Month: May 2021

Evening by the River

I can’t believe that in my pandemic year of taking two daily walks – mostly down by the Potomac River in Piscataway Park – I only now have realized that it can be a lot more dramatic if you go late. Maybe the fact that that park closes at dusk has something to do with that. But if you park outside the gate, you will not get locked in. I took a great photo in the evening hour that I thought would make a good painting so I did it. This is the first time I looked at my notes since the cloud painting workshop I took from Sara Linda Poly just before the pandemic,  so I referred back to them and tried to do something like we learned in the class.

My niece informs me that “Golden Hour” is a thing, and it is now a fad to do selfies in Golden Hour too!

Lona

New Book Illustrated by Lona

It’s here – A book I illustrated is published!!! Once before, I illustrated a book and it turned out to be a lot of work so I said to myself that I wouldn’t do that again unless I wrote my own book. However, I started putting some of my pandemic journaling pages on Facebook and Labar Laskie saw them and became convinced that I was the person to illustrate her remarkable story. She succeeded in persuading me and, friends, I have to admit that this is just the sort of book I would have written if I had a life-threatening disease, and if I wasn’t wary of heights, and if I could sing, and if I had lost my mother at a young age to breast cancer, and if I was a better ice skater…many more ‘ifs’ but, yes, it’s all here, along with over a hundred full-color illustrations. Some of the pictures were challenging for me but that made the project fun – as is the book itself. Here’s the link to the book’s page: https://henschelhausbooks.com/product/above-the-din/

-Lona