bff's, new bf's, ACKW, and other bits of lettery joy ...lj's

here's a new painting ... so that we can call it an art blog ... before i go off on an acronymical tangent .....

then, just a brief review of yesterday ... ten pears ... which one is you ... if you haven't played yet you should ... go to yesterday's blog post ... the comments thus far are quite clever .... you go be clever too ...

and today ... even though i have friday art to blog and saturday art to blog ... i am still recapping my week at kanuga .... ACKW (art camp kanuga week) ....

here's a new pic of me in the percival studio .... note my feet! ... you can read about them a few posts back as well ....

so ... allison , my abf (artsiest best friend, cause i have a couple bff's, but none close to her in artsy fabulosity), and i went to ACKW on sunday ... we set up our studio ... we danced with glee ... we were giddy with the impending joy of ACKW ... monday morning we started painting at COD (crack of dawn) ... we painted before breakfast ... how crazy is that ....i have never ever been a COD painter, but it was kind of liberating ... it felt like we were going to make the most of every minute .... MM (minute mindfulness... ) became a theme of the week) .... we painted all day .. on the way back from lunch we took the long way round the lake to get in a little exercise before a full afternoon of more painting ....

then, monday night, with our MM frame of mind, we decided to skip the evening entertainment and just paint into the night ... paint, paint, paint: that's what ACKW is meant to be, right ... but in our MM frame of mind, we made a mistake .... we should have gone to the monday evening program ... an artist who we had never heard of, joan fullerton (the artist formerly known as joan ... i'll explain that in a sec) was doing the demo.. after the demo, one hundred and thirty four people asked allison, my ABF, and i, if we had seen the demo ... what? no? why not? you would have LOVED her ... she's hysterical and talented and hysterical and funny and hysterical and interesting and hysterical .... well, we'd missed the chance to jump on the we love joan BW (band wagon) we'd missed that BW all together ... who is this mysterious joan that everyone thought that ABF and i would especially love because she reminded them of US in our giddiness (that US was just us ... i capitalized it for emphasis not acronymness) ....

tuesday morning, we went looking for the AWSHMA (artist we should have met already) ... joan, where are you? come to find out, her studio was directly across the grove from our percival house ... from our front door (which was always open except for the hour or two of COD chilliness) we could peer into her front door of her little studio house ... oh joy, we found joan! mid morning, for a painting break, ABF and i tromped the 20 yards over (30 yards? 50 yards? my estimation skills are weak) over to her house and said hello ... and explained that everyone said we would LOVE her ... and that we were so sorry to have missed her show/demo the night before .... we chatted ... we invited her over to our percival studio ... we showed her around .... and then we fought over who got to have her as the NBF (new best friend) ... allison doesn't really read my blog, so i hereby declare myself the winner ... joan is MNBF, not hers ... and MNBF (my new best friend) now even answers her emails with YNBF ....

here is a pic of a group of us in percival ... joan, MNBF, is second from the left ... looking quite serious ... though i never saw that serious face the whole ACKW ...

MNBF became a frequent visitor in our percival ... she spied on mr. grant for us, she came and ate our mints, she discussed the notion of cute chris hanging up a zip line between our studios, she walked to lunch with us, she talked to us about our work, she marveled that we could put so much stuff in our car and get it all to ACKW .... all in all, she was a marvelous, giggly friend ....

here is a picture of joan, MNBF, talking to other percival visitors while i was painting ... clearly she is amusing him!

so .... tomorrow, maybe i can tell you the story of brown, if you can stand another day of ACKW blogging .... or i can show you a few more paintings i did that week ... or maybe i'll just show you ALL of the paintings i did so that we can move onto the painting that i did yesterday ...

how many days in a row of blogging have i done? a lot i think ! not bad for me, huh? how many days in a row have you read? come back tomorrow ...