What I Got

I'm looking around at this blog and I'm realizing you kinda got short-changed with the Picasa Web Album. Most of those pictures were repeats (which I knew, but I couldn't do anything about it because I couldn't find the stinkin' delete button), and now I'm finding that they were also repeated here on the blog in previous posts. Lame. Sorry about that. Well, I've got 4 new pictures for you today that I GARE-OWN-TEE you've never seen before. (Unless you were at my aunt's party last weekend or your nickname is LW).

"Eliza"- Daring Adventure Lies Before Us

"Ella" Private Collection

These are 2 of my latest "girls", and I'm really proud of them. They keep gettin' better and better, folks! (If I do say so myself.) I mean, I started off with some pretty "beginner"-looking paintings (you can see them in previous posts) and now I've got tons of layers going on and dimension...I'm really happy with where things are going. And I got like, the ultimate compliment last week: last Friday, Suzi Blu told me that my painting was the kind of work that art galleries are looking for. What?! Suzi Blu? Art Galleries?! I had to slow down and breathe for a little while....take it all in. Now it's been a week and I'm here in my studio working on my next piece, thinking about how it fits in with the others, and in the back of my mind thinking I might finally get the chance to write my Artist's Statement!

"Stella"- Stage Fright

"Alexa"- Courage

Pics

I finally have some pics up, guys. It took me some time...I had to get the rest of Abby's pictures together, then I had to go through and weed out the ones you just wouldn't care about, then I had to put them all in an album and write captions. The captions are just pathetic, but you don't care about that, do you?

So without further ado, click on Album and then click on slideshow at the top left hand corner of the screen, and you will see a slideshow of the pics. Unfortunately, there are some other random pics that you have already seen at the beginning of the slideshow, but you can just fly through those by clicking on the right arrow until you're through them. There are about 30 or so pictures that you'll need to go through at the beginning before you get to the Singapore/India pictures.

Also, these pictures are not in any particular order (sorry!), so enjoy the randomness of it all.

I have been working on the videos and I'm about 1/3 of the way through. It's a really labor intensive process. What I may do is put up just 1 or 2 short videos for the blog and then do a long form video for family, because I can tell already that this thing is going to go a little long. :)

If you're lazy and you don't want to go to the website to look at the pictures with their beautiful high-resolution and larger picture size, you can just look at them below in the little slideshow I've created down there.

Either way, enjoy! TTFN.

Patience, My Dears

I told you it would take me some time. We made it home safely, which I'm sure is your main concern. ;) The last few days were kinda bo-ring being that I was relatively housebound due to my Delhi Belly. I did get a little visit in to Fabindia, which was amazing. That's GOT to be my favorite store in all of India. I bought 3 kurtas there, and to be honest, after trying everything on when I got home, they're the only 3 kurtas that fit me when I got home. Luckily I'm making plans to get back to the gym. I also lost about 4 lbs. in Singapore, so I'm pretty happy about that.

So I'm waiting to get Abby's pictures, which should be this weekend, and then I'll go through all the pictures and post some of the best ones -or- I might post a Picasa album of the best pictures of the trip. I'll also be editing the videos together so that you can see stuff like an Autorickshaw ride and a Textile factory, plus some interviews, if they make it in. :) You'll love it.

So be patient, keep checking back, and I'll be posting some great new stuff soon. Thanks for reading.

One more thing: I'm taping my Mother-in-law (Aai) cooking in my kitchen...making her traditional Indian meals. Is anyone interested in seeing these Indian recipes and cooking methods? If so, I might be able to edit these videos together and post some of them.