No scratch drawing tonight folks...no daily monkey. I'll get back to all that in time. Just a couple of old photo booth photos of two women who have been very significant in my life. That's my beautiful mother and me at 3 1/2yrs old and my equally beautiful grandmother and me at 8yrs old. Both are still alive, Grandma is about to turn 98 and my mother just turned 77. The reason for this post is that my mother is now gravely ill in a hospital in Northern Indiana and for a variety of reasons, I can't be there. So there you have it. Two midwestern women, both major quirky characters, who had a huge effect on this quirky woman, Linda the artist.
One of my latest scratchboards. This is a 5"x7" Ampersand Art board. http://www.ampersandart.com/ I scratched this out last weekend while doing the EAST studio tour with my friends Aly & Amy. And as usual, I draw what I see. Luna belongs to them and she was in and out of my sight, so I scratched this out for them. Folks visiting my booth asked is this the 'Blue Dog' which I figure is just about as famous as Lassie. And no...Blue Dog is another artist's (George Rodrigue) subject matter (although I think he has taken about as far as can go with tee shirts and other items with the image on it etc...and yet it seems to continue on and on) Therefore, I thought I would clarify. Not a blue dog or THE Blue Dog, this is "Luna the wonder dog of Texas!" I had a lot of fun with this. Art is good, I am happy. As long as I can 'scratch' out a living doing this, I am full of joy.
