It’s Halloween, Mama’s first on the other side. So I baked some cookies tonight. Loaded them with her favorite stuff. I’ll sit down in the oak grove where we buried her ashes and share a couple with her. Probably should bring a beer for my Dad. He’s an old hand at this Halloween stuff. Been…
I made a couple of enchilada casseroles tonight, enough so I don’t have to cook for a couple of days. Just toss together a salad and we’re good. I popped them in the oven and went down (because it’s downhill) to give the horses their ‘bucket’. The bucket being their nightly dessert of beet pulp,…
OK, got the photos from yesterday. Remember–said I was on fire. Said I nailed it in the studio. But I didn’t have my camera. You had to trust me because I wasn’t going to brave the wild beasties and things that go bump in the night just to snag a few photos. So here they…
Oh. My. Goo’ness. Tonight I went down to the studio and NAILED it! I was a creative fool, yes indeed. After my day job–which is something I usually don’t do. For all sorts of reasons. Like, I’m tired. It’s been a long day. Or, it’s dark, I can’t paint by artificial light. And then there’s…
Daughter Dearest and I were watching the news this evening. There was yet another story about obesity. One of those things where they show video clips of anonymous rear ends and bellies, all on the far side o’plump. Daughter Dearest (a svelt size 2 if even that) turned to me and wondered what it would…
I had a conversation with my friend Dieter today. I told her–no, make that I bared my soul and confided to a good and dear friend–in other words, one who WOULD NOT JUDGE ME–I confided my weakness for SMARTEES. I happen to like SMARTEES this time of year. When they start showing up in candy dishes everywhere….
Quick look at what I’m doing right now. Oils, mostly on plaster. Works-in-progress, every one. Early days. This is my favorite: It’s oil on plaster. Think thin coats of oil paint, colors over colors with lots of scratching. And then there’s the heavy texture of the plaster underneath. But this is just the beginning. As…
Busy day. Productive day in Studio Grande. Six works-in-progress. YAY!!! Comfy chair time. Nachos. TeeVee. Settled back to write my post. Post pics of the W-I-P. Then Sophie got involved. She wasn’t impressed. Told me she could do better. Said she was way cuter than pictures of half assed finished art work. Which she is. But she’s not…
So I went down to the studio this morning. Figured even if yesterday’s experiment was a bust it might be edible. It was. And it wasn’t. Note to self: Real cream cheese has to be refrigerated. That should’ve been my first clue. Couldn’t eat it. Nothing else to do but scrape that sucker down. I…
I’ve got a show coming up in three weeks. THREE WEEKS! Pause here to breathe into a paper bag, in case you’re getting anxious for me. And you might be if you saw what I did in the studio today. Because today I gave myself permission to get in there and make a mess. Push…
