WOW! What a weekend I had. Fact of the matter is I literally wore myself out. Crashed in bed for a late afternoon nap Sunday and then watched a couple of movies last night.
But look! I was up early today as usual and made an official Baha stamp. The Postcard challenge is a super fun project and I have added an extra challenge for myself (as I do sometimes). The prompt each week is new country so I am going to study a little art history along the way. Stay tuned for how that turns out.
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Weekends are so great!
Especially when playing ART.
Just working on my next postcard.
Hope you are having as much fun with your weekend as I am.
No laundry happening here.
No cooking either.
Just full on ART play!
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I'm starting out behind as this challenged started in January. However, after following this, I could not resist any longer.
Darcy at ART and SOLE is sponsoring a 52 week postcard challenge for the year 2012. This post tells all about it and this post has the links for Facebook and Flicker groups.
It has been a while since I participated in anything like this......Oh wait, I don't think I ever have. Anyway, I think it will be great fun. I'm going to try my best to play catch up for a couple of weeks.
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| My Bluebird |
Sure enough, yesterday was great fun.
The granddaughter hair job went well, but I think she wants it as light as my girl's in My Bluebird.
We will have another session in a couple of weeks for that.
I finished this one and am all set to paint another today.
I love rainy movie days. We're doing in again today.
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What fun I'm having. Just popping in to share WIP.
Granddaughter on her way over and ask me to dye her hair.
Sure, I guess so. You know I love color.
Also, she picks the best movies and we're gonna do that too.
While I'm painting.
Having a burst of inspiration.
Trying some new things.
For Sue B: blue sky and birdcage discussion yesterday got me going today. Thanks for that!
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Colors On My Path
Today
In the damp air,
I walked.
The white crow poison is in bloom.
And I hear them in the distance.
Caw. Caw.
The sky is gray.
But at my feet is a carpet of small bluets.
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| She Lived |
She Lived.
That was easy, I so enjoyed your comments and thoughts about naming your paintings. And I was so tempted to call this one "Crackers" after Kristin Dudish's comment that made me laugh. But I thought instead to just call it "She Lived".
OK, I have to confess to you that I am totally knocked over with Peter Metchev, a Bulgarian artist that I have just discovered. I can't stop looking at his creations. Click here for the google images. I just love the way he "couples" faces and I just had to try it. I haven't felt this way since discovering Gustav Klimt.
I just showed She Lived to dear husband and told him it was a self portrait of us. Of course, all I get is a puzzled raised eyebrow...much like the one I have painted on him. And I look just like that too. So, maybe I should just call it "Us".
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| A New Moment |
Do you give your paintings a name?
How do you decide what the name will be?
When do you have the name?
When the name comes to you, do you know it instantly?
Is is just a name?
Or does it have some special personal meaning?
Or you know the name but don't realize the "personal" meaning until later.
Do you know what I'm talking about?
Here is what happened. I finished this little painting, A New Moment, and of course always always, need to share. But wait, I don't have a name. It hasn't come to me yet. My working title was "She". I really never meant to use that as a name but needed a title for my print folder. That was all I came up with in that moment earlier this week.
So today, I'm getting anxious about not having a name. I have an old book that I cut words from and I call it my "she" book because it is full of the pronoun, she. I used it when I was making these, and these, and these. So, I thought maybe the "she" book would have a name for me. You know, the universe was sending me there. I randomly opened the book and a little piece of paper fell from the page. On one side there was a list; crackers, pecante, Tabasco, lemon juice. I turned the paper over and it said, "Live a new moment". There it was, a message waiting for me. Although, I think many of you will "get it", I don't even know how to relate to you how it is personal and yet relevant to this new little painting. It just is.
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Do you see that little canvas on the left? It was boring me to death! Made me want to puke! I needed to try something. F.U.N.K.Y.
But one of those little demons was sitting right there close to my ear and so I decided to print and give F.U.N.K.Y. a try.
The thing is I really did enjoy painting on this Epson paper. The idea was to lay down paint fast and furious. So I did and I'm not done yet but it will have to wait until tomorrows Morning Art.
And now the question is, what to do with that little boring canvas.
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