Howdy- sitting here waiting for the cab for the airport, not exactl;y an art-related activity. But yesterday I slogged my way in the snow and wind to the Fuller to drop off Bumroll. I was feeling proud that I even did it but was in the line behind a woman that had just driven up from Maryland for her drop-off. She was asking where she could get a cup of coffee so she could start back.
I slunk back to Newton with my head down.
Sure wish I could be there for the opening- I am dying to see the rest of the stuff in the show- mione is so small and flat and plain but hell, it looks good in my hall! No competition!
Called Nate about 12 times to come get this potato gun her left at Christmas- I was afraid he had someone special that really needed it, but found out it's for Mandy and Jamie so it will sit here until he either breaks in to get it or I get back from Florida.
I am missing Molly big time, first job is to get some kind of plexi for the iron gate soi she can't wiggle out. For a dog that LOOKS wide, she sure can compact hwerself and slither throughj small openings! Guess it's all hair. I hoipe Ralph brings her to the airport to pick me up...
OK, gotta go stash the garbage and shut the lights- cab will be here soon. Maybe next time there will be something more artistically interesting going on in my life than wrapping packages and printing plane itineries. MAYBE I will be reporting on my new G5, lettuce prey...
Over and out.
December 22, 2004
Merry Christmas
December 22, 2004
Scavenge Terminus Sepia Duty
MoMA Design Store
So, lat week at MoMA in the design shop I found an incredible necklace made of rubberbands for a mere $150. So I took my $10 Staples rebate and bought my own lifetime supply of bands and made a few of my own. Granted they don't have the professional polish that the fancy one did, but I almost like these better. Now I have rubberband necklaces to wear with just about anything. The crit group all want one, so I have a few more to make to cover that request. Hmmm, might never get done.
December 21, 2004
Frontier Benedict Strain Peddle Canterelle
Rasterbator
So, someone sent me this site a while ago and I sat on it awhile until remembering that I didn't have anything for TY for Christmas from the non-clothing category. So I downloaded a teensy picture to the Rasterbator and within minutes my printer was humming away for 30 pages. Then you have to assemble the pages which is a major pain. Also, it used my whole tank of black ink but I love the results: Ralph in 1970!
It looks fabulous- the dots are the size of my thumb and this is only about 1/4 as big as I could have done. I just have it taped to an oil painting in the den- he nearly fell over when he walked in last night. Very cool.
December 19, 2004
Gigawatt Awhile Transference Corrugate Biggs
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December 19, 2004
Sepia Duty Onion
Depressing article in the Times this morning about how all blogs are about sex.
Just back from another scintilating trip to Buffalo, this time accompanied by TY and Molly. Actually, it was good because it gave me someone to talk to, someone to answer me, and listen! My dad was pretty lucid this time, but physically even worse than last time. next time I hav ebeen instructed to FLY and rent a GOOD CAR and stay in a NICER PLACE. OK. I will. So much for the Mildew Motel, which is the only place around that lets me take the dog. But frankly, I am not all that comfortable walking her for her emergency trots at 4 AM. The parking lot is isolated, not well lit, and I seem to always encounter someone at that time. Scarey. No sex.
OK, I am on the home stretch getting ready to go to FL next week. Oh yeah, first there is that little thing called Christmas to deal with, but I have almost everything accumulated and ready to wrap. Also am sending a few boxes down to FL so my little suitcase can be full of my vast electronic collection and it's accompanying cords and docks and such. Trouble is I get so much expensive stuff packed away that I don't dare check the bag, instead carry it on and go through the severe frisk at the airport. God, I don't even own a laptop and can barely carry this stuff! Camera, iPod, Palm, CDs for the computer, phone and charger- geesh. Maybe if I weren't a closet GEEK... with designer lable clothing, naturally. Still no sex.
At MoMA last week I found an amazing rubber band necklace and studied it to clone my own. I got a $10 rebate from Staples and went to buy rubber bands of all colors and already have beads and nylon wire. So away I went. Do you have ANY idea how many rubber bands that $10 buys??? Took me two days to sort the rubberbands by size and color, another day to make one but I just cut and tied knots in different colored bands. Wore it to crit group last week and all of them wanted one AS A PRESENT! Little do they know I have already spent three days and have nothing to show- I just can't get the knots right to hold it in position. makes the $150 price of the original seem reasonable! So the crit group is not getting them as presents, and still there is no sex.
Finally got an appointment with David, my photographer last week, with Sylvia, and got all the prints and paiintings shot so now they can get stored somewhere. Maybe I will cut them out of the stretchers and sew them all together...without any sex.
