I Won!!!

Glad at Art Tradition Gallery

Hello Beautiful Art Friends,

I attended last week my friend and fellow artist, Darrel McPherson's art reception and he had a drawing for two of his beautiful paintings and I won!!!! I was the first winner so I could choose which one I wanted. I'm thrilled that I won as I have purchased two of his paintings before and this will make a great addition to my collection.

I hurt my back a couple of weeks ago lifting a table and somehow I pulled something, I could immediately feel it. It seems to be taking a bit to heal so I haven't been able to paint as much as I would like to as some movements really hurt.

I did start a painting of a violinist.  I love violin music, sometimes that's all I play when I do paint. While at the Normal Heights Farmer's Market I spotted a musician playing his violin and asked him if I could take photos. He nodded yes, so I took photos and video.  I returned today to the market and showed him the painting that is almost complete and he loved it! He was really impressed so once I finish it, I think I'm going to gift him a print of it.

My son is now stationed in San Diego for almost a year so we have postponed our moving until next summer. I went to Liberty Station Artwork today and since I will be here next summer, I'm applying next year for a both. Hopefully I will get it.

I am planning on participating on another 30 paintings in 30 days Challenge next month. I will be making small paintings on mat board again. It was a great challenge last year and looking forward to it again.

This is it for now.


With Love,
Glad

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Art and Spirit Recording of Talk

With Love,
Glad

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Travel and Art

Little Sunflower, 18" x 24" on canvas

Hello Beautiful Art Friends,

It's been busy at my end again. If you subscribe to my newsletter you may already know that this year I got engaged! Yes! Planning a wedding and moving takes a lot of time.

We took a trip to AZ in March as a potential place to move but I found out I'm allergic to something in the air there. It was terrible, so hard to breath, and my throat felt raw and painful.  When I returned to San Diego I did a google search and found out AZ is one of the worse places for people with allergies or asthma and San Diego is the top place to live if you have those problems. I guess I never knew I had problems because I live in San Diego.

In May we explored Tallahassee but my future husband found it hard to enjoy with the heat, humidity and bugs. And we do like sidewalks as we take a walk almost every day and in Talli, as in AZ, not all neighborhoods have sidewalks.

So we are still looking for a place we both like. As for the wedding we decided to do it in WI. CA is where most of our friends are, but my children are in FL and my partner's family in WI, and since his mom can't travel due to health problems, we will get hitch in Milwaukee Wisconsin. I myself love Milwaukee but apparently it could get bitter cold in the winter so we are looking at April 2018 for the wedding.

I have had a chance to paint nevertheless. In May 12 small paintings sold to a couple in Hawaii expecting their first child.  They wanted original artwork for the nursery and I'm so glad they choose my artwork. How awesome is that? Their baby will start with a great art collection, but most importantly, beautiful images for her/him to look at everyday.

This is it for today. By the way, if you are local, my work is at the Del Mar Fair in the Wild Animal section. I went to the opening reception and got to see all the other great works of art.

Love,
Glad




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