March 25th

March so far has been particularly busy with the kids being on spring break, and me getting ready for my May 9th Durango show.  Right now I am working on Mountain Range paintings and am using photos and sketches from my trip to Ouray, Colorado two years ago.  The paintings so far are turning out to be really exciting with deep greens being the prevalent color.  Before the show I will send out an e-mail alert to check out the portfolio page with Colorado paintings.   I do love Colorado and am really looking forward to getting back out there in May, even though I won’t get back home to my kids till the end of the day on Mother’s Day (sigh). 

The other big thing my family has going this weekend is our Fourth Annual Walk for Autism down in San Diego.  Every year we get a large group together down in Balboa Park and do a 3 mile walk and then afterwards head over to my husband’s dad’s house for Beth’s Infamous Chips.  Beth, (Mitch’s step-mom) makes amazing tortilla chips, which she says are very easy, but no one really believes her.  The Autism Walk is really awesome because we have a terrific group of friends who really go above and beyond to get out there and support our family and Team Tobey.  We look forward to it every year, and always love a good excuse to get together with friends.  I would like to thank our good friend Duane from HomeTown Financial for supporting Team Tobey by providing t-shirts.  They always look awesome.

In the next week my family is going up North for a last week of spring skiing and some outdoor painting time.  I am really looking forward to spending some time outside, reading my pile of novels that are currently stacked by the door, and I think that my kids are looking forward to trying out their scooters in new terrain. 
In the meantime, new work is in progress.  Paintings of various degrees of completion are propped up all over the house, and the creative juices are flowing…I better get back to work!