Circle Time 11"x12"x1" Acrylic on found vintage panel
This is another new painting, which I painted onto a vintage pressboard panel with that wonderful decorative Trompe-l'oeil "frame" around the edge.
I am wrapping up a nice, quiet weekend (which is usually how weekends are around these parts). I baked some bread, did a little painting, went to a Japanese bookstore + market with my friend Mandy, and basically behaved like hobbits with Josiah. We have kind of a hobbitt-y life (read: we are huge homebodies) but I really love it. I sometimes get the feeling that I'll have to wake up from this life, and go back to some sort of mysterious, imagined, dreadful life where I trudge to work at a bucket factory every day. Also in this other, bad, life I have no kitten, no partner-in-crime, no sewing, no painting, no baking, etc.
You get the picture.
The weird fear just makes me so grateful...I hope I don't ever have to wake up from my life.
Comments (25)
This IS your life and it's a wonderful one at that. It's not a dream it's REAL LIFE the way living should be. An inspiration for others. Oh, the reason I'm writing is to say I just love that new painting called Circle Time. (Emily we thank-u)
Elaine · January 20, 2008 at 02:53 PM
I think true happiness is when you know that you are happy at the same time that it is happening.
Alison Whittington · January 20, 2008 at 02:55 PM
I love this--it's so beautiful with the animals in their circle. I doubt you'll ever have to do anything else Emily--your work is so very beautiful. And belated congrats on the NY Times magazine shout-out.
moya · January 20, 2008 at 02:55 PM
Aww - I love this painting so much!! So very cute! BTW - last I heard, they were replacing workers at the bucket factory with robots...so guess you'll just need to keep living your awesome hobbity life! :)
jen · January 20, 2008 at 03:15 PM
Can I live your dream? I sort of am but not to the full extent yet.
stefanie · January 20, 2008 at 03:16 PM
i know what you mean. it can take a really long time to get used to a happy life. but once you do- it's so fun to live it!
ps: can't wait for my hello birds stationery- so excited!
julia · January 20, 2008 at 03:33 PM
It sounds like a wonderful life to me! Love the painting. :)
Karen · January 20, 2008 at 04:04 PM
Hello,
I love your paintings!
Gabriela
Gabriela Delworth · January 20, 2008 at 04:13 PM
lol, I know the feeling! It makes me so sad when somebody tells me how he hates his job and would like to pursuit his craft/art carreer, and after telling him «why don't you do it?» he gives me hundreds of excuses. Being an artist and successfull IS hard to achieve, but so worth it.
Valerie Parizeault · January 20, 2008 at 04:17 PM
Awww I like this painting style of yours too. The fox and the owl are my favorites. This one would look great next to your tree bed painting :)
www.projectblancoyd.typepad.com · January 20, 2008 at 04:51 PM
This is so sweet. Love the colours and it would be perfect for a children's book :)
Sweet Pea · January 20, 2008 at 05:00 PM
I adore this painting! Do you think you'll be making prints of it? Crossing my fingers, and toes, if it helps! ;)
Cassi · January 20, 2008 at 05:12 PM
That painting is beautiful!
And YAY for being homebodies!
bucketfactory=scary.
Ash · January 20, 2008 at 05:47 PM
I love all your paintings but I think this may be my favorite so far. Will you be offering this in a print version? Clarice
clarice · January 20, 2008 at 06:10 PM
This painting is so amazing. :The animals are as fantastic as the red hooded girl. I would love to know what you imagine she is reading to them . Emily you are a princess in a fairy tale that will go on forever and we are so lucky to share in your adventures.
Margaret Oomen · January 20, 2008 at 06:33 PM
Emily,
Miette & I are very lucky to live in this corner of the Shire with you.
I love all of the animals in this painting, especially the fox, but he's kind of orange like the neighborhood cat Miette hates, so I'm kind of alone on that one.
Josiah · January 20, 2008 at 06:45 PM
really lovely painting. Yeah I'm a homebody too, but I like it although I do have a "bucket" job in an office...ah well, it's not that bad and soon that will change so yay! Its great to hear that you appreciate your situation...you work hard so you deserve to be happy :) Yay Emily!
Ana · January 20, 2008 at 07:34 PM
I love this one. Really love it.
Jenn · January 20, 2008 at 07:46 PM
I love this one. Really love it.
Jenn · January 20, 2008 at 07:46 PM
gosh, i just LOVE everything you do! great find and great idea painting over the vintage canvas. and the lady in the ferns painting a few posts down is just FANTASTIC! someday when i figure out WHERE to put one of your pieces, i definately want to buy one. maybe one would look good in my living room. any apple-green in colour?
jen · January 20, 2008 at 08:13 PM
I absolutely adore this new painting!
Caroline · January 20, 2008 at 08:31 PM
No.. don't wake up.. Keep livin' the dream. Doing what you love everday means you've made it baby!!!
tiffany · January 20, 2008 at 09:11 PM
Your new paintings look wonderful.
Jenna · January 20, 2008 at 09:19 PM
Your new paintings look wonderful.
Jenna · January 20, 2008 at 09:20 PM
Bonjour Emily! Your red-dressed little reader girl among forest animal is delicious, so delicate and wonderful. I TOTALLY understand what you are saying about the hobbit life and imagining a different tougher life. I do that all the time...Like tonite, we went outside my husband, 11 year old and myself and stood still undere the almost full-moon in knee-high snow and that moment was perfect, silent in the countryside. Then we thought how different this tranquility would be if peace was not present and war was hovering...When some moments get boring once in a while, I do like you, and imagine how they could be 100 times worst....What a bright philosoph you are. And a great painter too...
LuLu · January 20, 2008 at 10:30 PM