Today I'm inspired by the owl that I hear just outside my window at 5:15am. There is just something about the sound of an owl, you know?

 I am also inspired by the very loose paintings of Lisa Daria, whose work is shown above. You can see more of  her work on her blog http://lisadaria.blogspot.com/. What inspires me about her (and her painting style) is that she is not afraid of experimenting with her medium, her light sources, her subject matter, etc. And best of all, she's not afraid of putting the results out there for us to see- whether it works or not. By doing this, we all learn.

Okay, here we go. It's the first day of the first full week of summer break. It's Memorial Day. I think it's the perfect day to start this blog journey. This will be a place for me to record and share what inspires me from day to day, as I'm always amazed by the smallest things serving as huge inspiration. It could be anything from the way the light streams through the window onto my coffee cup, to a random still life arrangement, to the shape of a leaf or, like today, a visit from my favorite little Peanut :)