Heading to the East Nashville Arts Fest

I've been looking forward to this for more than a month and the day is finally here!  For those unfamiliar, East Nashville is the eclectic and nouveau artsy, semi-bohemian part of Metro Nashville across the river from the rest of town. 


More well known is the East Nashville Tomato Art Fest, in its seventh year.  That one's in August, and yeah, I'm eagerly awaiting that one too.  Loadsa fun, all built around “The Tomato…A Uniter, Not A Divider- Bringing Together Fruits And Vegetables.” 

But for today, it's not about Tomatoes, but simply East Nashville. And as this is the first ever of this particular festival, I'll reserve judgement til we've been there.  You'll hear more later, I'm sure.

Rainy Weekend Painting

Despite the miserable weather, this was a great weekend, filled with painting pleasure.  I think I had a solid eight hours of painting time yesterday.  The downside is, I need to block in some downtime for "visual rest."  I was hoping to work on my website (moesse.com) and just had to leave it unfinished as my eyes became so darn unfocused.  Leave it to me to come up with a condition that is typically a childhood thing!  Did I ever tell ya I had sleeping sickness as a child?  Yeah, when they quote that one in a million stat, believe me, they're talking about me.  Except for becoming a lottery winner, unfortunately.

Happy Birthday BFF!

I've spoken of my best friend, Bindy, several times I know.  Today's her birthday.  We've been best friends since the age of four!  Very different people, but we fit well together.  And we've a shared history that most siblings don't have.  I'm blessed to have a friend like her and hope today is great for her.  I painted the above and three other "season" paintings for her while she was here.  They're tiny 5" x 5" square ones.  She likes them! 

Another inverted blossom image

As I said in an earlier post, I've used photoshop to "game" some of the images I paint.  I have an image in mind, lay it out as a photoshop pic, change the color channels and run it through filters to see what comes out. 

So why not bright orange and red dogwood blossoms against a deep brown sky?