Me and Monet

I was listening to Garrison Keillor on Prairie Home

Companion (prairiehome@publicradio.org) the other

day and heard him do a wonderful humourous bit

on visiting a museum and finding that all the guards

were artists. Famous ones. He gets into a conversation

with Monet and without telling you the entire skit,

it ends with one of those things you just moan over...

Monet tells Garrison that 'we have no Monet to buy

deGas to make the Van Gogh. Oooooooooooooooo.

These little water lily paintings I do are my homage

to Monet. This one is 5" x 5", framed. It is $100.

Can you tell?

Can you tell where I wipe my brush?

Not too hard to see that my heavy-duty

apron gets lots of use, and that I am

right-handed!

My assistant took this shot as I was

working on a small panel which I have

taped to a piece of matboard so I won't

be sticking my fingers in wet paint!

Before dinner

Here's another of my 5" x 7" recent works.

I find that when I see the work on the computer

monitor, it always looks much bigger than when

one is viewing a small vignette of a painting in the

context of everything else in a room. I hope this

makes sense! It is framed and is $100.