This spattering of work are some of the new pieces I finished for the show in Blue Hill. There are 9 total.

I love my mentor! I think she will be a good match for me. I have already delved into the assignment she suggested I do to shake up how I go about painting. She says I am an over thinker. So she suggested I just MAKE and not think so much about what it is I am doing and so I am.

I have a stack of used tea bags. Red Rose is the only kind of tea he drinks. It sounds gross but there is something I find quite beautiful about the used bags. They are very organic, delicate and the strings are stained with dry tea. I dipped a few in wax and made a few tea bag angels last Christmas. My collection has grown since as He has been saving his tea bags all year. I found the perfect piece of corragated cardboard, square, it fits 24 teabags in grid. Oh no the grid!

Also, the book project will grow into something very soon. I have been struggling with my writing. It takes time away from the making and I want to be making. I need to just buckle down .

and then I will post some even newer work and maybe some of Jack's as well. He is part of a show that opened last night at the Coleman Burke Gallery in Brunswick. Let me try to do that now.
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