The Kettle Creek Auction was last night.  I donated two prints.  The whole event was really fun.  I would have liked to have seen my work raise more money for the event, but that's probably just sour grapes over framing costs.  It did remind me that I had been thinking about working in standard framing size to make it both easier on myself and also make framing more accessable to anyone wanting unframed work.  Today I framed a figure gesture and small painting in regular old retail frames...and I have to say, I can't tell the difference.  No time to get into the studio today.  I'm taking the aforementioned works to a party celebrating my Mom and stepdad's wedding anniversary, as well as his birthday.  The painted landscape is for him.  It is one of the first paintings I completed last summer after not painting in over 8 years.  He has always been so encouraging of my artwork, especially when I had stopped.  He would always ask if I was painting again and talk about how much he loved my work.   It means alot to give him one of those first "starting over" pieces.  The other is a life drawing gesture of a woman that they both knew when they first got together (mid 70's).  Turns out she was a life drawing model at my university when I "grew up".    

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