30 Paintings in 30 days - 2017 check list Wed Dec 28 2016

 30 Paintings in 30 days

Wed, Dec 28,  2016

I'm getting prepped for Jan  2017.  I swear to god that each time I do 30 Paintings in 30 Days my check list just gets longer and longer. Something sure to be  missing. There always is.

Will I travel so much this year to paint? Don't know yet. Will I write stories about studio life as I go? Probably and perhaps stories  go with each painting because people love a little story and I like to write.
 Still mulling that last thing over. Hmm... Will I or won't I?


So here we go!!! checking the list just like Santa 

my check list for Jan 2017

ideas - check
stamina, courage, two good hands, strong back - check

Tools

easel in good working order - check
paint brushes/ painting knives - check
taboret - check
stool - check
footrest - check
painting shirt - check
apron - check
drop sheets - check
bungee cord - check
paintboxes - check
light pad - check
camera/batteries - check
phone - check

odds and ends - check 

bull dog clips,push pins
bungee cord - check
small hand truck - check

Paint  - check
w/c, oils. acrylics  - check

Supports,
canvas boards,  masonite, stretched canvas - check

Drawing Materials  - check
pencils, pens, quills - check
charcoal - check
paper/ various kinds - check
kneadable eraser - checks
plastic eraser - checks
straight edge - checks
safety/protective sheet - checks

Miscellaneous
paper towels - check
rags - check
mineral spirits - check
clove oil - check
saflower oil - check
mahl stick - check 
dish soap/ bar cleaner soap  -check

Day 30 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 30

Day 30 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Here endth this month's mad painting/drawing spree.  Until Jan 2017 when I plan to do it again but I will paint instead. At least that's the plan.

I may have left some out of the collage I'm not sure

BUT take a peek anyway

Here's todays treasure

 

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Collage 30 Paintings in 30 Days
Sept 2016

Day 29 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 29

Day 29 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Some days the old codgers line up and watch the doin's on Main St. they've been pals for years and years and know everything about everyone in town.

You just gotta watch your P's and Q's else you'll be the butt of many jokes and a lot of ribbing.

Here's todays treasure       

 

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Old Codgers
4" x 3"
pencil on paper
Small Works

Day 28 30Painginsin 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 28

Day 28   30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sometimes someone catches your eye and you have just enough time to catch a fleeting feeling.


Here's todays treasure

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Pensive 2
3" x 3"
pencil on paper
Small Works

Day 27 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 27   Feel Free to share

Day 27 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sep 2016

Ever notice when someone is doing something someone else comes along to supervise unasked.

Straw bosses are everywhere,

Here is todays treasure

Alice Edwards 1949 --
The Straw Boss
4" x 5 1/2" 
pen on paper
Small works

Day 26 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 26,

Day 26,  30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

When this man bowed his head to pray in the local coffee, shop  I wondered what would happen. I watched with bated breath literally because this action could invite all kinds of trouble. 

Talk ceased. Silence descended for a moment. Anything could  happen..

People stopped eating, drinking and talking one by one. The silence grew respectful, almost tender in feeling. 

People waited quietly.

He raised his head and smiled gently at the people nearest him,  picked up his sandwich and took a bite. There was a barely heard general sigh. 

People looked at each other sheepishly then began eating, drinking and talking. The noise grew to it's normal steady hum but the atmosphere was definitely lighter and calmer. 

To my mind that prayer was both an act of faith and an act of bravery And for a moment united all kinds people of different colours, tempers and faiths together in a moment of thanksgiving. 

When moments like that happen, the possibly of a loving, gentle, kind community raises its head and you know, you just know, that people are inherently good and given an opportunity will behave well toward each other.  

It's humbling to be present for a moment like that.

Here is todays treasure

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Public Act of Courage
6" x 3 1/2"
pencil on paper
Small Works

Day 25 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 25,

Day 25 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Here is one of my favourite all time human beings. A kind and gentle heart who turned no one away.

No longer with us here on the planet in physical form but I still carry her in my heart.