Also I have started downloading mouse pictures for the Blind Man's Bluff piece I have waking me up in the night. Today I got all the rules for the game onto my desktop, second piece of the puzzle in place. I am featureing a redwork dresser scarf, very crude and faded to pink, for the center, then the mouses all around with the direrctions for the game. The 'bluff' is my pending glaucome. I am on twice a year check-ups now, and seem to be holding it at bay for now. The other scare is that Jamie, my SIL had a corneal transplant last week. Hopefully all is well there but he is so young to be having such serious vision problems. Well, enopugh of this white cane talk... too old for sex.
Gotta get to Whole Foods and see what I can manipulate into dinner tonight. Pictures? Nah, none today, live with it, or go have your own sex and write about it in your own blog..
December 08, 2004
Matisse Capstan Capitoline
OK, only a few more.
The first two are on masonite. The blue one has plastic needlepoint canvas attached on top of some of my paste papers and I like the transluscency of it. The next one is the corn block overprinted with text added.
The third one started with a tiny piece of redwork that had been picked out of a quilt, thanks eBay. It remionded me of the cowboy print we have that in turn remionded me of Rattlesnake Pete, my grandfather.
And finally the pumpkin- about as literal as one can get but the color is lush and I loved building it all up. OK- that's it. I'll have a few more before I finish painting all together, but it's been fun to branch out with so much freedom in the class.
December 08, 2004
Tallyho Dally Blaspheme
This time I will upload all the 24" square paintings. I suppose keeping them together by size makes as much sense as anything.
Woooo- talk about different styles! The top one is a concert, the middle one is made by filling little divisions in a green plastic garden fence with thickened paint, and finally the one with the trouser pocket Sylvia gave me. I see marbles falling out of the pocket and used a digital print of a coleus leaf for the big red ones. The ribbony things are actually selvedge from Micky Lawlers silk that she sent me a few years back.
December 08, 2004
Cinch Iconic Areawide
Well, I got the images and descriptions upside down in the last post- here goes three more and I will try to keep them in order
First I will include the fenced in cornstalks- this is a print on pattern paper with drawing added on the surface, and one of the first linoleum blocks I did. I printed this block on lots of stuff, including the dyptich below.
Next is a Chinese inspired little thngy. I added a few strips of silk selvedge on top of the paint- I used the same block as a background printed in a pale blue. This is, BTW, the block that is glued to the Loxahatchee River piece below.
The last one is from the beach house in Hull looking out over the water back to the city in a thunderstorm. I think it was the Fourth of July but maybe not. All paint and a bit of garden fence and it's been over printed with a rubber block.
All of these are 12" square and full of paint.
December 08, 2004
Brothers Acoustic Lantern
I have been completing paintings every day or so, been working on them throughout the classes and finishe one here and one there. For the next few entries I will load two or three images so we don't crash the system First is the latest, finished today =and remaining nameless so far. Actually I have put more gold dots on it already since I took the photo about 2 hours ago.
Next is the one of the Loxahatchee river trip. It has a rubber printing block adheared to it's surface all cut with a leaf pattern that I took from a photo of my bedroom round window and cut for another print. Seems like all these paintings have similar things as I work on so many at once.
And, what the hell, I will throw in a third that I made from the Molly print (see below), but cut up.
December 08, 2004
Soda Run Riverfront
My god- I can't believe how bad I have been at this lately! I am so taken up with this painting class- can barely find time to work on anything besides the painting and just muddling through life these days. Miss Molly of course takes up some space too- see the picture of my Koigu shawl that she stole in an unguarded moment!
Thanksgiving came and went, just the five of us so there weren't any fist fights or food throwing. I gave Mandy and Jamie the half of the turkey that was left- the half that his family would have gotten if they had shown up! I am well into Christmas shopping now, some done but still stuff to get- tomorrow that has to be done.
I am almost finished with the painting class, in fact Monday is the last one. After that I can clean the studio and get rready to go to Florida. Painting is so immediatly gratifying! I have decided that I will be using more paint in my collages, and more fabric too. The things I like best that I have done incorporate both. For some reason I can't upload pictures tonight so I'll try again later- I have many to get up here.
Spenmt the weekend in NYC with Lisa and hit three museums and a whole lot of shops. I had a good time but my legs are still teitching from all the walking we did. I was hoping to clean up a few more presents but the stores were crowded and the busses were all standing only- I was pretty glad to leave. I put the museum links up, or will when this site is behaving better.
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