Back in New Mexico, in winter.
I published another book.
This one is a capsule version of all the thousands of colorful journal pages I've made.
However - I forgot how much WORK it is to finish up a book!
Holy cow.
I loved making this one.
Even if it took FOREVER.
Even if it took FOREVER.
Hundreds of illustrated journal pages.
(I LOVE doing journal pages. They just make me feel good-!)
Watercolors, photos.
Ideas, quotes.
A few tips.
It's filled with color and creative experiments.
Essentially, it's a personal record of a way of capturing some of the wonderful details of life.
My watercolors all originated in my books, too.
I have over ten thousand illustrated journal pages scanned. So far.
But - you can read the rest of the story in the book itself.
It's on amazon.com.
JOURNAL ARTIST - Trisha Ray.
I got the final proof the day before leaving to return to France.
Yikes! Talk about last minute.
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| (When I have a paintbrush in my hands, anything goes. There are now colorful things all over the garden.) |
So - Stan and I spent the winter months in sunny New Mexico.
It wasn't really planned.
But: It was surprisingly dry and warm.
Hard to argue with that.
All the migrating birds escaping from the cold of the north spent the winter in our neighborhood.
-Couldn't really blame them.
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| Hundreds of sandhill cranes, geese, ducks - all sorts of birds. |
Erik and Kilian - an unexpected pleasure - were also in New Mexico this winter.
Stan was productive, too.
He recorded several (!) new CDs.
They're ALL available on his website - for free downloading:
www.stanhirsch.com
He recorded several (!) new CDs.
They're ALL available on his website - for free downloading:
www.stanhirsch.com
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| Stan's CDs and DVDs - the entire collection |
Me - I worked on this book.
It took a LOT of work.
It took a LOT of work.
And another one about my family history.
I spent pretty much every day happily tucked away in a sunny Studio.
But as usual, it wasn't all work.
Anywhere in life - there's ALWAYS time for - just a little celebration.
Right?
And now, we're outta New Mexico.
Bound for the boat in France.
But more about that soon.