Here is todays treasure

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Wanda Baa
4" x # 3/4"
pencil on paper
Small works

Day 24 30 Paintings in 30 Days

Sept 24 Feel free to share

Day 24 30 Paintings in 30 Days 2016

It's always fun to draw kids as they move and shift talking among themselves.

Here's todays treasure:




















Alice Edwards 1949 --
Hanging Out
5" x 4" 
pencil on paper
Small Works



























Alice Edwards 1949 --
Hanging Out
5" x 4"
pencil on paper
Small Works

Day 23 30 Paintings in 30 Days

Sept 23 2016

Day 23   30 Paintings in 30 Days

Lining up for donuts in the coffee shop early in the morning.
 Here's todays treasure           

 


















 Alice Edwards 1949 --
Ordering Donuts - coffee shop
8" x 5"
pencil on paper
Small works

Day 22 30 Pintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Feel Free to share

Sept 22, 2016

Day 22 30 Paintings in 30 Days 2016

Sometimes a vision of loveliness crosses your path in the most unexpected places as do strong friendships.

Here is todays treasure:

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Loveliness - coffee shop
4" X 3 1/2"
pencil on paper
Small Works

Day 21 30 Paintings in 30 Day Sept 2016

Sept 21,  Feel free to Share

Day 21 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Time to huddle and make plans for the coming winter. Let's see planning rink time, (yes hockey), ice fishing, putting away camping gear and finding the cribbage board for the long winter nights.

Yep, the boys in the coffee shop are planning big time.

Here's todays treasure

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Winter Planing - coffee shop
4" x 3"
pencil on paper
Small Works

Day 20 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2106

Sept 20    Feel free to share

Day 20 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Maybe one of the last few warm days on the beach with a picnic lunch.

Here's todays treasure

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Lunch Time
6" x 5"
pen and ink on paper
Small Works

Day 19 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept2 016

Sept 19, 2016

Day 19 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 21016

Where I live I get to see a lot of cows and steers hanging around chewing their cud.

They look so calm it's hard to remember they can mindlessly stampede when startled.

  Here's todays treasure:

 

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Minding Their Own Business
7" x 5 "
pencil on paper
Small Works

Day 18 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 18, 2016

Day 18  30 Paintings in 30 Days

Remember hunting crawfish in the streams and creeks as a kid?
 
Here's todays' treasure

Alice Edwards --
Simon Hunting Crayfish
3" x # 1/2"
ink on paper
Small Works

Day 17 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sat Sept 17, 2016

 Day 17

Days are shorter, slightly cooler today so the boys are in town in the coffee shops and sports bars talking about ...   you guessed it .....hockey .

I'm already tired of the word.

Here's todays treasure 

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Hockey Talk
6" x 4 1/4"
ink on paper
Small works

Day 16 30 Paintings in 30 Days

Sept 16, 2016

Day 16

It was beautiful out there today .. caught this guy having a fee Z's sunglasses and all

Here is todays treasure

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Catching Z's
 3" x $ 3/4"
ink on paper
Small Works

Day 15 30 Paintings in 30 Days

Sept 15, 2016

Day 15

Remembering can be hard work. This woman was miles away I wonder what she was thinking about?

Here is todays treasure

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Miles Away
6" x 8"
pencil on paper
Small Works

Day 14 30 Paintings in 30 Days

Day 14

30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Some times there are only seconds to record what I saw.

Here's todays treasure

Alice Edwards 1949 --
The Playground
2 1/2' x 2"
pen on paper
Small Works

 Sept 13, 2016
Day 13 30 Paintings in 30 Days
When you're desperate for a model trip over to your local coffee shop and you're good to go ...
In the mean time ...
Fingers are still crossed for the Mac which I will turn on tomorrow in the meantime thank god libraries have computers ...

Here is todays treasure

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Coffee Shop - woman
5/1/2" X 4"
Pen on paper
Small Works

Day 12 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Day 12

30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2106

So this is how things stand.

I dumped a pot of hot sugary tea all over my MacBook Pro Things are not looking good. It is drying out.

Please pray or hold a positive thought that it recovers.
All my records are in there.

