Summer Solstice shadows

This felt celebratory. Maybe the new Juneteenth federal holiday, or maybe the 32nd anniversary of an excellent marital partnership. Or maybe just the trumpets of the summer weather I love so much.

Not finished, obviously. Working on a design for a door.

I’m working on a portrait for a friend, that has a horse in it. I need more practice on horses, I don’t know them the way I know, say, cats. The legs always seem to come out weird and wrong. The colors were fun though!

the bugs of hot summer

looking in from the summer garden, the leaves brush my cheek

I spent my studio time painting in negative space.

I ran out of free time, so ended up drawing as I listened in to my Wednesday book group, which is working through Mary Greer’s 21 ways to Read a Tarot Card. One of the exercises was embodying the 4 of Pentacles from the Rider-Waite deck, which obviously happened while I was setting up the drawing. So here’s my version of that card based on memory and the description read by the book group’s leader of the day. The frog just happened to stop by on its own.