Denise Deiloh Blogs

Reading. I absolutely, positively, love reading. I do it every chance I get. If I'm early to a meeting, I read. If I'm waiting for an appointment, I read. If my family is settling down to watch a movie for the evening, I read. Currently, my goal is 1... 

Celebration. Halloween is my favorite holiday of the year. It might be the dressing up or it might be the excuse to eat chocolate, gum drops, lollipops, lemon drops, sugar sugar sugar. This year I'm dressing up as a black widow. Unfortunately, it is ... 

Audience. One of the applications that I made sure to get for my webpage was google analytics. Interesting to see how often my page is being visited and from where in the world. Don't worry, I have no idea how to track down who exactly is visiting. T... 

Vicodin. I've been having neck pain off and on from a herniated disc last March. The initial sketch that I did for this month's painting came from my neck pain and medication. It morphed since then as I played with colors and techniques. Now I like t... 

Swing. My goals for the foreseeable future are eight small paintings and two large paintings per month. This gives me weekends off and a day a week to catch up. Thus far, work is moving along swimmingly. I finished up the Starcraft II work, finished ... 

Creating. For my sketch book, I like to use tombow brush pens. I adore the pens, not a good idea to do any finished work as they are not light fast. Frustration comes in when I’ve gotten a sketch to come out really nicely and I can’t manage to get my... 

Okay, took me a little longer than expected to get started. Extreme exhaustion from May activity and writer's block. The webpage is up, the blog is rolling. And I need to get back to painting. 

Webpage. The new site is finally available. Some futzing is needed but for the most part it is up and running. I will begin blogging twice a month starting June. Topics I'll likely be covering will be painting tips, learning experiences, women's issu... 

Accomplishments. The month of April drove me a little crazy trying to get 30 paintings done in 30 days. Not sure I'll ever go that intense again. I did get it done and decided to keep 15. Extremely useful in my new adventure with Mountain View A la C... 

Starting Tuesday, April 1st, I'm challenging myself to do 30 paintings in 30 days. These paintings will be 8"x10" acrylic works on bristol paper. In the next few weeks I'll also finally get my new web page launched and blogging will continue from the... 

A slight case of insomnia tonight. The good news is that I'm taking the waking hour to wrap up everything needed for the new web page. I'll double check in the morning after I've had a chance to sleep. For the moment, have all the photos and write-up... 

This seemed like a highly appropriate image for me today. I'm currently taking medication for a neck problem, one of the side effects is being more easily distracted. The bulge in my spine, C4C5, is likely a lifetime of hunching over desks, tables, a... 

Spent, what seems like, two full days sitting at the computer. A few months ago my clunker laptop let out the magic smoke and died. Fortunately, I had backups of everything. Now that I'm putting a new web page together and searching out new shops and... 

Last week, managed to pinch a nerve in my neck. Howling pain doesn't begin to describe it. Luckily, been able to calm my shoulder and neck enough to finish up a painting. My lady in blue is the third of four. Beginning to gather up bios, statement... 

In the first stages of redesigning my web page. This amounts to answering questions about how I want it to look, what I want it to contain, and doing a crash review on html. Ten years ago, I had a pretty basic web page that I put together to show pic... 

After much penny pinching and internal debate, I'm finally getting a new web page put together. Back a year ago, I tried blogging here but just did not like the layout. Maybe I was making excuses, regardless the new blog/art sight will be rolling out...