Loretta Nash

DAS at the West Memphis Library “Historical Landmarks”

2012-01-25T13:15:00.001-06:00

Passing of a full uncle

2012-01-23T22:08:00.001-06:00

The passing of my full uncle is weighing heavy on my heart.

I hope that he is having fun in heaven with his mom, sisters, and one brother.

He is going to be missed. He is better.

Born in 1939 from my paternal grandmother and my great maternal grandfather ( She was the second wife.) he lived a long life on his farm.

In the 1980s was when he got indoor plumbing.

I remember the breakfast one summer with the fresh milk that he just milked.

Miss you Alvin. 1/23/2012

Psalm 92:10

2012-01-23T17:02:00.001-06:00

But my horn shalt thou exalt like

the horn of an unicorn:

I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

Psalm 69:3

2011-05-02T20:10:00.001-05:00

I have been wearied with my calling, Burnt hath been my throat, Consumed have been mine eyes, waiting for my God.

Young's Literal Translation (biblos.com)

Can Things In My Life

2011-05-02T18:28:00.000-05:00

Can things in my life get any worse?

I just received news that our car is dead and really ain’t worth fixing.

Well that really ripped a big hole in my heart.

My heart has been breaking a little, bit by bit for the past months here lately. We are financially strapped. WE, I’m talking about my husband and I.

He thinks that I’m on the internet playing around while I think I’m trying to create a business to bring in some income without going out of the house to work.

He keeps saying that I need a job. Well, duh. I have been looking but these minimum wage jobs don’t help me grow that just keep me as “free” labor or as a warm body.

That’s how it feels. All those years of working and really not getting recognized as an accomplished artist.

I know I have made a lot of mistakes and this stress doesn’t make me feel any better about myself.

I know I not the best house keeper. I am trying and he has said that I’m a whole lot different that when we first got married. I really do try.

I’m thinking that if I could sell my works like I sold photographs at Walmart than we wouldn’t be so financially stressed. I guess this is just a stupid idea.

Things have gotten some better. Prayer other than mine are out and a forgiveness prayer was given. This human nature can get me in trouble.

Limited Canvas Prints

2011-03-11T18:25:00.001-06:00

Good until 3/16/2011

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Eagle 2010

2010-09-30T21:19:00.001-05:00

Eagle 2010

color pencil/ink

purchase a poster here

Movie1

2010-09-18T20:24:00.000-05:00

Sun Moon and Stars

2010-09-09T22:17:00.001-05:00

Just a little sketch that I did for fun.

Original sketch has just one color lines beside the black. This was colored in photoshop with the extra colors.

2010-09-09T22:11:00.001-05:00

“ShadowLord” art for Oneshot Production

This was done sometime ago…I almost for got about it.

Lillies

2010-08-21T22:48:00.001-05:00

11x14 acrylic on canvas.

I did this for fun last year.

Oh, I have a new digital camera, so I can now have portrait photo sessions around town. Photoshoped if needed.

This work

2010-08-11T10:01:00.001-05:00

This work has been around for a while.

I did it while working at my old job as portrait photographer. I had a little down time between customers so I did something creative.

It is all in color pencils. The story behind it is I just wanted to create a sunflower. I was looking in a magazine and there it was so I did it my way.

I have it posted on my page at loretta-nash.fineartamerica.com for the past 3 years.

It is now able to have gilcees printed. The starting price for the gilcee on canvas is $47 (rounded up) and the quality great. Check it out and get yours and any other gilcees of my works available.

A writing project

2010-07-29T09:33:00.001-05:00

Good Morning yall!

Welcome to my new project, well at least one of many projects that I have inside my head.

If you have been reading my blogs (yes blogs, some with the same stuff)….sorry I got sidetrack looking at my email….Thank you.

Any way, this is what my life consists of:

frustrations over finances/success
boredom
being creative and not showing it in public
and just about any human experience that is given to someone who is quite

I really need to stop being so quite and be more like my 4 year old. She says high to everyone and man what energy. ( When I was working and on my days off I would wave to everyone when I was shopping, she did pick up that habit and it really annoyed whom ever I was shopping with.)

I do have moments that I’m less quite and they are important to me.

How did I become so quite? Well, that is a complicated process. My dad is always quite. I believe some are scars from the Vietnam war and some is because he was the youngest of 8. So it just the way I was raised.

We would hardly go to any function that would be over 20 (this is something funny since there were 4 kids at home.) Also being raised on a farm in the middle of nowhere didn’t help out any either.

The farm like was just that farm life. Huge open fields of beans, wheat, peanuts, and cotton. I really like the peanuts especially when they burnt the land…fresh roasted peanuts in the ground.

For years there we raised rabbits, chickens, quail, turkeys, gunnies,and ducks. We had peach, plum, and pear trees. I sometime miss it but it was a lonely life. Our closes neighbor was about a mile’s walk away. It did not bother my parents because that was how they were raised in Mississippi.

