EDM 157 - Towels

I love painting stripes and plaids...as long as I don't have to WEAR them. I also love woven fabric, especially homespun.

This is one of very few paintings I've done that has no ink lines. I don't know why I don't do more unlined pieces.

EDM 157 - Towels; 3x3" watercolor

The Basin and the Towel

More from the category, "Drawing in Church; Painting at Home." The sermon wasn't actually about this passage. I just wanted to draw some pottery and a towel to see if I could do it from my imagination.

Basin and Towel; Moleskine watercolor journal

EDM 156 - A Sandwich

If I were ever to open my own restaurant, it would be a vegetarian sandwich shop. All the sandwiches would be served on awesome, homemade bread. I would also serve simple homemade soups and, for dessert, I'd sell cookies, coffee cake, and lemon bars. The menu would be hand-drawn and fun. I'd serve my favorite sandwich and call it "Just-a-T. Sandwich"--a BLT minus the B and the L, with extra mayo and lots of salt. BUT, I'm not at all interested in running a restaurant. I would love to HAVE this restaurant nearby, though!

EDM 156 - A Sandwich; 3x3" watercolor

EDM 155 - Something with Steps

I grew up in a one-story house with no basement. I always thought it would be so cool to have a second floor and stairs. It was just a case of wanting what we didn't have. Well, I have stairs now! Our house has three floors and a basement. Here's how having a four-story house works: there is always a three-in-four chance that the item you need is on a floor other than the one you're standing on. The result of this phenomenon is that my house is my gym!

EDM 155 - Something with Stairs; 3x3" watercolor

EDM 154 - A Lemon

If life gives you winter, paint lemons...from memory. If I were serious about "Buy Fresh; Buy Local," I would never buy another lemon because I've never lived in citrus country. I can dream, though. Come to think of it, I would love to live in a lemon dream, with warm, sunny light driving away all memory of ever having been cold.

EDM 154 - A Lemon; 3x3" watercolor

EDM 153 - Something Wrapped in Plastic

I'm sure it was a fabulous day when chemists first discovered that they could cook up a synthetic, pliable, translucent, cheap, lightweight alternative to glass. But, as with all good things, moderation should govern us. We have been immoderate with plastic. It seems like the world will someday be wrapped in it. We were once enraptured. We're becoming en-wrapped-tured.

EDM 153 - Wrapped in Plastic; 3x3" watercolor

Hope at the Center

I've reached the center of my Moleskine art journal, and I decided to fill the spread with hope...literally.

HOPE; Moleskine watercolor jounral