protect themselves.  Why are we fascinated with a Venus Flytrap?  Or plants that can trap insects in their sticky pitch?  Or those that can kill you with one swallow of their berry.  There’s something intelligent about a plant that can protect itself.  I have a lot of respect for “Smart Plants.”  (Maybe we should call them “iPlants.”)

This week, as a Halloween tribute I suppose, I invented a whole new plant species with awesome red thorns and blood red leaves.  Maybe if this plant actually existed it would keep away the ground squirrels destroying my real garden.  If pitted against my “iPlant”, I don’t think the squirrels would be back, do you?  Enjoy a great week in art.

Cat & Pussywillows

Personally I don’t have a cat.  Wish I could but my bad bird won’t permit it.   All animals do funny stuff, but cats crack me up.  They get so embarrassed when they are caught falling off of something of making a dumb move and they know you saw them.  Then they give you the “what are you lookin’ at?” look and wander off humilated.  I love that cats can get embarrassed just like people.

I’m doing a series of cat art, some of which will turn into greeting cards.  But for now, just the original art will be posted for your enjoyment.  Hope you like my cats.  I do.  Enjoy a fun week in art.