elisabethlangley: No painting today. Had to make an unplanned vet visit with the budgies instead. They had a respiratory illness and had to get shots of antibiotics 😳 Good news though- I can tell they're already feeling better because they're back to being noisy!
elisabethlangley: Julia Child, the woman responsible for bringing the joy of French cooking to the American table. Born and raised in California, she did not start cooking till after she married and moved to France, where she'd fallen in love with the food. She took classe
elisabethlangley: In-progress painting shot
elisabethlangley: Happy Sunday. This rain was a perfect day for painting. Hoping for a repeat tomorrow
elisabethlangley: Frida birthday cards are up in the shop! Grab yours at the link in my profile 💖
elisabethlangley: 33|100. Jane Goodall has studied chimpanzees in the wild for over 50 years and is a champion for animal welfare and conservation. She's the only human ever to have been accepted into a troop of chimpanzees and is the world's foremost expert on their soci
elisabethlangley: Progress was made before the light went and I started packaging the new cards and prints that came in today (catch them on my story). Unfortunately tomorrow night's event at @casitatres got rained out but they'll make their debut on my website soon. Stay
elisabethlangley: Yesterday called for an internet break but I'm back at it today. I bet you know who this one is!
elisabethlangley: 30|100. Dorothy Draper, decorator and trailblazer in business. She used her privileged background to build an exclusive interior design firm at a time when women didn't have careers and when the interiors profession didn't really exist. She began decorati
elisabethlangley: This is everything to me 😍😍
elisabethlangley: Sad to stop so close to the finish but the children had to be fed 😝 So, back at it tomorrow.
elisabethlangley: Getting going on a new one ✨
elisabethlangley: Who's next? Getting started on the next batch of ladies. Is there someone you think I should paint? Let me know in the comments!
elisabethlangley: 25|100 Shirin Neshat, Iranian artist whose work explores themes of femininity as it relates to culture and gender roles. Her earliest photographic works examined women's place in relation to Islamic fundamentalism in her country of birth, specifically the
elisabethlangley: 24|100. Sunday funday and not much time spent painting means this one is still a #wip but she is nearly there! Hoping I can pick up the painting pace a little this week.
elisabethlangley: Late afternoon painting progress 💖
elisabethlangley: Late afternoon painting progress 💖
elisabethlangley: Happy Saturday, babes! Looking back to February today as our community marches for clean water at the border, an ongoing issue for those of us in the area. Wishing all the participants a great time & looking forward to seeing some footage of today's event
elisabethlangley: Morning vibes. ✨ Happy Thursday!
elisabethlangley: 22|100. Sometimes the paintings flow, and sometimes they don't but you finish them anyway. 😊 Misty Copeland, principal dancer with American Ballet Theater. She didn't discover ballet till she was 13 years old, when she took a class at her local Boys
elisabethlangley: 21|100. #wip that's making me miss painting in oils...
elisabethlangley: What I'm doing right now...
elisabethlangley: Oh hey Monday 🙌 Hope your day is beautiful. Spent the morning at the dentist with my son. He got laughing gas, which he said took him to outer space! 😆 Much more fun than when I was a kid, thank goodness.
elisabethlangley: 20|100. Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to run the Boston marathon. The race director attempted to prevent her running by physically attacking her, trying to rip off her race bib and force her out of the race, but she prevailed. She changed the game for
elisabethlangley: Making progress.
elisabethlangley: Sunday morning ✨ What are you up to on this fine day? I'll be painting, going to dance, and working around the house. 🎨💃🏡
elisabethlangley: 18|100. In honor of Earth Day: Rachel Carson, marine biologist, author and ecologist. Her most well-known book, Silent Spring, questioned the role of science and man in shaping the natural world and warned about the long-term dangers of pesticide use. She
elisabethlangley: 17|100. I missed a couple of days...and this one was hard to finish. Happy to move on to the next one, sorry Rosalind! This is Rosalind Franklin, British chemist and scientist. Rosalind knew by the age of 15 that she would be a scientist, and it was her X
elisabethlangley: Happy Friday!! Can't believe the weekend is here again already. May the stoke be with you, however you spend yours!
elisabethlangley: Finished just in the nick of time to photograph this one today! 14|100. Nellie Bly, journalist and inventor. Nellie Bly was the pen name of Elizabeth Jane Cochran, whose innovative work changed journalism. She got her start in the newspaper business after