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Here's me in June at the Maple Ridge Art in the Park show. Saturday was glorious, sun (after so long in Vancouver we'd almost forgotten it!), beautiful temperature, and I stretched my paintings outside the tent for everyone to enjoy. Sunday, however, was a different story. After being lulled into complacency by Saturday's weather I setup everything as per the day before. About 11:30 it then proceeded to rain and everything had to go back under the tent--and quickly!! There it sat for the rest of the afternoon, which did brighten up about 3 pm but not enough to risk moving everything again!

Still, I sold 2 originals and could have sold 3--the middle painting on the right side was sold Saturday and on Sunday someone else came to buy it. Sorry she waited. That's happened to me a few times--people have liked something, then phoned the next day, and the painting they liked is gone. If I knew ahead of time I'd paint doubles!

I thought you'd like to see my newest painting, still in progress. I'm thinking of calling it "Be Still My Heart" as it's from a photo of my sister who was killed in a car accident in Nice, France at the age of 25. She was a gorgeous and talented girl & we all miss her dearly. And, she was very beautiful, in appearance and spirit.

If you have any other suggestions for a title I'd love to hear them!

The other news I have is that "Reaching For a Star", the silk mermaid, has been professionally scanned at My Art Channel and is available to be printed, any size, onto quality art paper or canvas. Contact me for quotes! It can be viewed here, or you can see some more of my paintings at my mini-website there, at www.elainewatts.myartchannel.com . There's the potential for yet another blog there but I think I'll stick with this one for a while! All the technology involved with websites and keeping things updated can be mind-boggling at times, but I'd better get used to it!