IF: Opinion

In your opinion, am I fat or phat?

IF: Pretend

Give me red blanket, construction paper, and a big box - and I will rule the world!

IF: Late

Midnight, can't sleep, too much on my mind, baby is sleeping peacefully, husband asleep on the couch with the tv still on, dishes piled high in the sink, the weight of the world on my shoulders... nothing a walk on the beach won't cure.

"Starlight" - transparent shellac-based ink on gessoed canvas

IF: Sail

My ship has sailed...

IF: Enough

A girl can never have enough ... retail therapy!

IF: Fog

This is from a new series that I am working on for a solo show coming up in January 2009 at Muse Coffee on Queen Anne in Seattle. The whole series (as I see it right now) is going to be shades of grey with just a bit of red.

The series reminds me a lot of FOG - you never know what's really out there, it could be good, it could be bad, and it could be great. The point is it's out there, no matter what it is.

IF: Homage

...in the Museum of Noses...

Homage to a master - I started a "series" of homages to masters - you can find them all at http://www.artbynorm.com/ in the gallery under masters. This is by far my favorite - and so are Magritte and Dali...

IF: Leap

I read this quote once, in Honey From Stone by Chet Raymo [wonderful book]: "Put on you jumping shoes which are intellect and love."

Ok, so you are saying to yourself, but a jump is not a leap - and here are my arguements to the contrary:

a) in my handy Collins English Gem Dictionary , ©1960, the defintion of leap is "spring, jump;"

b) it's hard to leap when you are always painted with your legs stiffly together.

'nough said. Happy Leap Day!

IF: Tales and Legends

So what if Little Red Riding Hood & the Wolf were one in the same?

IF: Stitch

And he wore not a STITCH - or did he?

IF: somewhere in the world...

as the sun is just coming up from the horizon, there is a very small egg ready to hatch - and a little boy named Norm is born...