In Love! (part 2)

The other big love of the weekend. Merkin the Iguana! 

This guy has been coming by the Lazy Dog shack looking for treats. Kelly fed it a plum the other day and I left some watermelon rinds for him.

Sure enough, he chowed down. We're going to feed him everyday! Yay!

Good music and iguanas. It was a fun weekend.

In Love!

Great band playing at the Green Parrot this weekend. The Revivalists. Got chills listening to them sing the whole time. This is the lead singer.

The guy behind us is the sax player. Gotta love a good photobomb!

My girlfriends pushed me to go ask for a picture and I'm glad they did. In the process, I was a total nerd. Saw he had a tip bucket before this whole thing went down and tried to pull out some cash. Realized later it was three dollars and his look when I threw it in was priceless. 

Oh well, I bought a CD to make up for it. Hot damn! Their cover of the Stones tune "Its Just a Shot Away" at the end was unreal. If you have a chance to see them I highly recommend it. Band from NOLA and bad ass performers.

Sea Grapes

I finally figured out what leaves these are.

Sea Grapes. I love them even more with the name.

Was looking forward to boating today but am glad the rain cancelled it instead. This week was exhausting people stuff. Needy, crazy people stuff. Summertime visitors are starting to get on everyone's nerves. 

Seeing the Revivalists at the Parrot helped. So did resting up and just chilling.

This week in summer has been the strangest so far. Hoping the next week is better.  

You don't bite, do you?

While having a bit of dinner before seeing a movie, I had a tourist pull up a seat next to me asking: "You don't bite do you?"

"Actually I do." I responded as I kept eating.

Apparently this kind of answer gets you free drinks. I had no idea and will always plan on saying yes from now on whenever I am asked that question. 

It was either that or the description I gave of the book I had in front of me after he asked what I was reading:

"Well, its about a post apocalyptic world where the families of rebels have to offer their kids up for a game where they all kill each other and there can only be one winner. Yeah, its kinda dark but really good."

Not too sure but my free beer was quite tasty.

Guess we'll see how I can scare the new pottery class next week. I really love days off.

Sitting Still

Lightning Bug - Acrylic on Wood

Sometimes you start something, put it down and it sits. And sits. and sits.

You stare at it, knowing something is missing but you can't put your finger on what exactly that is. 

Then suddenly one day... its time. You pick it up and it all makes sense. You know where to go and it flows so easily.

It happens with paintings all the time. I have several waiting to be finished but something needs to happen first. Love how that works. 

I'm seeing that pattern in normal life too. Stillness is hard but necessary. It all comes out perfectly in the end, no matter how you view it in the present. 

Back to Bugs

It was only a matter of time...Back to bugs!! Beetle started on canvas with acrylic. Loving the canvas and liquid Golden Acrylics.

Poinciana in bloom all over the island. Its hard not to paint them.

Peek a boo!

My American Beauty moment. Cars going past were wondering who the retarded girl was taking pictures at puddles. Those leaves are so damn luminous its hard not to stop. Especially when they stand out in gray muck.

The bigger picture. 

Really enjoying the down time. Finding things to paint and working on the website which has become really fun especially now I have a decent scanner. But as it always happens to get on a roll... marketing comes a calling. 

Got a nice reference to possibly write an advertorial for ArtNews. And right before I was asked to write some biographies for the kids at work. I had two days to write 5 biographies and selling intro for the dudes. 


Glad to know that stuff comes back just like riding a bike cause I busted it out pretty quick. Felt good about it but not sure I want to deviate from the art right now. This always seems to come up. 

Why not both, I say? I know where my heart lies. Who knows maybe it'll happen this time with a dash of travel writing. But to be honest all I care about right now are...Bugs.

On a side note, how I did not discover the Radiohead channel on Pandora before today astounds me. Its the perfect music to paint bugs to. 

Fluff and Fold

Lookie at what I found when I went back to pick up my clothes. 

Was really surprised the bird didn't poop on the dog and apparently they get along.

The lady who owns them said she let the bird bite the dog once and now they just agree to disagree. Gotta love laundry day in good ole Key West.

Road Coconut

Favorite thing to do is find things on the road to paint. This week's find, an awesome coconut. 

God damn, I love lines. 


Still in progress...