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I did this picture a very long time ago and never did anything with it. Me without a mouth. I look at it from time to time and think - how can I print this? How can I look at this? How can anyone? Who would want to see this hanging in their home above their sofa framed? No one, of course.

I keep coming back to it though and it occured to me today, its not me without a mouth, it's me without a voice.

Eating disorders. What can I say about them that hasn't been said? It doesn't matter if you eat too little or too much... very few people who have an ED haven't done both. I've been both too skinny and too fat. Multiple times. When I was too skinny I felt much bigger and when I was too fat I never felt quite as fat as I was... I never am quite in the same place as my body.
And I didn't get for a long time... this whole thing - what makes you eat beyond being sick... and what makes you not eat..beyond being sick? What is it? If that picture is me now how long do I have to go back in my life to find a picture of myself with a mouth? A voice? How little would I be?

When I did this photograph about a year ago I couldn't imagine doing anything with it... but I kept it.

Maybe if I gave my little girl her voice back I wouldn't have to eat to keep her quiet... and wouldn't have to not eat to give her power and control. Maybe my little girl does have a voice if I can just find her...and let her speak.

This card was done in standard ACEO format of 2 1/2 inches by 3 1/2 inchs on heavy mat board. It started with a background collage with multiple art papers to enhance the main image.

An avocado in Mrs. Brady's Kitchen

This is a work in progress. Found myself doing another retro style painting. An avocado in avocado and orange - How poetic!

It's on 5 x 7 masonite.

I'm digging it

available at the arts unbound gallery in new jersey

THREE ORIGINAL PAINTING ACEOS ON CANVAS

There Aceos are available for sale on eBay. They are all done with acrylic paint on aceo sized gallery wrapped canvases.





Zen Landscape Aceo








Retro Pear Aceo








Still life lemons

For anyone who doesn't know how small ACEO cards are here is one scanned next to a splenda packet!

Abstracty pear work in progress...

So. More pears. I like them. They are pretty, have a cool organic shape going on...lots of great colors and seem

to lend themselves to tons of styles of art.

So this is the first shot of the pear as a work in progress on 5 x 7 inch masonite.

Here is shot 2 of pear work in progress... Getting there!

available at the arts unbound gallery in NJ

MAKE LEMONADE PAINTING -ACEO

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And now for something completely different.... In the past I've only listed ACEO cards based on my art and photography. I used mat board, collaged with art papers...print my photographs on regular, photo, and some pretty darn unusual things ...than put it all together and make a complex card attached to an emotion, feeling or experience.

The simple things in life are beautiful as well... Things with visual simplicity. One thing...Two maybe...just a few colors... No art papers... Something you can put a story to, instead of me.... I paint. I rarely list anything on ebay that isn't an ACEO card done in the manner I described above because...well, frankly they don't seem to sell very often. (Just keeping it real!) There are wonderful artists on ebay and perhaps my selling just the cards...or just paintings...without an attached emotion isn't the same. Maybe people would rather I stick to what I was doing but I had to try... I have this thing in my head... My artist-self - how I see myself as an artist - is wrapped up in my abilty to paint...or not.... and well, if I can, I am, if I can't I'm not...and...oh man, I didnt mean to make this listing a therapy session!

Enough of that! This card is done on a teeny sized gallery wrappy canvas. How do they make them??? Its 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 inches and I even took a picture of it with a spenda package so you can see what your getting if your not familar with how small aceo's are. The other picture shows it from the side and you can see there are sides :) I have since painted the sides a bright blue like I paint my larger canvas paintings. I have signed it on the front with 3 bars... and on the bottom with my last name. Its sealed with a matte acrylic sealer. As much as I try to get colors correct, its hard in photography... and all monitors are different as well. It may be different when you get it but no matter how it looks on your monitor...I promise the lemons are shades of yellow and the background is shades of blue.

If it doesnt sell... well, thank you for looking!! I have other aceo's listed... My usual kinds as well as a few more like this!

Retro Pear Aceo

I have to say, i like this little pear! It's done on a little 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 inch gallery wrapped canvas.

Painted with acrylic paints. It's my second still

life and I am really enjoying doing them.

While this one started out to be just a pear - much like the lemons are just lemons some where along the lines it ended up being a bit stylized with a dark border around the pear and a graded background. I will say that the background is more on the brown-orange-cream side than the red-pink-light pink side but it still looks nice I think.

Some day I will work out my camera issues.

Satisfyingly Lemony Deux

I got some insightful suggestions from wetcanvas.com about the lemons yesterday and I worked some more on the lemons this morning.

Tried to play with the light on the lemons, especially the back one. I wanted to make the shading on the whole lemon a bit more graduated but it didn't work out quite like I'd planned.

I changed the background a bit too. It's vague but more solid across the bottom, more varied and light across the top.... and I changed the color of the shadows in general.

I'm happier with this verison. I'll keep working with it!

sold

Satisfyingly Lemony

This is new for me! Painting actual things... It's a work in progress.

I started painting these lemons this morning and it will take some tweaking to get them satisfyingly lemony!

THE SNEAKY CHEF - A book review

The Sneaky Chef by Missy Chase Lapine is about making delicious food better. There are other books that do it, but the The Sneaky Chef does it best.

My family's eating habits were just a schoochie-bit above fast food tastes. Feeding them anything with a whiff of health was near impossible... There was an extreamly long list of "unacceptable" food in my house. It got to the point that when anyone asked what was for dinner it was easier to say, "We are having, Gross, I'm not eating that!"

I bought the book out of deparation but it's worked out great. The recipes REALLY are easy and delicious. And of the ones I tried no one (NO ONE!) knows I'm thowing beans and veggies in their precious meals... It's a big hit with me.

TAMPOPO - A favorite DVD review

It's billed as a Japanese Noodle Western. That alone was enough for me to see it years ago. And I've been a fan ever since. It hit all my favorite quirky notes - the food shots were beyond fabulous...the story is unique... The shots of Japan are terrific.

It's just plain crazy-fun! Check out the other reviews on Amazon...I'm not the only one who's a fan of Tampopo!

Filling the empty spaces...

The soup looked beautiful so I got my camera. I took a picture of the Udon soup but something nagged at me... How do you get full if your stomach isn't the thing that's empty?

Sushi Porn....

Yum... That's pretty much it....except I'm full.

Sushi Dinner photos

Photographs of Negimaki, sushi and green tea mochi... More of my obsessive food photo'ing...

I didn't know if I was going to include the food in the blog but looks like I did afterall.

Eat your green veggies!

More food porn photography...but at least these pictures are foods that are good for you!

Ramune Soda Junky...

I love the stuff but can't explain why...