Thank you everyone

After driving to tow different towns to find an open library,

Here is todays treasure
 
 


















Alice Edwards 1949 --
In the Coffee Shop
5 1/2" X 8"
pen on paper
Small Works

Day 11 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 11, 2016

Day 11 30 Paintings in 30 Days

Ever wonder what the world would be like if we all stood on one foot. No wars would be fought. W'e'd all be busy keeping our balance.

Here is todays treasure

 

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Balancing Act
7 1/2" x 3 1/4"
pencil on paper
Small Works

Day 10 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 10, 2016

Day 10 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sometimes just looking back is all you can do.

Here is todays' treasure:

 









Alice Edwards 1949 --
Looking Back
6 1/4" x 4 1/2"
pencil on paper
Small Works

Day 9 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 9, 2016

Day 9   30 Paintings in 30 Days  Sept 2016

Sometimes you gotta take a nap when the urge hits you.

Here's todays treasure:

 Alice Edwards 1949 --
Nap Time
5 1/2" X 5 1/2"
pencil on paper
Small Works

Day 8 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 8, 2016

Day 8   30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sometimes the world seems a better place when you look at it from a different point of view.

Here is today's treasure

 

 









Alice Edwards 1949 --
Viewpoint
6 1/2" X 4"
Pencil on paper
Small works

Day 7 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 7, 2016

Day 7 30 Paintings in 30 Days

Sometimes there's nothing left to do but fling yourself down and the floor and howl.

Here's todays treasure

 







Alice Edwards 1949 --
Down on the Floor
6 1/2" x 3 "
pencil on paper
Small Works

Day 6 30 Paintings 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 6, 2016

Day 6   30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

More and more I see the human body as a landscape. Beautiful no matter the size, shape, colour or sex.

How wonderfully complex yet functional.

Here's todays treasure

 

 











Alice Edwards
Pensive
61/4" X 4"
pencil on paper
Small Works

Day 5 30 Paintings in 30 Days

Sept 5, 2016

Day 5    30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

The plan was to paint today but somehow line is still wandering around and taking me with it.

Here's todays' treasure

 

















Alice Edwards 1949 --
Akimbo
5 1/2" x 4/12"
pencil on paper
Small Works

Sept 4,

Day 4   30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

I do seem to be all about lines right now. Sometimes just watching them evolve flowing one into another and morphing from there is quite meditative.

It's giving my brains a chance to reset after all the furious activity of a studio move that took three weeks packing, 6 trips and 5+ people plus a whole days unpacking by a different set of 4 of us and then another day transporting paintings puttig up a hanging system then hanging them, then rearranging it all to get ready for a pop up Open House thing with three days notice.

Truly needed some down time and the lines giving it to me. I've done 100 of these small linear works on paper.

Tomorrow I expect to be back behind the easel all things being equal.

I wanna paint ...

Here is today's treasure
Alice Edwards
the Gathering
5 1/2" x 8"
pen & ink on paper

30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 3,  2016

Day 3  

It's been so hot this past summer. Like to melt you into a little grease spot.

So today, I found myself wishing for snow. Beautiful clear clean snow. I can remember getting into all the clothes you wore to go out to play in the snow when I was a kid.

By the time you were in your snow pants, assorted sweaters, boots and hat, not to mention the string from your mittens cutting the back of your neck and then got into your parka. You were melting. All sweaty and your mom hadn't even tied your scarf around you neck yet then you had to go to the bathroom.

So out of the outdoor clothes and then back into them only to get all sweaty again before you got out the door to play.

And it suddenly occurred to me that winter or summer aren't all that different.

In one season you melt from getting ready to go outside. In the other you're all sweaty and wishing you could take your skin off to cool down.

But I wished for snow today. and since I can't order it from the corner store I drew snow accouterments as a reminder of what's just around the corner weather wise.

 Here is today's treasure

Alice Edwards
After Playing in the Snow
5" x 6 1/4"
ink on paper

 

Day 2 30 Paintings in 30 Days - Sept 2016

Sept 2, 2016

Day 2

The open House went well. People made heart felt connections to
the large paintings on display. I felt so privileged to be there to see it
and talk to them.

But now  ...

It's back to my pledge to myself to do this 30 paintings in my own studio
instead of traipsing all over creation.

