getting to know you

or me as the case were. here is some more about me, (in no particular order) for the last week of Self Portrait Challenge ...

mother
artist
wife
sister
daughter
friend
teacher
traveler
cook
gardener
beach goer
dawdler
human...

picker, grinner? nawh,
silly, you bet!

Self Portrait week 4

Here is my self portrait I painted in oil.
It is 16 by 20 inches. it is full of hand motions just like me, when I talk or type or paint.
Here is another self portrait of me ... drinking my favorite beverage ... coffee..
you can't see the coffee, but it's there. So that is a few more things about me.

Self Portrait Challenge week three more me

Here I am with my husband Rainer being silly as usual. We take photos of ourselves everywhere... mostly we make sure we document ourselves kissing or just our noses and some landmark. But that will be for next week. somehow getting all of ourselves into the shot is just not important. the essence of the four of us is what we ususally go for...

Introductions 2

More for Self Portrait Challenge
I like to garden. Here I am with some of our massively tall sunflowers from last fall. They drew in hummingbirds and lots of bees. The birds enjoyed them in November.

I am not one of these fussy garden types who has to have every weed out each day. I will leave that to Martha and my husband's German parents and their neighbors. Looks great, but there are too many things which I would rather do daily in our short summers here in New England.
But the garden survives with intensive planting and the weekly weeding and gives us a lot of joy.
This year we have expanded the perrenial beds and ripped out the rotting wood deck to create a lower space with bricks and granite my friend Adam is making with us. But for today I can enjoy the flowers and dream of the ones which we will grow this year.

Let me introduce myself ...

Self Portrait Challenge
I am a mother, wife, artist, curator and curious about life. I have a blog called Art Esprit. I have a gallery called artstream.
Everyday I:
try and find beauty in life, I do something creative and work hard at being a good person.
I don't take a lot of crap from people and have that repuation according to my children's acquaintances.
Their friends know better.
I am afraid of not being able to finish all that I would like to do in my lifetime as well as in my day.
I get over that pretty quickly as soon as I sit down in the evening.
I love:
my husband and children deeply
creating things
spending time out of doors
walking
being with close friends
cooking with my husband
writing
alizarin crimson
mixing paint
warmish spring days
warmish fall evenings
living