Painted these Outside

                                                                                              acrylic 5x7"

This painting was more recent, within the last few weeks.  Again, I am not so sure if the photo is representing the painting accurately... 

I am always trying to get rid of "things," but since I became a painter of still life, I have had to collect more things to paint.  This vase is a favorite.  You will see more of it, I am sure (it's already in several other paintings).

I didn't know that somebody was photographing me while I painted this.   You can see that my cat Spider was clearly helping.  I don't know why the text below this photo is being centered.  Excuse me while I learn how to make my blog behave.....

(EDIT:  Somebody already noted above commented that this actually is not his photo because since I cropped it, it's not his composition. So give me credit for the bad crop.  I admit I cropped it because I didn't want you Watchers to see any more of the smock I was wearing, because it just gets goofier the lower down it is on me)

By the way, GREAT NEWS for the Commenters among the Watchers...I have figured out how to remove the Word Identification step you have to go through to put a comment on this blog!  Your comment will still go to me before it goes on-line, and now I'll have to use my own brain to decide if an actual human wrote the comment.  I think I'm capable...but if I find too many nonhumans are getting past my brain to the blog, I will have to revert back to the dizzy word thing.