So here from my very own place, The Studio In Stayner

Here's todays' treasure

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Decorated Porcelain Jug #2
4 1/2" x 5"
watercolour on paper

 

Day 1 - New 30 Paintings In 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 1, 2016

Its started again. I've committed to another 30 Paintings in 30 Days.

Clearly I have lost my mind because this begins right in the middle of moving to my new studio,
The Studio In Stayner.  It's been an uphill battle which grew exponentially like nothing on earth . Must have been all the manure I put in my diapers as a young baby.

Anyway I slipped this monetary sketch in of an old antique jug.

Here is today's treasure

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Decorated Porcelain Jug
circa 1850
 4 1/2" x 4"
watercolour on paper

Caught Behind The Easel

Feb 17, 2016

Past the middle of February already. Holy Smokes!
I gotta get a move on. That SMH hanging will be upon me any second now.

Tomorrow is D Day. Nose to the the easel etc no excuses.

I hang out at the Barrie Art Club (BAC) quite often. Someone there, who shall be nameless, captured me in all my glory behind the easel.

It'a an interesting club with artists at every level from beginner to solid pros. I've learned something from everyone I've met there. We exchange all kinds of ideas. It's not a place for people who are afraid of ideas.

Technical talk floats around in the ether too. A clever person can pluck out all kinds of information on just about every aspect of painting there is and not have to ask a question. The air is permeated with art talk.
Anyway, here I am at BAC in all my glory working up a small study.
 
Here are today's treasures:
 me hard at work and a detail from a small study

Home Again Feb 16, 2016

Feb 16, 2016
 
I'm back. I brought some imaginary friends home with me. I do so hate to travel alone.
 
Now, to unpack, give the dog a cuddle then pack up for tomorrow's sketching trip. Just a few hours with an artist friend. 

I'm taking enough time to lick the tip of my pencil, (figuratively not literally for those of you who will freak about lead poisoning) and swipe it across the page for the sheer pleasure of it with no particular purpose in mind.
 
Then Thursday is D Day.
 
I must put my nose to the grindstone, affectionately known as my easel. I have to get ready for a show to be hung March 31, in Allisiton ON.
 
So I will be painting my brains out to get ready.
 
These are biggish pieces 40" x 30" inches. I need two more. There is a drying period required so they can be handled for hanging. A third needs a little TLC and it'll be ready to go.
 
At least this time I have the right hardware.

Here are today's treasures
 
So here are my imaginary friends come to call and a pic of me with "Frozen and Fading" currently hanging in The Orillia Museum of Art and History

20th Annual International Women's Day Art Show

Jan 14, 2016

The opening at the 20th Annual International Women's Day Art Show at the Orillia Museum of Art and History (OMAH) was fantastic.
 
It was wall to wall people who had 140 pieces of stunning art to look at. I was completely bowled over. I was in in such good company...
 
I'm going back myself to have a really close look at all that art. Probably will go back more than once there's that much to see.

If you are in the Orillia area at all it is well worth a visit @ 30 Peter Street. The show will be up until 10th of April

The place is wheelchair and walker accessible ... the museum staff will gladly meet you at the ramp door

Here's my piece in the show

  

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Frozen and Fading
40" x 30"
oil on canvas

Orillia, Patience Stays I go!

Jan 12
 
Patience and I will be back. Orillia was too far for Patience to travel so she's taking a time out.
 
I'll let you know how the the 20th Annual International Women' Day Art Show Opening Reception, Sat Feb 13, 1 - 3 at the Orillia Museum of Art and History, 30 Peter Street, Orillia ON, Canada goes.
 
Women's issues are perhaps even more important now than in the 60's. I'm glad so many from all over are supporting this event. The show will be open until April 10th.
 
It promises to be pretty darn cold here tomorrow
 
See you back home Tues, Feb 16th
Hope you all have a good long weekend
Alice the Artlady

Patience Feb 10, 2016

Feb 10, 2016
Patience is wearing some colour today.
 
You ever notice that you get to yakking with an artist pal and time slides out from under you without so much as a by your leave?
 