Mom had only electricity to her house and Dad didn’t have that. No indoor pluming. I still remember when my uncle got his indoor bathroom in the 1980s.

I guess spilling my life here is really not that interesting. I mainly writing to view were my life have come from.

I need to remember some of the stories my grandma told about the depression, living in the back woods of Mississippi. May be I’ll ask my mom and look again at grandma’s writings.

Okay, that is enough for right now…I guess this would make a good book, but again fear (my quietness) says no.

This will be continued later. Until then Peace.

What is going on…

2010-07-28T16:43:00.001-05:00

Okay. I really need to do something with these blogs that I have.

I have decide to write at least something.

Well, to day I was working on an art project and it was going fine until I messed it up. I messed it up by placing some washes on it.

The art work was just what I wanted. It is just that I did not get it the way I want.

I do have art for sale on redbubble. It is tees and prints. I’ll be posting more on there for prints/posters soon.

Peace.

This is so frustrating

2010-07-12T14:10:00.001-05:00

This is so frustrating. I just had a real sell for a original commissioned piece and my phone service ended.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

It was right up my ally.

I’m sorry 662-267-**** that we could not finish our conversation.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Oh, something like it will come around again

New Piece for Sale

2010-05-18T23:53:00.001-05:00

Pink Elephant

16x20 Mixed Media unframed

$500

You DON’T have to call yourself an artist

2010-05-02T15:36:00.001-05:00

You really don’t have to call yourself an artist to be an artist.

I know you may have heard that you have to get an art degree…nah not really.

Taking a lot of art classes really won’t do it either. (I have this one on personable)

It really is a mentality that you have to get.

Art is a passion.

It can be fruitful or it can take you life.

If you look through out art history you will see that all artists were commissioned by the church or a religious org. Yeah, not all art was for religious exhibits. It is just the times and what artists were supposed to do.

Really in the past 100 yrs art has become more for the individual. Art has stepped away from religion iconic designs into propaganda and graphics.

Sometimes my imagination goes of on a tangent and wants to incorporate both religion iconic and horror (religious graphic novel), but let me get back to the point.

Lately while I’m here with “my little artist” I have seen more and more artist who doesn’t have training succeed while I sit here and cry.

I guess it is my fault that I went into art blindly. Following the normals instead of looking into myself what makes me an artist.

If you really think about it art is a funny word. I mean, what it is anyway. Is it a craft or a visual outlet to express oneself?

Sometimes I really get confused. Art, Art, Art,

You know I was thinking one day, just out of the normal like I do sometimes, that Jesus was and is an artist.

Oh, wait a minute…he was a son of a carpenter. Yes he was but you have to think what all involved in carpenter back then.

If you know your Bible you would also see that Aaron (Moses’ brother) was one too. AND he made the golden calf statue.

I guess I just like throwing things out there to think about.

Later.

What is going on NOW?

2010-04-28T14:53:00.001-05:00

Well, there really isn’t anything new going on.

I’m still trying to build a art studio and make money.

The only thing that has changed is that now my husband is unemployed.

The business he worked 4 (Pizza Inn) has closed and he his looking 4 work.

I went to an interview yesterday at Sear Portrait Studio and it was a productive interview. Anyway it was a very interesting interview trying to remember the answers and sells techniques for Picture ME.

I really am still a little panicky from quitting last year. I have been enjoying staying home with my daughter and painting.

Talking about painting, there is a contest that I’m going to design something for. I have the idea on the paper and scanned, now I just have to edited it for the entry.

AT least I’m designing little by little for Crowdspring.com some of the time.

Got to go. Catch ya later.

Old Blog was deleted

2010-04-22T00:48:00.001-05:00

Well, that was maybe a mistake but it is gone now.

It said that I have been here on blogger since 2005.

I thought I was getting rid of this one but turn out that the old stuff is gone.

Oh, well, we all have to start a new.

Say What???

2010-02-18T12:47:00.001-06:00

Apparently I have been living in poverty all my life.

Oh, the reason I state this is that I stumbled upon what a living wage should be, $23 an hour. Yeah right. That’s what we were making when I was working.

Now don’t get me wrong, being in poverty is really a blessing. There really aint nothing that I don’t enjoy. It is just all these advertisements showing that there is a better life out there that really get me down.

I did all of the typical American things, went to college and then went to work. This is what was expected for me to do.

I was the first in 100 years in my family who went to college. I’m not stupid actually I would be considered a genius. I just went thru college with a some what average grades. There really wasn’t very many art majors (only 2) in college.

I loved going to BMC is was home, just my family and I could not afford it. So with work study and summers of real jobs, I made some.

Having cashier training when I was 16 help a little it just did not get me prepared for what life has.

The first summer I worked as a pizza delivery. The second as a biscuit cook. The third summer was weird; I tried being a cashier got fired on my second day for inappropriate attire (fat arms.) That when we began chopping cotton.

Chopping cotton was a term that I heard all my life as well as picking cotton. Here is what you have to do in chopping cotton, get the weeds out. You start real early in the morning working in this big field, using a hoe and watching out for poison snakes.

