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Catch the Wind was an interesting project.  I had just begun experimenting with painting with a credit card and I knew I wanted to use a blue/orange color scheme.  As I started making marks on the paper, I realized that it had a nautical "feel".  I was especially intrigued by the feeling of heavy waves that the bottom portion of the painting seemed to evoke.  With this concept in mind, I pictured sailboats in a neck and neck race to the finish line, if they could only "catch that big gust of wind".  It was great fun to see if I could suggest this feeling without actually producing realistic looking sailboats.  Oh, and painting with a credit card is even more  fun than buying something with it.

Catch the Wind

Jim As Clown

Breaking Boundaries
This is my very first "painting" done on an iPad.  It combines a  photo I took of my husband Jim with a drawing program.  The "medium" was soft pastel, and although not as precise as my real pastel work, it is remarkable what electronic media can accomplish.  I suspect that this is only the beginning of combinations and iterations that will be possible as I explore melding the old methods with the new.