Today it just did that. Did some research, went in town to the hospital (SMH) to measure and check out the hanging system for my April 1 show. By the time I corralled a volunteer to hold the other end of the measuring tape, I was running so far behind I was first in the world race of turtles.
 
Met up with an artist friend for a quick coffee and to bounce ideas. Then off to the local arts council office to meet with the executive-director. She had all kinds of useful information and paperwork galore. Lovely smile too.
 
From there to the printers to check on an order.  By the time I was finished the proofing, it was nearly dark. I knew Patience was waiting sitting on the easel all by herself.
 
Me? I was dying to get into the studio and sling a few licks of paint around. Patience was waiting. Everyone in the world decided to phone and none of those calls could be ignored.
 
But I did it! I got in there for a little while. Patience forgave me as I adjusted the background some more. Made more decisions about the lay in of paint, took a rough shot to show you where things stand today and well...
 

I realize that to others this all seems like it's taking a long time but it's necessary. Time to balance values, tones, colours, minute adjustments, small strokes of paint in the right place or the wrong places changes everything. Taking care. Exercising good judgement now will save me time in the long run.
 
In no time at all things will take off like a bat out of Hades. 

Patience will be happy wearing her own face and knitting up a storm.
 
In the meantime here is
Patience in process/progress
Feb10/2016/Alice Edwards#1009

 

Feb 9 - Patience in progress #1009

Feb 9, 2016

One of the things I've been thinking about today as Patience and I get reacquainted is how pictures of loved ones would have been made in her time.

Clearly, it would have been a painted portrait, perhaps a miniature, and only really available to those who had plentiful ready cash.
 
Photography as we know it, even in it's earliest forms, didn't come along until the mid 1800's and certainly wasn't readily available then.
 
Someone like Patience most likely wouldn't have had a likeness taken during the course of her life.
 
In my mind, Patience was an army wife following her English Grenadier soldier husband in the most trying circumstances in here in the new world.
 
I took a sepia tinted photograph to help me thnk of her as she might have been in those days as I work on her portrait. I do need to keep an old time mindset.
 
In actuality, she would have faced directly forward and perhaps had her head strapped tightly to the chair to keep her from moving
since an exposure took a long time. No wonder everyone looks so miserable in the Daguerreotype photos.
 
Keep in mind, the time in which Patience really lived, was close on to 100 years before Daguerreotype and sepia photos made their appearance. I thought you might like to see the results of my experiment.
 
Tomorrow I'll be doing the first lay in of her face and adjusting the background a little more.
 
We're talking now, you see, about what she wants and needs to look her best self.
 
Patience in process/progress
Feb 8/2016/Alice Edwards#1009

Feb 8, 2016 - Patience

Feb 8, 2016

Sometimes, I get to poking around in the studio and come across a piece I set aside during a move from one town to another.
 
Today, I fished this piece out and thought I'd look it over, then finish my knitter. She's from a 1760 reenactment battle staged in Tottenham a bunch of years ago.
 
I meant to finish this a while ago but got caught up in the 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge but today I made up my mind to just do it.
 
So she's up on the easel. Over the next few days of days I'll finish bringing her to life. She deserves that much from me.
 

My knitter has been patience personified, and so I've decided to name her Patience. It was an honourable name back in those days. She's quietly been living in the back of my studio storage area.
 
I took a black and white photograph to help me check the existing values, ( that's the light and dark areas), and made a few decisions about where I'll begin tomorrow.
 
I have a plan now.
 
Patience and I hope you'll join us tomorrow to begin watching her come to life under the brush
 
Patience in process/progress
Feb 8/2016/Alice Edwards#1009

Feb 7, 2016

Feb 7, 2016

Ideas are like bubbles. They are beautiful, seductive and all consuming. I love ideas. The more the merrier in my view.
 
I spent the afternoon with an artist who is not afraid of any idea. Her enthusiasm for life is infectious. I catch fire around her. Laughter is the order of the day.
 
Some of our mutual friends are convinced we are crazy but we have such fun. There isn't an idea that's too crazy to explore. One of us gets an idea and off we go.
 
