Travel with JoY

I haven't updated my paintings in a while.  As I mentioned in an earlier post, they suffer from a bit too much inspiration in that the subjects, and approaches are all over the place, from palette knife to decorative borders; from a colorful tropical palette to a subdued tone on tone grey piece. Jazz in 4/4 Time, 36" x 36" acrylic, with collaged fabric from Artfabrik (Grenada) Reef Impressions, 12" x 12" acrylic Fall Edge, 6pm, 36" x 36" acrylic Rocks & Waves V, 12 x 12 acrylic Flotsam, 24" x 36" acrylic North of Gouyave, 12" x 24" acrylic Grenada Cottage, 12 x 12 acrylic Homage to Breadfruit, 12 x 12 acrylic Sailin II, 12 x 24 acrylic, a tone-on-tone palette knife piece.

I'm sitting up in bed in our little cottage in Trinidad, writing this post. One of the things I find so amazing is that there is no glass in the window behind me. A bat just flew in and flew out the french door at my side. I'm inside a mosquito net in a sleeveless gown, barefoot and very comfortable after a shower. It was a bit warm today, maybe up to 85 or so, but we rarely felt it since we are under the canopy of large trees and our deck is on the north side of the house. I painted out there today while Yata wrote a song in the study, a room with another glass-less window overlooking the plains and mountains to the north. This sort of lodging wouldn't be for everyone; in fact, Nick, our son, asked me how we kept the rats out. Actually, we have a resident guard cat Lulu and two dogs besides. There are too many dogs in our neighborhood, a common problem on many of our trips to less developed countries. But regardless of the bats, and such, we love being in such c...