Shelley takes a picture

We wanted to tell you about our friend Shelley. Cameras are not her medium. Neither are they ours. That's why we put the picture up of Shelley with camera strap. She's the only one who knew the strap was in the picture.

Shelley is a sculptor and she's a gallery owner. She has a family and is also mother to many young Philadelphia artists. She's one of the reasons the Philadelphia art world is hopping these days. We don't know how she fits all these things into her life. But to us she always seems calm and energetic.

Drawing L&R 2

We do get out in the real world or at least Libby thinks Roberta does. That's Libby's pencil drawing of Roberta at the top. Roberta thinks that Libby is overwhelmed by her inbox. That's Roberta's ink drawing of Libby below.

Drawing Libby and Roberta

Even though we're in the world we're inside our own heads and we're inside our computers. The computer part wasn't true before artblog.

We "R" Us

We decided to paint pictures of ourselves, since we are in our world, too. In what amounts to the 16-year chat we've been having as collaborators, we know quite a bit about each other. That made it harder. Like the other paintings, these two are collaborations. We put ourselves in the studio. Roberta's picture is on the top and Libby's is on the bottom.