My father fought in the Korean War, and for the past three years I have been making quilts in his honor for Veterans. I am taking my Dad with me to a new fight regarding North Korea. Peace.

Nuclear War is not a fixable choice. The @POTUS sham summit with North Korea, the slap in the face of Veterans, the treasonous salute to a N.K. General - well, my father respected peace more than war.

Off and on throughout my art career I have drawn / painted pears. Like Vincent and his sunflowers, for me, pears reflect our condition in our environment. With my epilepsy and PTSD being worse right now due to strains inflicted by this administration, I'm going to focus on pears for a while. Oil pastels are almost a perfect medium if you have one subject you want to depict. I have a set of 60 Sennelier Oil pastels - consistent colors for a series of Pears. On 5 x 7 canvas panels.









Number 720 "Orange Pear" (c) laeom

I have been doing so many different projects, I have not had time to blog!. I am working on clay statues of our animals, using Roma Plastilina professional clay.  I have just finished one of my son's dog Bailey, and am finishing one of our cat Ceasar. Photos to follow.

I have also been working with fiber arts, generally knitting spools circles that become paintings. One project that has been waiting is my metalpoint drawings.  I have several, on marbledust and wood, that I have wanted to either tint with water color, paint in oil, or some other method of bringing the metal drawings into the realm of color.  I have decided to do this with oil pastel.  I use all types of oil pastels- Cray Pas, Gallery, Cray Pas Expressionist, Caran D'Ache, and Sennelier.  And, for Mother's Day, my son just bought me a wonderful box of Senneliers.!!!

This is the 50 color wood box set, from Dick Blick.  I can't wait til they get here! Sennelier makes the softest oil pastels, and they are luxurious! I generally use them for a top layer, and use other less expensive (harder) oil pastels for the underneath layers of color.  Below is "The Look" (c) laeom, oil pastel on marbledust and rabbitskin glue on wood, 6" x 6".  This is our cat Moochie aka Munchkin.

This was done mostly in Sennelier oil pastels. Oil pastel is a wonderful way to express! THANKS to my son, a wonderful Mother's Day gift!