Obfuscate Incompetence with a Scumble

Cute Shoes, eh?

And to make them even MORE enticing, here's a deal that Neiman Marcus is adding to the mix:



So, the shoes are $645 (choke) BUT I get a free ballpoint pan and a little note pad with Manolo's name on it. Why hell, for a deal like that I don't even care if they fit...

This morning my Robert Genn newsletter arrived and he answers a question about 'saving' a watercolor that has gone too far. He says that's a tough one, but goes on to answer about opaque medium and that's where I put my stuff- substitute 'glueing' or 'sewing' or 'fusing' for 'painting':

In opaque media--oil, acrylic, etc.--you have far more repair
techniques available, including resurrection by total
repainting. For those who would make a silk purse out of a
sow's ear, here are a few things to think about:
Unify by glazing a mother colour
Obfuscate incompetence with a scumble (my personal favorite! S.)
Strengthen elements by cutting down detail
Eliminate one colour--especially a primary
Look to subtract material more than to add
Improve compositions by using the classic rules
Shoot up the borinary by busting the rules
Return to reference for better understanding
Eliminate reference and get into your mind
Rededicate yourself to confidence and audacity

While you may often recognize the need to simplify, at other
times the addition of further complication can help. (YEAAAA! S.) Sometimes
we err on the side of plainness and "unfulfilled space."
Judiciously putting more into the painting can be useful--a
more complex sky, a metaphoric element, that sort of thing. In
either case, change and improvisation are the lifeblood of art.
When you continually ask the question, "What can be?" it's
amazing what you can make from what you already have. You can
save practically anything from going to the dumpster--provided
you are willing to turn a barn into a duck.

Off to Ogunquit in a little while for the last lobster of the season, sort of a rite of passage more than that I like it to eat. We are staying a couple of nights because there is some concert we are going to- TY arranged it all with some of his old friends so I am merely riding shotgun and keeping my mouth closed . I don't even know who is in the concert I am so focused on good food! Poor Molly is going to the Dog Hotel but she will be on the pet-cam so we can check on her, hope she doesn't do the hunger strike thing again. We come back Sunday, just in time to go to 'Hollywoodland'. Hope there is food involved in that scheme too.