Dangerous hobbies and naming the characters...

Along with working on pieces, I have a sketchbook or sorts to keep notes and ideas.  I am working on names for the people in the images:  Cecil the beekeeper, Irene with the Zebra and Ruby the lion tamer.  If I build characters perhaps the story will emerge.  I also plan to take a writing class at the CCCAC in March.  

other projects and studio views

January has begun and so has deep winter.  Snow days have allowed me some extra time to work on projects.

Circles and and Snow and some New Ladies

"The whole of Le Cirque de Reves if formed by a series of circles.  Perhaps it is a tribute to the origin of hte word "circus," deriving from the Greek kirkos meaning circle, or ring."--Friedrick Thiessen, 1892...from "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern.

I am reading this book at the suggestion of a friend....I am also seeing circles emerge in the recent artworks: