My Muse

After what has been a really BAD 8 days...it is time I posted SOMETHING.

I will start at Last Friday11th, where this post really started.

On Friday the 11th, Emily had the day off

for one of the President's Days.

We spent the entire day drawing and painting in my studio.

That kid can sketch and sketch and sketch.

I admire her childlike absence of fear

and the fact that her creativity is so fluid.

Her young mind is clutter free.  No deadlines, bills to pay,  laundry to do, 

groceries to buy, dinner to make, house to clean, etc. etc..

All of the stuff that jumbles my creativity is devoid watching her

fill pages with drawings.

We both chose canvases and away we went.

I LOVE Emily's drawing on the canvas.

She did not want to paint it.
When queried, she said she was afraid, so I didn't push.  

She will start painting when she is ready.

The girl I created is a representation of myself...

happily taking the leap into the great blue sky, brush and palate in hands.

Onto my new direction.

Rita says it should be my new business card.

Yesterday I decided to paint Emily's girl while she was at school...

she was so surprised

to come home and see her done and Loves it!

Our work side by side.

 I look forward to a lifetime of creating and painting beside my daughter Muse, Emily.

 I want to absorb her childlike fearless creativity and hope she maintains it before the

realities of adulthood take over.