FREE TEXT FRIDAY

"In spite of a sluggish economy, U.S. wine consumption registered its 14th consecutive annual gain in 2007, as Americans drank more wine than Italians for the first time ever and now trail only the French in total wine consumed."

-Wine Spectator

Free Text Friday:

"A portion of the water you drink has already been drunk by someone else, maybe several times over."

- University of Texas School of Public Health, "Fun Food Facts"

Rethinking... I think I like the tattoo better without the red....

FTF #1:

"Nothing measurable matters"
-e.e. Cummings

This is my completed tattoo design... The tattoo had to represent something about myself.
1. I love America and patriotic images
2. I love animals.... I'm a vegan (1 year this month!).. hence the Charles Darwin quote.
3.A more subtle symbol: the bandana represents America and also one of the only memories I have of my dad, who died when I was 4.

I really wanted to use traditional American Sailor tattoo style and use of color, and more specifically use of the eagle as a patriotic symbol.

Another veront landscape painting... finished Friday Aug 7.

8x10 in. acrylic on canvas









And not related fully to anything I should be posting... here are pictures of my first garden :)

This is an acrylic painting I did inspired by a mountain side road in Vermont. The canvas is 18x24 inches, the color looks a tad bit off in the bottom picture. The top picture is pretty accurate.