Wednesday, June 11, 2014

and the rain comes down down down........

but the beans and cucumbers grow UP UP UP.....
so do the lettuces
we have GARDEN!
well of a sorts
no tomato plants, as i didn't start them
one pepper which is a banana pepper that may or may not do anything

now for today, i am just finishing up my coffee and going to start work again.....
this painting won't paint itself no matter how often i dream that it does

meanwhile, i am still trying to photograph my work....uuuuuuuuuuuuuggggggggggghhhhhh this is a nightmare even with the new camera
and i am putting together a field kit for when i go to the bird farm
which also isn't easy..... i am not going to actually paint there, but take photographs and do color studies....
and i have to also get the rheumatologist appointments made- for the formal diagnosis of fibro
(and then the lyme doctor cause i am wondering if it could be all lyme? both of us need to go for lyme testing again)

i am still kicking around the next series
i still want to do a teacup series...but as the 'filler' series around the big paintings (big as in more involved not necessarily in size)

if i do the teacup series i really do need to pick up at least 4 different vintage cups/saucers that speak to me.-- and i really can't right now

i am also thinking i would like to do some work on fairy tales..... so i may do that
a series or two for a fairy tale

really while i sit and plan, there is so much that i would love to do, that even the thought of doing creates wings in my imagination and i get excited
sometimes it's hard to turn off the ideas, enough to settle on one...
like i would love to do the fairy tales.... and then hand bind them into a book!
float text (all the copyright in the public domain stuff) in the book like color plates USED to be tipped in.....
that sounds amazing to me

or do a series of illustration and make a slipcase/clam shell container that they fit in....
maybe even letter some pages to practice my atrocious lettering skills

i wouldn't mind hooking up with some etchers and doing a few series of etchings...it's been a while and i do so love to etch

oye.... see what i mean?

i am however leaning towards fairy tales i think...... or maybe folk lore from the northern hemisphere and the arctic circle again.....
i don't know why i am drawn there but i am

ok so that's my world on this rainy day....
bernie is sleeping as today is our monday...
i am about  to get to work

how about all you guys?
what all are you up to?

4 comments:

  1. Since we are in an apartment, we don't have room for a garden, but we do have about 8 pots with plants in them. We are getting ripe tomatoes and peppers now, and hoping the plants survive the heat until everything is ripe. Soon the tomato plants will just wither up, no matter how much we water them. We don't get a lot, and we have to fight the bugs and the birds for them, but it is nice to taste a fresh tomato.

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  2. i know you folks down in tx need to plant in fall or winter, cause of the heat
    some stuff should grow there though, no? like some peppers?

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  3. Our peppers are in better shape than the tomatoes. We are still trying to figure it all out.

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  4. by the time you figure it all out, you'll be back in utah!

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