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So a while back, Jackie posted a picture of a painting she did for a friend and I said "WOW Jackie! You're really talented!" Of course Jackie was her modest self and said something like, "I'm not a real artist, I just put holes in people." Well, I asked her simply to send me a larger version of the photo of the painting so that I might admire it more fully and guess what? In time she offered to paint a picture for me!!!

The painting arrived just after the memorial for my friend's mother and right before my uncle died. Some might see that as bad timing, but I think it's grand. Through the time when I was visiting my friend's mother in hospice I knew my painting was making it's way across the Atlantic and that buoyed my spirits. When I came home to find it here, I was reminded of the beauty of life in all of its sensual glory. Even as my uncle passed from this realm, I knew that he was leaving the pain he had suffered so acutely in this life behind. Pain he could never come to terms with this time around. And looking at Jackie's painting - well even Orchids have a cycle of living and dying. But she has portrayed this one bursting with fertile energy - at the very peak of life. Oh, and she happened to use my very favorite colors to look upon. No, I'd not be caught dead in yellow - it makes me look green. But I do so enjoy looking at it! And purple.... This is truly an air painting.

So now, I'll show you the unwrapping process. I was too anxious to take a photo of the box, but once I saw the NutzTattoo sticker on the bubble wrap I stopped and started to document the process. ;o)

OOH! Bubble Wrap!


Lovely Orchid


Jackie Sent Stickers and Stuff!!!


Jackie Traced Her Hands In The Card She Sent!


This is More True to the Colors in the Painting


Thank You Jackie!!!

Jackie tells me she was inspired by the Angraecum (Mystacidium) Sesquipedale Orchid. It is and epiphytic species native to Madagascar which can only be pollinated by a single species of moth with an unusually long proboscis. So, it clings to another living thing for life and will only allow one very well endowed moth, the hawk moth, to enter its inner sanctum. What a sexy flower!!!

I'll post another photo when I've got it framed and hung. I know where I want it to go, but I'll have to redo the entire room first!!! (I live in an old house and everything is a project so redoing a room for a painting is par for the course ;o)


I think Jackie is sort of a Punk Rock Georgia O'Keeffe - What do you think?




~~~Now wasn't that worth waiting for?~~~