Still Painting

No, I haven’t taken pictures of my paintings yet. Yes, I am going to.
Today I took the third picture, the one I wasn’t happy with and painted it all over with black gesso. Then I scratched into the wet gesso showing bits of the gold and brown underneath. I don’t know where this is going or even IF it is going anywhere. Which reminds me that I took out an old picture which I didn’t like and found it much better than I remembered. I touched it up a bit…
Yesterday I bought $130 worth of groceries. Today I went back and bought $27 worth of things I had forgotten yesterday! Some of it was on the list and I still forgot it but a couple of things were needed and Fred didn’t put them on the list.
We are supposed to have more snow tomorrow. I hope we will be in the area that gets only a trace. I am sick of this.
Tomorrow I MUST get my hair cut again. My bangs are getting so long that even the side-swept bangs are in my eyes!
On Tuesday I thought it was Wednesday. I was somewhat surprised that I got a second Wednesday this week! So, tomorrow is haircut in the morning and chorus practice in the evening. Next Thursday I have an appointment with the doctor that put this metal hip in me.
Which reminds me that we got email from our landlord who told us he had just got out of hospital where metal was put in his leg to repair the breaks. Anyway, he DID arrange for someone to get the trash cans to the street and they were emptied.
I am still using the SAD lamp on days when we have no sun. I am still delighted with the effect it is having on me. What amazes me is that I am painting without a class to inspire me. Not only do I seem to have a little more energy but I am so much more interested in what I am doing.

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

Marcus Aurelius

Ginger Rogers

March 23, 2011

I wish I would paint at home but for whatever reason I never do.

Violet

I’m sick of it, too!!! I look at the forecast, and there’s always more cloudy days than sunny ones.

TheWoodsprite

I think it’s wonderful how you are painting up a storm since you got the SAD light! :o) !! I am really beginning to see the value in taking time to make a shopping list…. I spend about $50 LESS if I make a list and actually stick to it! hugs, Nicky

p.s. today is Thursday! ;o) !! heehee! hugs, Nicky

gray tabby

March 24, 2011

sounds like that SAD light is a good thing for you. hope your landlord heals quickly. i’m so tired of cold and snow. will be very glad when spring finally arrives. take care,

VeronicaCorningstone

I’m looking forward to seeing the pictures. 🙂

Telynor

I’m glad you’re doing so well with the SAD lamp. And I understand about the snow, fortunately, ours melted quickly today. But I am so so tired of it, I want to see some colour around here.

You are out and about quite a bit these days…good to see it.

The SAD lamp is interesting. Maybe due to all the light out here, it helps us deal with the endless snow. I hate repeated trips to the grocery store, it is a PAIN.

RYN: I was actually surprised when I found SEVERAL different Biblical translations with that change. I think perhaps the connotation of lilies in many people’s minds is more of a ‘hot house’ type flower and not so much something that would just grow in a field without being ‘tended’ per se. That’s the only possible explanation I could come up with for that change.

Artists are always portrayed as never being satisfied with their work. Do you let others critique your work before deciding it’s “bad”?