Owls.

I have a new fascination with owls or obsession as one might call it. I have always admired this specific creature of the night – mainly due to the mystery of the actual personality of the bird with the cryptic cries in the dark adding to the suspense. What secrets do these creatures hold? What do they witness when the world is asleep?  I have often wondered and thought about these questions and only associated owls with horror films and ghost stories. However, it is not until now that I’ve gained a new perspective toward these noble statuesque birds.

Recently, I have completed a project – an illustration of an owl as a gift to a close friend of mine. As this painting illustration is intended to be hung as wall décor for her nursery, I used bright hues and repeated fun patterns to create the fitting piece for the child’s room.

I cannot recall last time I had this much fun painting. While I was working on it, I could picture all kinds of different cute scenes involving owls – an array of different colors and stories swarming  its way into my mind and slowly nestling into my thoughts. I was gone in this world of “Owl-boro”. As a result, I decided that I wanted to create a series of  small nursery-oriented paintings of different scenes involving owls. I hope to incorporate some of my other subjects (hands and botanicals) into these artworks. Planning to start work on these sometime within the next month and surely, I will be posting photo updates on progress when possible. I really want to include this series in my Etsy shop which will be up and running in mid-summer.

"You Do It Well".

Floral Gradients.

Owl Illustration Gift.

Working on a project for nursery decor.

Take me back to the Caribbean.

I miss the warm sunny days of tropical summer. On this early and brisk April day, winter’s grip is still pulled tight over us - it doesn’t really feel that spring has  crept in just yet. Most days I imagine spontaneously jumping on a plane and flying to Aruba, the island of my honeymoon – the island of the happy people as I’d like to call it.  The week we spent on the island in late September of 2012, was a week of paradise. It was a week of lingering  purple sunsets, romantic walks by the midnight water, and chilled glasses of the “Brown Lady” cocktail.

I want that time back. Right now!

However, life doesn’t work that way. We cannot rewind and go back, we can only go forward. It will take some hard work and dedication to get on that track – while keeping steady balance – but it can be done. Things happen for a reason and if they don’t, you make them happen for a reason. For now, I will just have to share these photos and rekindle the wonderful Aruban experience with my husband...or I could just  kick off my imaginary flip flops and dance like a freaktoid  to the "Kokomo" tune in our cute little  apartment and pretend I have been taken back to the Caribbean –for next 5 minutes at least :-).