....so....i spent quite a bit of time in my studio today.....but have no finished piece to show for it...even though i have quite a few on the verge of being done, somehow, nothing was destined for completion today....... the problem is that i'm kind of flitty...scattered....my brain shoots off haphazard fireworks instead of normal sparks of intellect and effort...so i start something....like painting some paper blue to make little fishies....and then i do the wrong blue...but i like the blue i did but it needs a bit more...so i start off on this whole gorgeous blue paper painting thing on dictionary pages that i will use in some piece in my far distant future...so then i go back to these fish...and decide that i need more than just paper fish...oh....bottle caps...bottle cap fish...so i pull out five kabillion bottle caps and start sorting through them.....speak to me bottle caps....do i want all one sort..... do i want a huge variety... do i want a particular color pallette of bottle caps... do i want only caffeinated soda bottle caps.... oh... the questions that zip through the brain....... and then i remember i'm supposed to be painting paper.... and get more dictionary pages, but no, let's do something different..... novel..... um.... let's see, here's some robert ludlum, that'll work..... action thriller spy guy fish.. that'll work..... and i paint them....and then i think about the next layer...ah...lumieres, my love paints.......should i go with the blue...the green...or my good and faithful friend, pearl white? .....oh....let's try them all......the joy of experimentation......
and then i have a table full of papers drying and i decide to be strong and brave and true and glue my big fish down ...... and i did ... right when simultaneously our best pals invited us over to dinner and my whole family, a foursome, came home sweaty from golfing.......so.... everyone shower.... i'll just.... dither in my art room... and then we'll go to the impromptu italian feast .....and andy stays in the studio with me watching what i'm doing...questioning my e6000 technique.. will that glue really hold that ... what is that..... a fish...no, what's it made of...pottery.....you're doing pottery still? ...no, not for the summer.....i had this saved up...... what are those eyes? styrofoam? ... no, pottery.... really........are you sure that thing isnt' just gonna fall right off when you hang it up... are you sure?... yes..... really?.... really......i'm a professional artist, ya know.......i know my glue....so i did a bunch of stuff...worked on some yellow canvases...some big canvases....some small.......tried to get this whole fish thing done......but....no such luck......finsihed nothing....is that ok? i'm thinking i have some art time in my sunday afternoon plans.......so, tomorrows blog should be art rich.....we'll see......
and one more bit of happiness.......three sweetie pies visited me......they left this morning after a whirlwind trip....as they were preparing to go, sophie asked if she could take some pictures.. yes...... and ... with my camera, she took about 80 photos.......i think she's going to need some training if she wants to go into photography... about four of the 80 were ok....... this one, in particular, cracked me up.....sophie took this picture of my dog, dixie, studying a painting in my kitchen.... isn't that odd......i guess it is odd that i have a painting low enough to be at eye level to a five pound dog...... but i do...... this one is optimistic pigs can fly....maybe dixie is wishing for wings.......
tra la la...hope you are having an art filled weekend......or at least a happy one.......
ps....i went with turquoised ludlum papers with a coat of lumiere pearl on top.....and i chose bottle caps in the green blue purple family......no coke, no pepsi, no jolt, no tab, no orange fanta....but still dozens and dozens of caps to choose from.....
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