it's official .... i'm a mess ..... anyone who knows me usually thinks i have it together.....i LOOK like i have it going on ..... i'm generally the calm, cool, collected one ..... but .... here, in the semi anonymity of blogland (lots of you readers could NOT pick me out of a crowd ) here, i confess .... i am a pinhead ..... a dip .... a flitty mess .....
here's the problem .... so small a problem as problems go ....and yet ...so telling about my dippiness ......
i paint .... i love to paint .... i paint papers ...that's what i like best ..... picking interesting papers and painting them and cutting them and gluing them and making them into something ...... so i paint ..... a lot really ..... so, when my gallery girl, kristy at lola's, asks if i can get her 10 to 15 pieces of art for the folkart fest ... i say , sure, absolutely ...... and then the day arrives to think about it and i say , oh, i'll just pop by tomorrow and give them to you ..... i'll even write out an inventory list and prices ..... cause i am hip and together ..... and i do that .... make a list ..... and then ..... i walk around my house where i have the art displayed here and there ..... and i gather .... i gather the 11 pieces that i have picked out ..... and NONE..zero, not a single one ....is actually finished ...what? you are delivering 11 unfinished pieces of art tomorrow? i paint the edges of my paintings black ...nope...... none of these are black ...they are all lumpy bumpy drippy messy from the process ...... so, note to self....paint them all black .....oh ....and i journal on the back of my art ..... and some of them have some writing ...and some have lots ...and some have none ...and some have journalling about art that IS NO LONGER EVIDENT cause i painted over it ...like : i enjoyed creating theses sunflowers ....oops ...no sunflowers in sight ..... i hated them and painted over them ..... maybe i should write a titch about the actual art there ...oops ...note to self: check journalling on all 11 canvases ...... oh ...look...i haven't signed this one ....note to self ...sign all 11 canvases ...... oh ....hardware .....these need to be hung up .....note to self 11 pictures need 22 eyehooks and some wire ....hmmmm.... where is my wire cutter ....... oh ...and my stamp ....i have an e.beck.artist stamp for the back of each piece ...... nope, not stamped yet ...note to self: STAMP .....
so ...my question is .... why do i wait til the last minute to do these things ???? why can't i have it together enough to do it as i go .... one painting at a time instead of in this big bulk? because i am flitty and dippy ...... i believe procrastiantion is a conscious decision to do something later .... i'm not even doing that ..... i'm not deciding to do it later .....i just don't do it ...what's up with that?
so ..... the ONLY color i painted with today? ....black ....i edged 13 canvases ......13 you say? ....yes, i have two others that i am preparing to ship off to michigan ..... i'll tell ya about that some other time ..... it's a nice story ......
..and now ....now that i have confessed to being a GAGF who is seeking a HOHF to keep me in line and on track...do you still think i'm groovy enough to have a groovy art blog? or do i need a new motto?
ok ....that's my art report for the day ...black paint, eye hooks, and sharpies to journal with ..... i'll try to do better tomorrow .....
but wait ...there's more ....move over to the right margin of my blog ...scroll down ..... and let's just look for a moment at the number of blog entries i have written ...... tra la la ......
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