The fact that I’m writing about my 2023 calendar, My Cup Overflows”, is a bit of a Christmas miracle. After our summer move to Lynchburg and all that entailed from bad movers leaving all my Christmas decorations and winter clothes in the basement to living longer than planned in my husband’s sister’s lovely home. I didn’t think I had anything to really worth putting together for a calendar. My longtime friend and artist extraordinaire convinced me otherwise. We’ve been making calendars together since 2009 and I have to say, it was killing me to not do this tradition with her this year. I had already missed her birthday pumpkin carving party after we’ve been doing for 13 years and now this. Well, she wouldn’t hear of it and told me to send over what I worked on in my sketchbooks along the way. Sometimes it’s really good to have someone in your court reminding you of what you have and what you are when all you see is what you believe is missing or simply don’t have. So here it is friends, a year of color, fun exploration from my sketchbooks because I didn’t often have the time, space or energy to do much else but playing around with color colors in different mediums. The art in the calendar includes a variety of mediums, watercolor, gouache, markers and some ink.
