Wave

Some of my ESO guildies are also artists, and one of them posted a weekly challenge...a wave.

Since I finished painting 6 of 7 in my new Topiary Cats series, and I'm in planning stages for the last one, and also because I needed a little break, I painted a wave this morning.

It's 9x12 on Mi Tientes...I figured I'd continue my adventures in smooth paper and learning to like it...and I'm happy to say when I remember to check and use the SMOOTH side of Mi Tientes I like it just fine.  The textured side is a definite NO.

All Unisons.  Maybe an hour and a half.

The ref is from when Rob and I went to Jones beach over the summer.

Labels

Daya got a label maker. Apparently she has wanted one for a while.  She bought it with her own money.

FORESIGHT:  I told her she cannot label anything in my room. Everything else is ok.

We can see the importance of having a label maker here in this picture of the First Label:

Daya Can Dance, I Cannot Paint

Daya had a dance performance yesterday.  Her studio does an annual Autism fundraiser.  It was a beautiful show.

It was raining quite a lot and I didn't take my camera, which does a much better job than my phone.

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Today was such a strange blah kind of day.

Carey and I both felt brain-dead but we also wanted to paint.  So when I got home from the show, we had a paint date.

I even wrote a poem for it:

Dishes are clean

Laundry is not

It's time to paint

So I don't care.

We both thought it was a very good poem.

So Carey and I both showed up and the easel and we tried very hard for quite a while and neither of us could paint.  We both forgot how.

Two hours in I gave up, apologized to the paper, and wiped it clean.

Carey was smarter and gave up on her lost cause a bit sooner.

We both agreed that at least we tried, and if we have to forget how to paint and fail, it's better to have company.

We are both hoping we remember how to paint again very soon.

Maya Papaya

When you have a deadline you knew about for many months it is inadvisable to leave it for the last 2 days..... 

This is a wedding gift for a friend/coworker.

8x10 pastel on Uart 600

Jet Pack Cat

Daya decided Isis is a jet pack.
She even let Daya hold her and run around in circles.

Although extremely tolerant, Isis has a terrible tendency to smack other creatures in the face, so as long as you don't let her do that, you can do pretty much anything and she'll let you.

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I have pulled a true Superstar Artist Boss Move.

My coworkler is getting married and I have been planning on doing a painting.

I have known about the deadline for six months.

So of course I waited to start in the final three days and it is a LOT of work.

I did get about 2 1/2 hours in before literally almost falling asleep at the easel...why I was so wiped out by 10pm is a mystery- it's a good start but needs a lot of work and I'm stressing.

Why did I wait so long?

Well, partially it's another painting's fault.

I am working on another series of Topiary Cats...started the end of December and I'm 5 paintings in.  This latest one took way longer than anticipated, I d\on't even know why.  Maybe because I have been really stressed about some pretty serious  Daya-things lately which finally have some resolution....or rather a start to resolution.......

Anyhow the 5th painting gave me a hell of a hard time for no particular reason and I couldn't start another until it was finished.  (Mental thing.  I needed to clear it out of my mind.)  So I was stuck and hung up but I plowed through it on Sunday night and got it done FINALLY.

So why I waited for the last three days.... yeah, I'm blaming another painting.

Hopefully I'll get the series done this month or early next month.  Still a few more to do.

February

I have been feeling a little burned out on my blog, but I also know I'll regret taking a bunch of time off from it.  I always regret when I do that.

There is some change coming, my company was sold yesterday...well, 55% of it was.
So no matter what, I have some job transition coming up, but nothing immediately.

It's been a really long time since I had any kind of Major Life Change and that's just fine with me.  I went through too much at the same time back when Daya was born, so I like to think I did it all at once and got it over with.  And while I'm carrying so much weight with Daya I really need the stability.

I would like for the stability to continue. It likely will for this year. But after that we will see. Hopefully there will be a place for me when everything settles down. That would be ideal.

This is the time to really practice positive mind, and it isn't easy.  It's a constant thing. Sometimes it is forced.

As my yoga teacher says, "This, or something better."

There isn't anything I can do right now, there isn't anything more I can know.