It’s been a week. My little yellow Jeep overheated and fuses and fans. Had to have it towed.
Then the garbage grinder and Amazon had a go at me.
So I finally got over myself and painted. This is “Sweet cheeks at the beach,” pastel on half sheet of lacarte. No idea what happens next.
Scoliosis. When I was drawing this, there were no words. It was two days before I could see it as a sort of selfie.
And I painted outside!
WIP
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Here is our bird feeder snow from inside. Dana kindly cut eyeholes for me
And here is today’s extra foot. Enjoy!
Even in here in our snow globe in the woods.
The bad part
Yesterday, one of our cats horked all over all my pants.
The good part
But then I got to go paint with my Tuesday painters group AND (shameless plug here) submit two big watercolors for the Cazenovia, NY Winterfest.
Today
The bad part
I just strolled into my studio to find water coming through the ceiling onto a pile of watercolor paintings.
The good part.
It’s fixed and this one is there at the Cazenovia Public Library!
Reception Thursday 4-6
I bought a Stillman and Birn Gamma series sketch book. I’m in love.
Ink and coffee imaginary rocks.
Snowing two inches an hour in here in our snow globe. Phil’s mitten.
We lost one of our fathers to Alzheimer’s last year
We lost our Aunt Ami last week to Alzheimer’s disease
I lost the woman who introduced me to newspapers and journalism today
We lost our Aunt Dot today to dementia yesterday.
No words left, but I painted awhile. It helped.
Work in progress on the floor in the sun.
Mark Bialczak was asking people the other day what the full moon does to them. I said something about pushing me into my studio. Well, it’s up to three above zero now and my studio has a concrete floor. Soooooo, here’s another iPad moon
IPad painters are a somewhat goofy group where I fit, I think. Yesterday’s sunrise.
When people get killed for drawing, WTF?
This my best effort today, fooling around with my beloved fountain pens and ink on some plate finish paper. I like this design so it may become a grownup painting. This sketch is just 4″ by 4″ or so.
Life is better than it has been. PTSD in a loved one is a constant balancing act.
The end for today
It’s still snowing here at, oh, about an inch an hour. I am eternally grateful for having been the one to make sweet potato pies. We will survive!
An old friend has challenged me to a week of black and white.
Easy.
Black, night.
White, snow
So I painted with a wonderful Pilot refillable brush pen and coffee because I had coffee.
Then I removed the color.
What a sunrise!
In here in our snow globe, it is gray. So here’s an iPad painting to brighten up your world
Lemon sky
I painted this watercolor outside Tuesday and had a lot of fun. Monday and Tuesday morning had been difficult.
I complete abandoned any thoughts, images….
Never mind. I turned my hurting brain off and painted. The result is completely non-objective.
My brain hurts now.
nice enough this morning to get out the door just as the sun went in, but that counts too.
Golden Qor watercolor and Golden high flow acrylics. I hope they dry shiny. On Arches 140lb paper.
Sunday edition shows more drying and nice shiny leaves of acrylic paint.
Today, mid-October I painted the beginning of a watercolor while looking at the magnificent hickory tree in front of me. Woo hoo!
Tomorrow is the second and last chance for you to see the Cazenovia Art Trail! I am having a real nice time with some artists I know and meeting some new ones. I am hurting a little less so am psyched for tomorrow.
One more peek
A little digital painting like one I did paint in watercolor. Only available online at a site not yet determined to use.
Good night, all.
Alberts restaurant postcard from the past. Watercolor on paper.
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I had a great time yesterday at the Cazenovia Art Trail, Cazenovia, NY.
We had a roomful of all kinds of painters. Put our stuff all around the beautiful community room. the Art Trail folk had done a great job with maps, locations, pics of our work.
I learned that small sells very well in this economy. sold a bunch of watercolor postcards in little bags. well, they are water colors…
Here’s one, and thanks to friends who drove from far away just to see me. Gee whiz….
this one still needs work, but it’s colorful!
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this is a little Golden QoR watercolor on Yupo. QoR is the most saturated pigment I have ever used. On Yupo, which is plastic paper, color goes wild. This one will be on Redbubble and Café Press, along with a bunch of others.
I’ll have cards, mugs, all kinds of stuff available. They print, they ship. You get art in the mail. I hope everyone will be patient until next week. Until then, today’s treat.
See you Saturday in Cazenovia, NY library, and thanks for reading.
Hi there. I have been struggling with pain and getting ready for the Cazenovia Art Trail, starting this Saturday, 4 October and next, October 11 at the library in Cazenovia, NY.
Thankfully, my galoot husband Dana has organized my studio by kind. Then he pulled all the paintings from all over the place onto our studio table. We sorted by size, and then I made three piles from each size: finished, more work needed, and paint over.
All we have to do is bag em and tag em. Most of my watercolors are painted from edge to edge meaning they sometimes get mounted. Whew.
Painting is the easy part!
today’s peek
Today I was greeted by a dead cellphone. Aaack.
But I really need help from you guys to spread my Indiegogo campaign, please.
I am trying to raise money for mats and frames for the annual Cazenovia Art Trail. I am way new at crowdfunding. Have had a lot of comments by people with no followers as to how I can help by sending them money!
So
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/940887/emal/6696653
is my link. We are way broke and I was juried into this show. If anyone has suggestions or even is able to contribute, I have some perks up. Thank you all for all of your comments, likes and shares.
Another painting peek
I have had a very bad thing happen to me from which I will recover.
But I won’t be writing for awhile. Miss me?
here are some strawberries for ya
Hi there,
Sorry to have posted so infrequently, my reader.
I have been painting like crazy to get ready for Cazenovia Art Trail this fall. I am thrilled to have been asked. October 3 and 10 I will be at the Cazenovia Library with other award-winning painters. A little brag, pardon me.
My selfie painting ran in Al Dia, a great newspaper in Philly. The writer, Sabrina Vourvoulias, is a longtime friend. She asked me to write a few graphs about Frida Kahlo, who painted self portraits. She was a fiery woman as described. I love her work.
We had to put our wonderful 13-year-old dog, Cody, down today.
It is much too quiet.
lap view last winter
still numb.
read you tomorrow
martha
we had a tornado and marijuana became legal and we must put our 13-year-old dog down tomorrow.
That’s why I have not posted
I am awake, okay and will post tomorrow. The pink thing above came from a sample set of Sennelier watercolors sent me. Great paint.
I am in a rut, watercolorwise. Anyone want to try sending me one word, or color?
By the way this is me.
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I understand there is a #macromonday around here.
I was standing and am shaky, so I got one of the allium in focus and one reverse.
Cheers!
ps. My brushes are just as shaky. Stay tuned for a masterpiece, I hope.
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