Today I'm packing my bags. Tomorrow I leave for Santa Fe. I'll be house sitting for a friend who lives in the wonderful Land of Enchantment. Enchanting yes, so different from here in the Pacific Northwest. I love the adobe homes, the blue sky, the food, and yes, all the art galleries. This painting titled "Santa Nina" is an older piece from my saint series. It's interesting, but every time I am in Santa Fe I feel like painting big again. The open spaces and wild west feeling might have something to do with that.
The Arlington Downtown business Association commissioned me to create this painting for their collection and they plan on using it for a billboard that leads off of I-5 into Arlington. They want to attract visitors to their wonderful little town and the Stillaguamish Valley. It will be interesting to see how it looks enlarged like that and if anyone notices? I like to look at billboards so I suppose other people do too...
