Toy Blocks

I am in the process of learning perspective. Persperctive is the apparent diminishing of scale as the distance from the viewer increases. Each of the Toy Blocks and Yo-Yo has a vanishing point. A vanishing point is the point on the horizon line to which the receeding parallel lines diminish. In other words, it is the way artist get a 3 dimensional object to fit in a 2 dimensional space. I am planning on doing a whole series on Toys.

Old Sugar Mill

My Mother & I went on a cruise to the Caribbean Islands about 3 years ago. We toured 6 Islands. I don't remember what Island we were on but the tour van past by this over grown ruins of an old sugar mill. So, I took a picture of it and decided to paint it this year.

Egg in a Frame

When I was in 5 & 6 grade, all the girls in the class had Home Economics on Tuesdays & Thursdays. Half of the year was spend learning how to sew and the other half was spend learning to cook. The School Board gave the Home Economics teacher a very small budget to work with. So, she was very limited in what she could have us cook. One of the dishes we made was called Egg in a Frame.

Egg in a Frame is easy to make. You just take one slice of bread and make a hole in the center of it with a cup or glass. Then butter it on both sides and put it in a pan for 2 minutes. Then put a egg in it. When the egg starts to bubble, flip it over. Let it cook until the bread gets toasted. Take it out of the pan and enjoy it.

One of the things I like to do when I'm painting is to put a picture within a picture. If you look closely at the picture, you can see the egg in a frame, an Orange, and a cup of Coffee. Now, if you look at the cup of Coffee, you can see a second picture on the cup.

My 15 Minutes of Fame

This is a photo taken on August 10, 2008. The man to the left of me is Tyron and the lady to the right of me is Lisa. They are the co-host of a local cable access program called Break Though. Local cable access programming is only seen in one or two towns. In this case, the towns are: Newark, New Jersey and Jersey City, New Jersey. The program that was taped today will be seen on Thursday, September 18, 2008 on Chanel 19 in Newark at 11:00p.m. As of this posting , the date it will be seen in Jersey City has not been determine. In Jersey City, Break Though can be seen on Chanel 51 at 10:30p.m.

There were two topics of conversation: horses and water color painting. We talked about what inspired me to paint and ride. I got to show and talk about 3 of my paintings (which I will post in a later Blog). But more important to me, was that I got my 15 minutes of fame.