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Life is grand!!! :D not so much time online since painting and painting and painting takes up most my time... www.facebook.com/Artist.L.Riso…
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:nod:Perserverance Pays off!

hummmmm... An oxymoron???

Well anyway... I love that I get smiles in return for what I love to do. Love of what I do paying my bills is also a plus. Have been painting murals and decorating a nursing/rehab facility close to home for about two years and have started on a second facility in Arlington an hour away, painting murals in a dining area of a nursing/rehab facility secure unit. The enclosed residents sit and watch me paint and say the sweetest things but thier smiles are worth more than gold. Am painting a lovely garden scene to allow viewers to escape to a beautifullly tranquil, even if still serene confined world of thier own. One day this week I enjoyed one of the greatest compliments of all when an employees actually and deliberately came to the room to sit and eat her lunch when she could have gone anywhere else in the building away from the formerly dismal dreer area.

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:nod:Perserverance Pays off!

Too busy for words... got the coolest ''gig'' of my life... decorating/uplifting a rehab/retirement center with my art. Living the dream. Painting one cabinet each for 60 rooms, plus decorating 4 sitting areas, 4 showers, with more requests added daily. So far _ have at least a year of painting/decorating to do - 8 to 16 hours a day!

Hope and memories are such a joy to paint.

Am painting murals, canvas', AND furniture... even some really fun upholstery! Did a trompe l oeil corner shelf on the wall that 'fooled' a patient/resident who came to see it and  then went to get her friend and with a sweet smile on her face, said '' look at that shelf they hung like the one you had in your house!'' No smile has ever felt as grand as those I am painting now. Not doing kitties though... western and vintage memorabelia which especially rocks!!! Will photograph and show as soon as possible!

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