Just returned from eight days in Oklahoma. I was teaching at the PPOK PPA school there at St. Gregorys University. What an incredible wonderful experience. My students learned a lot and we all had a good time. Here is a painting I did at the park there and then painted in class with my students watching.

After I finished teaching there I visited ROUTE 66 in Sapulpa to see my friends Gary and Pam Box. To see some really terrific senior portraits, visit their website.
Next I am teaching in PPMA Convention next Tuesday in Mississippi. Then in JULY I am teaching in SAN DIEGO. If you would like to come to the San Diego Workshop please call us! Go to the Digital Painting Forum for more information.

Chef Allen had one of his famous Palate to Palette dinner events to pair Cuisine, Wine and Art all together. This dinner was to showcase Romero Britto. If that name sounds familiar, it should. Britto was recently profiled on Donald Trumps The Apprentice April 28, 2005.

I have been lucky to meet Romero a few years ago through my own friend and artist rep, Robyn. I have watched with excitement the growth of his incredible art as an internationally known artist. He is one of the warmest and most talented people around and I am lucky to know him and his family.

Allen and Judy Susser are old and dear friends of ours. We go waaaay back as they say and we have shared many happy events together. It was a thrill to see how beautiful the restaurant looked on Britto night and to share in the fabulous food and wines from Chateau Ste Michelle. The menu included baby conch and sweet corn cakes, soft shell crab with rock shrimp, filet mignon of tuna and incredible guava and almond baklava.
Our favorite wine was the Estancia, Meritage, 2001…a definite Highlight!!

As always…Chef Allens is a TEN M Dining Experience!! MMMMMMMMMM

Now that I own the awesome and easy to use TREO 650 I can look back and see that CELL HELL is frightening and scary. It was awful having an expensive phone that did not work and neither the cell company (Cingular) or AOL could help. Motorola put me in automated Phone Support Hell of it’s own. Could never even reach a live person.
At the Cingular store…strange enough, they didn’t even have a Motorola Mpx220 on display any more or for sale. Now WHAT does THAT MEAN? I wasn’t the only one complaining maybe?

To his credit…Lee at the Aventura store is GREAT. Thanks Lee for taking care of the exchange and getting the TREO 650 up and working immediately and helping me with a smile. The best one of the bunch. He even looks like he likes his job. Oh yes…and I had to wait ONE HOUR to get help because there were so many people there and after listening, most had complaints.
Bottom line…I miss AT&T, but I have to make peace with the new company now.
Thanks Michael for browbeating Cingular to do what they should have done a month ago and Thanks Ryan for helping me choose the right phone for me now.