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| Laundry #1, 2011, water markers and pastels. This Laundry doesn't make Sunday Monday; it's just a drawing. The following laundry photographs definitely do, for that's what I'm doing this Sunday morning. |
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| First load: Towels |
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| Shout it out! I DON'T REMEMBER SPILLING COFFEE! |
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| No need to separate guys; this mixed crowd has been mixing it up for years. |
Tomorrow's Monday, I'll be gone--and Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday too. So I'm living next week today. Starting with the laundry. Then a little cooking, (I really do not want to eat out four nights in a row, so four dinners coming right up). Then a swim in the lake (After standing all day and driving home in rush hour traffic, a glass of wine on the deck and nothing more vigorous please)! Then pack a lunch, close up the art case, load it into the car, wash my hair and figure what outfit I have worn for four days straight: my Niki shorts and a shirt of course-- and my white warm up jacket sans coffee spills. I hit the road at ten to nine in the morning. I'm thinking I should go earlier to scout out the best spot. If I remember correctly from fifty years ago, some work spots were definitely better than others. OMG reality has hit. Linda is leaving the building!
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| Two 100% cotton canvas pads, tubes of hard-to-get colors and small filberts arrived just as I walked back into the house with cheap substitutes. I was thrilled. I hate not having what was suggested. |
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| I never knew a canvas pad could be so beautiful. I'm glad I chose that over canvas boards. |
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| Laundry #2, 2011, water markers. Another favorite drawing of a not so favorite task. |
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| My studio away from my studio the next four days. Doesn't look like a five star. Then, this workshop will be no vacation. |
Hope you have a great time.
ReplyDeleteMe too Ann.
DeleteLook out world, look who's coming!
ReplyDeleteI missed out on the laundry series - #1 is fabulous and reminds me of your pastries.
Integration for laundry! OMG! Well, this is the 21st century, after all.
Good luck with your workshop. I don't know what I am going to do without a new post from you every time I pick up the phone. Oh, I'll manage somehow I suppose..don't worry about it. Really.
Thanks Dan. Painting the laundry is a lot more fun than doing it. Washing isn't so bad. Drying isn't so bad. It's folding that's a drag. And what's with packing a lunch? I don't believe in eating where you work. The mind needs to reboot; it can only do that with a change of scene. I love art, but certainly not 24/7.
DeleteI don't know, I might bring my paintings home from school. Then again, maybe I won't? When all is done though, I know I'll have a few words to say.
I love that first laundry painting. It is so full with colors and structures. I also like the towel laundry picture, that could inspire an semi-abstract painting.
ReplyDeleteCan't you do anything without being creative? =)
Me too Roger. I keep pulling it out of the pile, so I must like it. It makes me wonder why I put away the water markers.
DeleteYou're the only one who appreciated my arty laundry photographs. I kept thinking "Mountains of Laundry" as I clicked the photos from all angles. The stuff fell as it fell; no rearranging went on.
Thank you, you are sweet. Today I'll see just how creative I am. It will be nice to be hopefully among people who are better at the craft than me, but hopefully, I'm not the worst. That would be crushing. I'm such a kid when it comes to making art. It's like I picked up somewhere where I left off--in my early thirties, I think it was that I declared NO MORE CLASSES! I hated still lifes. And all the students were such snobs and had no reason to be. I'm hoping everybody mellowed out.
Dear Linda ,your diary is so amusing ! Then if I add the fun of my translator is even more amusing.
ReplyDeleteThe door quinacridone Violet ... purchases arrived last minute ... you bring readers into
your life ,with a creative energy , full of life-things-done.
Thanks for your blog-adventures,every day.
I love all your art work and I hope you have a workshop full of tangible results.
Me too. I feel like a kid going to her first day at a new school. Will the kids be nice? Will the teacher be good? Do I have all the right stuff? Will I be the worst in the room? What's the best way to get there? Where's the bathroom? It's been a long time Rita since I've done this. And Yesterday, Monday Sunday, I was exhausted getting the house in order for my absence. And all last week I was all over the place gathering up materials and worrying about small size formats and me. This first adventure is longer than just four days. Next one will be a breeze.
DeleteLove your sketches, and stream-of-conciousness style of writing. I am so excited to hear about your time in portrait boot camp! I know you'll do so well, and come back with fabulous stories, techniques, painting ...
ReplyDeleteHAVE A GREAT TIME!
First I have to get in the door. I've got baggage! It rolls, but they have steps. Ah the pain we go through for the inside secrets of portrait painting!
DeleteI'm so glad you got your supplies! Have a FABULOUS week love. I look forward to hearing all about it.
ReplyDeleteI was thrilled to see that box on the front porch! I hated not having what was listed. And the canvas pad was a beauty compared to the crap one I picked up to tide me over--both were the same price! Utrecht will get some more of my business.
DeleteHave a great time Linda.
ReplyDeletep/s: coffee stains, I hear you.
They all came out. I do not recall spilling the stuff all over me--or any work? I must have mopped it up without missing a stroke.
DeleteOh, I am super excited for you! Have a great time and please show us your work!
ReplyDeleteI'll see Susan. Fast is not me. Hopefully it will be in four days. Strategic strokes is what gesture is all about. I think?
Deletecan't wait to get a run down on what you learn....you will have a great time...I know it! Beautiful laundry paintings.
ReplyDeleteThanks Celeste. "They" say to paint what you know. Next I'll be painting the refrigerator as I clean it out. I'm looking forward to it. I just wish today was over. Tomorrow, I'll have the lay-of-the-land.
DeleteWow, how very exciting!
ReplyDeleteYou think so Evelyn? So it's excitement that's flying around in my gut. Good. I thought I had butterflies.
DeleteButterflies are good! Better than having twists of doubts and emotionless swirls about brushes and colors-which is what I had the whole weekend (Oh if only I could digest more easy what people say).
ReplyDeleteYou seem to have had a good time even before the workshop begun! The new materials gave you an itch and for that I now have the pleasure to enjoy laundry paintings. Love them. Picasso-I think-said 'some take the sun and transform it into a yellow spot, some take a yellow spot and transform it into the sun'. You take pastries, laundry rooms, defect lines on a drawing paper and make it art. You take a much missed red door and make it words for many to read and enjoy.
Hugs.x
Your making me feel excited for you!! I have just been catching up on your blog but I still haven't seen who your taking a workshop with? It sounds so exciting and fun!! Well not the laundry part, but you know what i mean. And can I tell you how much I LOVE your drawing at the opening of the post? It is gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteWhen I finally got here all that remained was dust settling ...
ReplyDeleteHope you have a great time and I can't wait for the debrief!
I can hardly move. It was a full six studio hours. I haven't done that since I was late twenties, early thirties.
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