Thursday, July 11, 2013

Yes, I am alive!

I need to get in the habit of posting to this blog on a regular basis. Lots happening here at the studio. Quilts turned out and no record of what was created. I am going to try to catch up here. Good health is the ticket, the better we feel the less we have to whine about, so the paper work so to speak goes undone. Blogging to me is like paper work. I have never been good at tooting my own horn. I hate shows and I an very uncomfortable accepting oohs and ahhs. What does one say when approached by someone who says I just love your work...and then they "want to purchase something cheap, what do you have"? What is the comeback when someone comments that their great aunt is an artist too and she paints landscapes, perhaps you should do the same?

Now an image:

This is "Marty" a cat whose portrait was commissioned. Apparently Marty has quite a personality and  his owners adore him. His portrait was done in acrylics on canvas.

I did see a good movie last night titled "Silvia" It was about Silvia Plath's marriage and suicide. Seems I read some poems of hers when I was in High School, now that was a long time ago for sure. I have time now to explore the reasons I was forced to read her years ago. How can a kid in HS relate to the state of mind and words of someone like Plath? I ordered a few books of and about her from Amazon so more later on Plath.