So my paintings didn't win any ribbons at the fair this year (booo!) but they were finalists of a sort. Since it was a juried show, the judges picked what paintings would be displayed in the gallery and which ones wouldn't. Two of my three paintings (the cat face and the big purple dahlia) were chosen to be in the main gallery. (WOO!) They didn't sell either but that's okay :)

My next artistic venture is tomorrow. Back in April, I was chosen, along with fourteen other artists, to do a paint out at the Indianapolis zoo and gardens. The painting I did (a pink orchid) was framed by the zoo and put on display at the gardens for the summer. Now that summer's almost over, the paintings are sold at silent auction. As the artist, I get to go to the reception and bring a guest (Mom got dibs :P ) 
The thought of small talk is killing me already but other than that, I'm really excited to go to my first reception!

Now that I have no art deadlines to meet, I've just been playing around and it's SO NICE. Recent themes that have caught my attention are...cupcakes...for some odd reason. Both of these paintings are the same size as a playing card and I LOVED working on them....even though I couldn't eat them.

    
 

I've also started dabbling in writing again after a VERY long hiatus over the summer. There are two short story contests that I'd like to enter and both deadlines are in the first week of September. Even if I don't make the deadlines, the point is to get me writing and it's done that, thank goodness.

That's all the fun stuff. I'm *SUPPOSED* to be doing homework...but that's not happening. >:}