As the temperature outside becomes cooler, my fingers start to itch. I long to be knitting about 99% of the time. Yesterday I painted my favorite knitting needles, but today I had to paint some yarn. I am a tactile person. The way things feel matters to me. I HATE working with yarn that feels …
Today I painted my Addi Click Needles. They are an interchangeable knitting needle set. They come with a number of different needles that you can affix to different lengths of cord, making it possible to knit a variety of projects with just this one set of needles. My dad, Ben, taught me to knit about …
As a plus size woman, I’ve looked for bigger idols all my life. I love Mama Cass Elliot’s voice. I also adore her wardrobe. If I could just have one of each of her outfits, I would be a happy woman. I love a lot of her songs, but the ones that pick me up …
My painting of Margaret Sanger seems to have raised some issues. A few people have commented to me about her affiliation with the eugenics movement. One person even commented that she was a supporter of Hitler and the KKK. If there is one thing I love, it’s research. You can ask anyone who knows me …
This Joanne Woodward/Paul Newman movie, called A New Kind Of Love, is high camp. Joanne Woodward is Sam Blake, a fashion designer who rips off high fashion designs to sell to a mass market. She’s butch and wonderful. She meets up with Paul Newman and wacky hijinks ensue. I love this movie for soooooo many …
Grace Jones is one of those artists who seems on the edge of sanity. She’s got that look in her eye like she could care less about the mores of polite society, and I like it! It should come as no surprise that I am a HUGE disco fan. I think my first Grace Jones …
Try this for a not so deep dark secret: I love the show Remington Steele. Follow: It’s got an amazing lead female character, Laura Holt. She’s smart and sassy. She also yells a lot, but who wouldn’t when you are being overlooked for a fictional male boss. We all know that Pierce Brosnan is easy …
Today I painted a painting of Margaret Sanger. She was the founder of Planned Parenthood and an advocate for educating women about their bodies and their reproductive cycles. I highly recommend reading the wikipedia page on her, as it details her life far better than I can. I drew her giving a serious side eye …
Today was a drag. Maybe it’s just getting back into the groove after vacation, or the fact that it’s still 80 degrees out there. I needed a real pick me up. No one can make you happy to be sad like Blossom Dearie. Unfortunately I was pretty unhappy with my drawing today too. At some …
I have such mixed feelings about David Cassidy. On the one hand I love his pop songs and his voice ever so much. On the other, he seems to really abhor the pop idol mantle. Still, his music is some of my favorite kind of music, so here he is as one of my 100 paintings. …
