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A New Painting Now Hangs From Clothespins Above My Art Table

Advaya, 16"x20", pencil, watercolors and pastel chalk. Susan Slocum Dyer 9/26/2026 © In my last post I wrote about feeling like Old Mother Hubbard and not having anything in my cupboard to share nor hanging from the clothespins above my art table. I noted this after three of my paintings were published, a three page spread, in a book printed by a small press in San Francisco.  Too, I pondered what I would paint going forward as I felt this three page spread had closed a long chapter of my work which focused on the  IƱupiat  statement, "The ocean is my garden."  Hence, there are delphiniums swaying under the sea as rockfish swim by in one of my published works and is used as the cover art for this blog. Also in my last post, I wrote about perhaps not painting fish anymore. That was noted too quickly as there are many types of fish swimming through bodies of water here in the Pacific Northwest. As you may have noted in the photo of my very recent work opening this...

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