In brief:

I am a mother to a blended family with five kids, one of whom has notoriously described my personality as "once she gets started, she can't stop." He is not wrong

My three main loves in life are my family, my art, and my yoga practice. With our family, we cherish reading aloud, going on adventures (a good number of camping trips a year), movie nights, and supporting each other in our individual activities. In yoga, I love to arm balance, but am afraid of any inversion other than a basket headstand because I am afraid to fall; pincha mayurasana to baby crow, however, is a secret goal.

In art, I found my most technical talent to be in dry, portable medium: pen, pencil, lead. This of course is due to my lifestyle and the inability to dedicate several hours nonstop to painting, etc. This allows me to take my art anywhere, or sneak in a few minute here and there. Although I still will use them, acrylics are difficult for me due to their quick dry time, and my conversely slow and methodical tendencies to blend; ergo, oils are my preferred paint, should I ever have that time to spare. And watercolors? Fun, but I will admit that they, too, are difficult! Dabbling in multi-media allows me to have great respect for artists of all sorts.

As for content: I paint what I like. Bones, yes, always and forever. The raw nature, the structure and strangeness, a big piece of our defining features--they have the ability to be both surreal, and one of the most fundamental aspects of our individual existence. And they're just awesome to look at. 

Portraits, images with a magical display of light and shadow, the folds of fabric. Occasionally I will play with a thought or idea, a splash of abstract; but usually, I work from an image.

I am not one to do the same piece more than once, so once it's done, I wash my hands clean and move on.

Also, this picture is perhaps six years old--I have since grown some beautiful unicorn gray-silvery hair, had a long dreaded mohawk then chopped it all off, developed a "sad" wrinkle between my eyebrows, and got glasses that I wear a third of the time.