Deep water Koi, originally uploaded by shantmarie1.
This small painting is a postcard painting and is in response to all of you who are collecting my Koi paintings. The size is post card size and will fit nicely in a 4 by 6 opening of a typical 5 by 7 mat.
Enjoy, It won’t last. The actual painting is slighly lighter in value.
For those of you who are interested in Cinema:
My Review for “DEXTER”
This weekend I watched a preview of DEXTER the new crime drama on SHOWTIME. The first thing I will mention is the fact that a lot of this first show is narrated by the main character, Dexter. Its about a forensic’s investigator/serial killer. I will say this, Its different. I enjoy watching crime mysteries, but this is off the wall. First off, the guy works for the Miami police department, with all of the Geek CSI types but at night he’s out roaming the streets. He is a hero of sorts (if you can call a cold blooded killer, a hero) because he is only killing off people that are guilty of crimes but somehow got off. Rapists, murders and such, you get the idea. Since his dad was a detective, he learned all the tricks & knows how to commit a crime without leaving any evidence. Like many of these crime dramas, the lighting is dark and shadowy during the night shots and there is a aura of mystery to what he’s doing, while the day shots are of him at the police department being very perceptive and getting all the clues. Of course we know this is because he has the killer’s perspective so to speak. The characters are his sister who is a bit of a dingy chick who wants to work homicide but as a cop they have her working vice picking up Johns. The Lieutenant, a beautiful and talented actress who has the hots for Dexter, but Oh yeah, forgot to mention, Dexter isn’t into sex. A girlfriend, that just got out of a pretty abusive relationship and because of her past is also not interested in sex.
Dexter’s dad is used to help the viewer figure out what happened to Dexter to turn him into a killer and is brought into the scenes as memory. This show is filled with some other great charaters but they are the usual hard hitting detective types or the nerdy Asian CSIs and it is Miami, so there is more then the occasional Hispanic.
Here’s the Link if you want to watch it yourself. The password is
:sneak peek
http://www.sho.com/site/dexter/sneakpeek/home.do
If you do not like blood, I would not advise watching, it is for mature audiences and has bad language and some nudity.
I think it will be on free (preview weekend) on showtime October 6 thru 13th.
I give it 3+ out of 5 stars
