drawing and painting

"Kenya"
36 x 48

This painting is an addition to my Africa Series. This is another moment that Ryan captured with his camera. This little girl was pretending she was shy but kept slowly moving closer to Ryan, posing as she crept down the hill. The other child in the picture saw Ryan's camera and made his way down as well. This particular moment was in the beginning of a series of pictures, by the end there were 3 children up close and personal peering into the lens. So much of our interaction was like this, shy and cautious at first but friendly and energetic soon after. I named this painting Kenya and put the flag across the image because it seemed so true to my experience there.

This is a drawing I did in Illustrator from a sketch. This is my new favorite thing to do. If you know of anyone who needs illustrations, send them my way!

"Wild and Free"
36 x 48

This is an oil painting that I worked on for 2 days. I don't know if I'm finished with it yet. Erik W. Heavey, this painting makes me think of you.

Nemesis

Ryan got in a knife fight with a bagel yesterday... the bagel won. How did this come about? I'm sure you can guess, it's the familiar bagel cut injury, but from his reaction there was no way to tell how bad it was. All I heard was, "Oh shoot." He wasn't panicked, he was annoyed. I thought he dropped his food in dishwater or something. I was curious, "What happened?" to which he responded, "I cut myself, kind of bad." Always an adventure that husband of mine.

We made the familiar drive to Urgent Care in Arden Hills where they gave him 5 stitches in his left hand. Ouch. There are a few lessons here. First, no matter how many harmless times you've used the palm of your hand as a cutting board, it's NEVER a good idea. Second, if you don't want to drive yourself to urgent care, I suggest not showing me your 1.5 "long - profusely bloody wound. This time it wasn't even that I don't know how to drive a stick, it would have been irresponsible for me to get behind the wheel in such a woozy state.

That's right, he was a man and drove himself... with a bloody hand, in a manual car, with a woozy wife all the way there. The funniest thing was, before we left the only concern and panic he expressed was for the bagel and whether or not it was going to be edible by the time we made it home. It was not.

As for now, he's doing fine, all stitched up, they come out in 9 days. He's bummed about missing basketball for the next 2 weeks, which may be what really made him learn the proper bagel cutting lesson. (p.s. he has an extremely high pain tolerance. It's amazing really.)

Demetri Martin

I was listening to clip from one of Demetri Martin's stand up routines and I heard something that really made sense to me.

"Swimming is a confusing sport to me, because sometimes you do it for fun... but other times you do it to NOT DIE."

I mean really.