COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN

I still haven't sorted out the email submission form on my new site and still cannot receive requests for information or that life-changing commission that's out there, just waiting to find me. Please contact me through my email, suzanne@suzanneberry.com, until I get this problem solved. Thank you for your patience.

BUG 10

20x20"
oil on linen
$180

I'm running out of clever bug references. Or depending upon your point of view, perhaps I never had any.

These 20x20's are the perfect surface for these puppies...er critters. Being a victim of the literal, it never occured to search out a less smooth linen surface, but happily, the larger linen stretched I ordered is just perfect.

This particular creepy crawler was painted and posted in the not to distant past as Bug 4 on 10x10", but with the arrival of the larger canvases, the incredible colors on his candy coated outer shell begged for a second visit.

Himself is home today and was rather rude to me when I questioned the wisdom of my subject matter for the three-hundredth time. It basically boiled down to "just keep painting."

ROSCOE

12x12"
oil on canvas
sold

Spent the day planning new work and had a great time doing it. However, I keep putting off moving back downstairs! For some reason, up here in the bedroom, I'm focused and just seem to go from one project to the next. Downstairs, while I do work, there's seems to be a lot of heavy sighing and looking longingly out the front window, for what I haven't a clue. Maybe Monday.

This is Roscoe, a self-promotion piece for the pet boutique in Virgina.

THANK YOU!

Well, I think I'm figuring this out. First a very huge thank you to incredible artists Olga Wagner and Arti for nominating me for this award. And another thank you to Gwen Bell for explaining the finer points of the process.

I am thrilled and honored and thank you both for this recognition. I appreciate your interest in my work more than you'll ever know. Please be sure to stop by and see their incredible work: Olga at catclawsstudio.blogspot.com/, Arti at artianim.blogspot.com/, and Gwen at gwenbellsdailypainting.blogspot.com/. Again, thank you so very much.

Now, I am to list 7 things I love and then pass the award along to another 7 passionate painters. Here goes:

1. My best friend for life, partner in crime, fellow artist, fellow musician and legal room mate for the last 15 years, the hubs.

2. Devlin the wonder dog.

3. Painting.

4. Jamming and creating music.

5. Any music Derek Trucks is involved in.

6. My PRS.

7. Peace.

I would like to pass this awards to the following great artists:

Jelaine Faunce
Tracey Clarke

Sheila Tajima

Clair Hartmann

Mark Adams
Halima Washington

Delilah Smith

If I've done this incorrectly or failed to mention someone or something I should have, please forgive me, I'm still looking for all those tiny little people doing all that running around inside my iMac.

ONE LAST LOOK (Bug 9)

20x20"
oil on linen
$180

Apparently these two have history. Either she's looking longingly at him as he walks away— completely blind to her pain—or he's looking longingly as she struts her program away from his abusive arse—completely blind to his pain. Not sure which and besides, who can tell with ants!

So, big step, for me anyway. A larger canvas doesn't really command a greater respect for the handling of negative space, it just feels that way, suz. Yesterday I was so jacked about the bug series, today I'm wonderin' if it works. Whatever, fun, a good time, enjoying ones' job, these are all the criteria by which a choice of subject(s) should be judged, no? Well see. I think I have one more of the trampoline series, so perhaps a change of subject might give me a better persective on the critters.

APOLOGIES ABOUND

First, I'd like to apologize to anyone submitting inquiries or comments through my website, suzanneberry.com, for my lack of response. There was a technical problem, something wasn't enabled by the doo-hicky and none of the mail reached my inbox. So please, will the person who emailed me with the life-changing commission try again tomorrow?

Secondly, I was nominated for the Passion for Painting award and haven't a clue what to do next. I'm looking into it and will hopefully do the right thing, so those kind enough to nominate me, please don't think me rude, I'm just confused. I so appreciate all of your comments and the nominations, I'm just not up to speed on this blogging thing yet. Thank you so very much, I am flattered, honored and thrilled!

Back with more bugs in a bit!

BUG 8

10x10"
oil on linen
sold

Apparently, I'm buggin! Who knows how long this will last or where it will take me, but I think that I might possibly have stumbled onto a direction! Oh my! All sorts of buggy images, strategically placed on stark white canvasses, are crawling about, in and out my little grey cells. They're fun, they're not difficult and it takes me away from feeling I need to fill up a canvas. Not that filling up a canvas isn't the way to go, just that I sometimes fill far too much, I think. Who knows? Who cares! I go to sleep dreaming of new ideas and wake up eager to begin painting. I'm riding this critter till it craps out.