Enough of this unintentional hiatus from blog updates.

As of today, I’m 3 paintings lighter!  I delivered “Little Black Dress,” “Hoodie,” and “SF2008″ this morning to my favorite San Francisco Salon, G-Squared, in the SOMA neighborhood. The owner, Neil, has been keeping my hair *done* since I moved to San Francisco.  His newly remodeled salon is a cool, modern space where minimalist design is the backdrop for the stylists’ warm and inspired approach to working magic on hair.  I couldn’t be happier to have my paintings hanging there.

Next stop? SF Moto. Marc and I went by this afternoon to meet Arlene and see the brand new GoGo Gear. When we arrived, Arlene and Desiree were arranging an impressive display of all the gear. Even better, as the jackets went up, they came down again for customers to try and discover how incredibly flattering they are. In a couple of weeks, my Hologram jacket will arrive. I can’t wait!  And at the risk of getting ahead of myself, we got a glimpse of some of what’s coming for GoGo Gear in 2011:  a ruffled-trench in a sueded coppery fabric–fully armored gorgeousness.

And thanks to the St. Patrick’s Day Parade down Market St., 7th St. was completely closed to traffic for a few blocks today.  Marc seized the no traffic opportunity to get a shot (or two) down the center of 7th St., and I got this shot, which I think sums up our day quite nicely.

The excitement continues in SOMA tomorrow. We’re making our first foray into the darkroom! Our friends at Billibatt Productions took some fantastic photos–on film!–of us at our wedding in February at City Hall. (Yes, we got married!  On the fifth anniversary of our first date! I think this needs its own blog post, though.) Tomorrow, Marc and I will begin to learn how to make black and white prints. I can’t wait!

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Last Friday, I was L’s date to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s 75th Anniversary Party. It was fabulous. There is so much amazing art on display! This exhibit will be up through May 16, 2010.

The part of the evening I enjoyed the most was taking photos of ourselves and other guests interacting with the space and the art. L always has the best ideas–like this photo she took of me in the cut-out, above the party.

Last Sunday, I ran the Big Sur Half Marathon.  It was fabulous and gorgeous and my time was 10 minutes faster than the half marathon I ran this past February.  My improved time really surprised me.  I can only conclude that eating and drinking my way through Spain for 10 days when I should have been increasing my mileage was even smarter of me than I had suspected.

Last Saturday, before we headed off for Monterey, I touched-up the painting I gave my sister for her birthday in August.  It was damaged in transit, and I still don’t understand how the protective styrofoam corners ended up melting into the paint.  Anyway, I am pleased with the new and improved version.  I hope my sister will be, too.  And that safe little repair project made me really start thinking about the work I ultimately did today.

Here is the photo that inspired my work today.  It’s a piece from the Museo Taller del Moro in Toledo, Spain.

Here is my interpretation, in progress. I’ll post more photos when the paintings are finished.

Today’s painting soundtrack: La Oreja de Van Gogh, Compilation Jazz 2002 Edition Speciale Du Festival.

Last weekend, I turned another year older. Yay! for birthday celebrations; boo! for another year under the belt. (*sigh*) Family and friends helped distract me from the getting older part and I had a fantastic birthday.  I enjoyed several awesome birthday song renditions, including the musical stylings of dezervision live on my telephone while I opened a lovely and perfectly-fitted black jacket.  Marc took me to Aziza for dinner, which was fabulous. We had tried to go to a Moroccan restaurant while we were in Madrid, but because we just wandered by it and didn’t have a reservation, we were turned away. When we returned home (but before Michelin announced that it was awarding it a star), Marc made a surprise birthday dinner reservation at Aziza. The food was amazing, the staff was wonderful, and we were pleasantly surprised when they thanked us for our patience in being seated by presenting us with a drink from the bar and a dessert on the house. I’ve never been happier to wait 30 minutes for a reservation.

Birthday Week Celebrations continued when Marc gave me a laptop. I’m typing on it right now. But I’m sure you can see the the difference even without my telling you, right? Now that I’ve gone portable I may become a better more regular blogger. We’ll have to see.

The week continued as it usually does, and I had planned to get started on some new paintings on Friday when I was off work, but that didn’t happen.  Instead, I did a bunch of errands and finally took my scooter in for the BIG post-tumble repair.  While the darling was in the shop, I caught up with Little Dictators and went pumpkin shopping.  I found one pumpkin desperately in need of a face (carving!) and one to eat (oh, delicious pumpkin, how I love to cook and eat you). Friday night brought carving and pumpkin seed roasting.

Necessary Tools

Getting To Work

Hello, eyes!

Almost done.

Complete!

Boo!

Saturday night was filled with adorable trick-or-treaters, many compliments on our most impressively carved pumpkin to date, and an absolutely fabulous pumpkin risotto (merci beaucoup, Mme. Farigoule et Peter Mayle).

BOO!

It turns out I have a really hard time just lying around, guessing what’s going on behind the camera and not really being able to participate in the trouble-shooting process without asking A LOT of questions. And asking questions results in weird facial expressions. I also have a hard time not wrinkling my forehead when in bright sunlight. Awesome.

We decided that the best way to spend the rest of the afternoon was eating oysters and drinking wine. Delicious.

We worked with the concept that had turned out so well when my friend photographed me with some olives. This time, instead of olives, I piled on a bunch of necklaces.  It didn’t turn out looking nearly as tacky as I thought it would.  So that was interesting.  And it will come as no surprise to those of you who really know what you’re doing that lighting and resulting shadows were our biggest challenge. We had naked-bulb bedside table lamps lying, standing and swiveling to various locations on the floor. I was somewhere in the middle. We got some decent results, I think.

Learning as we go, (hopefully) moving towards improvement.

This weekend, Marc and I had time to try out the new lens and tripod I bought last weekend.  First lens outing was a hike on Purisima Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve on Sunday.  It was gorgeous, and I got some good shots.  The lens is a (zoomy!) Tamron 18-270mm AF VC, and I’m happier with these photos than the ones I took with the rented (also zoomy!) Nikon 18-200 AF-S VR a couple of months ago.

Here are a few photos from the hike.