house rules

when my children get into squabbles, i try hard not to referee them ... i try to get them to opt out of them by saying "are you being nice?" ... 'who is being kind?' ... when generally neither arguer is being kind .... so now i've done a painting (no collage to it at all! horrors! what's up with that?) ... and when the kids aren't being kind, i just point .... the painting is about five days old ... and i've already pointed at it countless times as a reminder .... 

my little one said, did you write rule 2 to be funny? ... yes .... it's not that funny, she said ... 

everyone's a critic .... 

i did this painting on thursday with allison, along with some other pieces ... i have others to show you .. but will hopefully do that in the next day or so ... rather than give you a glut of art and explanation today .... 

did you have a happy weekend ... mine was rainy and slow paced ... perfection! 

tell me what you've been working on ... or what grand thing this week has in store for you ... 

yippee, hooray, and zippity bippity bop ....

my fairy godmother arrived today and made me paint ... 

or ... rather .... my pal al came over and we did paint ... and paint and paint and paint ... 

finally .... 

i'd gotten to where it was so long since i'd last painted that it was becoming momentous ... a giant OH MY GOODNESS .... can i still do it? 

i can ... i did ... and wasn't even momentous ...no grand moments or grand creations .... but i worked on five small canvases ... 12 inch squares ... and did two long thin ones .... and one el grande ... a three foot square .... 

here are some pics: 

that's my lovely dog ... standing in front of the largest canvas i worked on today ... somehow i had it in my head that i wanted to do a white piece ... i'm not sure what to do now that it's white ... when i'm being my normal me, i keep lots of notes and write in journals and scribble ideas on my table .... but ... i've not had my normal routine at all .... not for  8 or 9 months really ... so i had this grand white idea ... but the grand bit has flown from my head ... and i just remeber the white ... so ... i papered it in music and dictionary ... and then glazed it with some white and some titanium buff .... next, i think i'll do a buff or buttery stenciling on it to warm it up ... we'll see, huh? 

and here's a shot of my table .... that far half was where allison worked today .... the foreground is the smaller canvases i was working on .... all dictionary pages ... and then glazed and stenciled .... i'm planning on a house series ... or really, a home series ... or even homey, cozy, comfy .... we'll see ... it too is a vague notion .... but a bit of a plan .... 

and here's a close up of one of the 12 inchers ... not sure which photo is the truer coloring ... 

and here's one more canvas .... no collage papers ... just paint ... a dark yellow, a titch of orange, and then plastic rubbed over the top to give it some texture .... 

this one is ten by thirty ... and i think i have a plan for it in my kitchen ..... hanging it up high over a door ... if the foreground goes as planned .... i also did another long one like this in orange ... also to hang in my own house ... 

we'll see how that goes, huh? 

so ... i'm painting again ... it's tentative .. but ... it's started ... and i believe i'll be painting again tomorrow ... 

any requests ? 

... painting ... and the fine art of procrastination ....

so ... i'm supposed to be a painting girl .... 

and i've not been painting lately ... 

not for a long time really ....

but ... even though i've not been painting.... 

i think about what i could paint ... 

or should paint ... 

or might paint next .... 

like today .... 

cousins in town .... 

we had an outing .... 

and i thought about things i could paint ...

i could paint goats....

i could paint roosters ....
bucks.....
duck and goat, roommates .....

peacocks ... 

so ... just in case you were wondering ... 

i do THINK about painting .... 

what have you been thinking about?

a little project ....

i did a little back to school shopping with my kids today ....
... i bought some four by six note cards in nice colors ....
... and then i doodled on them.....
... and now they are all in an envelope ....
.... and i'm mailing them off to someone ....
....for a birthday surprise ... though i don't suppose she'll be very surprised ....