Being able to bounce an idea off another mind that isn't closed is a gift direct from heaven. It is a symbiotic friendship that has gone on in one form or another for twenty one years. Some broken periods of time here and there and yet ... when we see each again it's as though no time has passed
 
But the ideas that come forward and are accepted without judgement often grow and expand effortlessly. Neither of us would dream of bursting the other's bubbles. All ideas are honestly examined without prejudice.


Soo... with that in mind here is today's treasure

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Bubbles
3 3/4" x 5 1/2"
ink on paper

Feb 6, 2016

Feb 6, 2016

Sometimes there is only a few minutes to catch someone staring off into space thinking deep thoughts.

Today was one of those times.

Actually, I had just mere minutes both times. Not really enough time to catch anything but done in Bond Head, ON in my favourite studio which made it worth while from my point of view.
 

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Meade
12" x12"
charcoal on paper





                                       





Alice Edwards 1949 --
Kathy
8" x 6"
oil on canvas board

  

                                  










                    

Feb 5, 2016

Feb 5, 2016

Today, I spent some time with an interesting person who has a kind heart to boot. Good way to live, love, learn and grow. I am constantly astonished at the good fortune I have in my friends. Between them all they make me a very rich woman.
 
She fed me sweet potato chips, parsnip chips and beet chips All are new to me. It was not only a mind expanding time but a tummy sweetener too.
 
I like going there. I learn stuff. All kinds of stuff. In her previous life she was a librarian. That means she's got all sorts of knowledge tucked away in her head. She's an art lover and a collector. So, there's lot's of eye candy too.
 
The way I figure it, if I'm smart, I'll listen to and get a free education in a variety of subjects there at the BBS. How good it that? And I got nibbles too.
 
 We were down a member. She ran off to do Granny stuff so all is forgiven, but next month she'd better show because I want to hear her take on things too.
 
I am so happy today, a dancer came forth. I'm pretty sure she'll become a painting dressed in her best and turning out a pretty leg.


I can tell I'll be back behind the easel pretty darn soon. Drawing is great fun but paintings have to happen. Shows are sneaking up on me at an astonishing pace.
 
Any day now I'll be painting my brains out in another sustained rush to a deadline.

Tomorrow though, I'm going to go paint at one of my favourite studios for a few hours, then off meet a couple of friends for a reunion coffee.

This is how I fortify myself for the next round of painting.
 
Good friends, some good talk, good food, and lots of ideas floating over them.

Here's today's treasure

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Tuttu
4 1/2" x 7"
Pencil on paper

Feb 4, 2016

Feb 4, 2016
There's the everyday jobs that got lost during the 30 paintings in 30 days.
Someone called to come yesterday to have a look around. I looked around and said sure come on over there's a few things you can look at. I hung up and then took another look around.
I realized that my entire studio was completely out of control. I can't move in here. No one else could either ... and someone was coming!
 
I threw things in boxes. Then looked around some more I had a pathway now. It was a beginning.
 
Sargeant said, At least I think it was Sargeant, he is a favourite of mine. Anyway he said, "Start with a broom and finish with a needle."
 
Sooo... duster in hand I started, ( my version of a broom ) ... and it took forever but it was worth it
 
My friend, the one who laughed so hard yesterday, grabbed these shots of me running amok dust mop in hand.
 
One down, 60 paintings to go! Oh! No!

Here I am in motion ...
 

Feb 3, 2016

Feb 3, 2016

Things are hopping The place is rocking.

I'm prepping my entry for the 20th International Women's Day Art Show.
An artist friend stopped by. She spent the entire visit laughing as she watched me rush about trying to get a bunch of things ready at the same time. I'll do the same when it's her turn.

Actually she helped out a great deal once she stopped laughing.

How is it that everything comes due at the same time? I just got offered another show. So I'll be painting like mad again shortly.
 
It always starts out reasonably. Then it goes to Hades at a pace which has to be seen to be believed.
 
New hardware has to be installed on everything else. It seems D rings are now de rigour as many galleries are changing or have changed over their hanging systems. Some are still using older systems.
 
You know of course, I have the wrong hardware on the wrong pieces.
 
Welcome to the weird and whacky world of art.

 

 So while I fix that here's a little eye candy for those who like to see an artist's working space