These were meant to be breakfast, but they got painted first. We went shopping yesterday and found the markets just bursting with beautful things, and no wonder -- the hot weather has accelerated and also compressed the growing and ripening process, so that Quebec strawberries are still coming just as peaches and corn are beginning to be available. It seems a bit bizarre.
When I was eating my breakfast at home today, I was visited by a very fine neighborhood cat, no doubt the one who's been digging in my planter-boxes...
At the studio I'm about to start work on a new print. And I've uploaded some new things to the shop this week, including a small handmade journal/sketchbook. All of this feels like a big venture into the unknown, so different from a physical gallery, but I was gratified to see there had been many visitors - mainly from this blog and FB -- and delighted to sell four things in the past week, which, along with the blog re-design and your kind and helpful comments, was enormously heartening!
I've lightened the blog background and hope it's sufficient. Please let me know.
Bon fin de semaine, everyone, or as a lot of people say here: bon weekend! My sympathy to all my friends in London -- and please write about it!
yummy art, photo, and breakfast. i would have to day the breakfast looks yummy.
Posted by: magnolia | July 27, 2012 at 07:39 PM
Oh, what beautiful strawberries! Your painted ones, I mean. :-) And your blog redesign looks great. Love the photos from your trip to Charlevoix. I think the background sets them off quite nicely. Bon weekend!
Posted by: Leslee | July 28, 2012 at 09:55 AM
Thanks, Magnolia! It was definitely yummy.
Thanks, Leslee -- I'm glad you like the redesign, and you're a good judge since we've been reading each other's blogs for almost a decade!
Posted by: Beth | July 28, 2012 at 11:46 AM
Beth,
I'm fasting and I'm trying not to salivate at your beautifully drawn strawberries.
Posted by: Sitiaishah | July 29, 2012 at 07:32 AM
Beth I was tempted by the new looking sidebar to check out "Essays and the Blog" but cannot see when you wrote it. I notice your new entries are dated and it might be good (but how difficult?!?) to date the others?
In what lifetime, you may well ask.... well.... maybe you could attract a 'new media' intern to help you....
Posted by: Vivian | July 30, 2012 at 01:11 PM
Love that strawberry!
Posted by: Hattie | July 30, 2012 at 04:36 PM