“A house is made up of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.” (-unknown)

Joe came home from Barnes and Noble the other day with the winter issue of Watercolor magazine. It featured an article on watercolor interiors, which is something I had mentioned to Joe that I wanted to spend some time practicing.

As it happens, the magazine highlights the current exhibit in New York at the Cooper Hewitt museum on 19^th Century watercolorists painting interiors.

My sweet friend Carol Gillott of Parisbreakfast fame tells me she went to see it the other day. I’m jealous!

I have always enjoyed interior paintings. I also enjoy both making up interiors, and I enjoy painting those that I see in front of me.

Even as a little kid, I enjoyed riding in the car at night and seeing inside peoples’ windows—not in a prurient way, but I liked seeing the pretty rooms. I still do.

Quelle dommage for heavy, closed drapes, eh?