At least I got a great tan that summer.

After graduation I started to work. Biscuit cook was the easiest since I had experience. I worked all together 8 years as a fast food worker. When I quit that field I was a manager.

OH, I’m sorry I’m just rambling.

I got all kinds of loans and credit to pay for my college days. Here it is 20 something years and I still can’t afford it. It has actual doubled with late fees and such since 1992.

I did pay some on it the first few years after graduation. Since I was making only minimum wage, living with disabled parents and younger siblings, my money was pulled into the family’s finance. This went on for years. I moved with my sis to a different place were things got stupid.

My sis and I bought a HUD home and we asked our brother to join. I got depressed about my career choice and wanted a change. So I quit my fast food manager job looking for that art career job.

Minimum wage is stupid, but it is a wage. My husband makes minimum wage and pretty much he is in the same kind a boat as I am.

There really aint nothing holding us back from the financial responsibilities than our wage. We have a home (we don’t have to pay $600 monthly for rent) and our cars are paid for. It is just our credit is shot and we don’t have a living wage.

My husband does have a disability which has not stopped him. He has had it all his life. He wants to be in the ministry and did some evangelic work years ago, just if you haven’t been around him you would not understand him. ( I have trouble sometimes.)

As for me, I’m just not a “people person” so that I have been told. That’s why when in public I want to hide. Don’t get me wrong I can do anything creative. You just have to give me time to warm up to you.

I’m quite by nature. I’m getting more like my dad. Once I warm up to you, I’ll give you anything.

People just don’t understand me.

“Oh, but you are an artist.” Yeah, I am but that don’t mean anything if you are working retail photography for a quite person.

Oh I can do the job, I did for 8 years. That is a lie about me not being a “people person.” I quit my retail photography career.

I guess I’m just making up excuses about things and listening to others than listening to myself.

I’m an artist. I need to be myself. This is why I open my studio out of my home.

Unanswered

2009-08-18T12:27:00.001-05:00

Well, I don’t know were to begin.

I really don’t need to harp about me quitting my job in April.

It was a private conversation between my manager and me, I’ve already told about.

Well, things are getting pushed to SHIT.

I’m on disqualification for my UI because I quit without just cause. So I have no money to help with the bills at the house.

AVON which I’m a part of is not making money needed to pay bills.

My back is starting to hurt and this stress of no income is starting to effect everything. My health, my husband’s health and work, my daughter, and the pets.

Our tempers are flaring and panic is sounding its trumpet.

I guess there are some good things that have gone on since I quit.

I’m able to have a dog. I’m able to have some rest. And of course the house is cleaner.

I guess if I was at the studio all this hot summer I may have not made it. I was taking blood pressure meds that make you sensitive to heat. My heart was hurting from the stress.

The studio was right as you come in on the grocery side at Wal-mart right by the big inside doors. No air or no heat, just a fan or a heater. And now there is a rule that you can’t have either.

Blogging about this has helped me think a little. I’m just in need of something.

I know that I could make more money creating art portrait sketches. It is just hard when no one, I mean, no one have any money to spend.

lorettanash.webs.com

2009-06-13T01:03:00.001-05:00

LorettaNash.webs.com is up and running.
Whew!
Had to use at least 5 programs to get it the way I want it.
Thanks seamonkey.
Check it out.

Things are getting crazy like always

2009-05-16T13:30:00.001-05:00

Things are getting crazy. Like it always does.
This time we have a certify letter about a lawsuit.
I thought that I paid one on the suit and working on paying the other.
Like you are going to get blood from a turnip.
1) I have no money, period. No~low job/no money to catch up bills.
2) There is not good paying careers or jobs around here.

Oh, well. Something will turn things around.

I found something cool

2009-05-14T15:40:00.001-05:00

You know your glass plugins.

I found that you can pop the top and pour liquid potpourri in it.

I just did it and its working. This will help be green and save money too.

Now to my blog::::

What I been doing since I had to leave Picture Me is clean house and search for a new career path.

This has been interesting.

Only draw back is the bills are starting to come out of the wood work, mainly Bills that were taken care of X years ago or forgotten.

It’s makes me a little depressed that I have not been able to take care of them before or even now.

Come on..I’m very creative. I can take a stick and dirt to make a piece of art.

Real life is bills coming out the butt with no money coming in. So that’s what I’ve been doing with my life; working and living paycheck to paycheck.

While at Picture Me I was making $10.70 hr with medical insurance, 401k, and taxes taken out. That only gave me $400 for 2wks of work to live.

Picture Me was taking up to $500-1000 a day on my sales. I was taking that and have taken it from ever job that I have.

The only job that I got my sales $$ was perfume sales. Yeah, I did that for a week. I came up to you in a parking lot with a bottle selling it.

Being introvert that I am, I was embarrass to do that and felt stupid. That’s why I don’t want to do anything like that again.

Picture Me was similar but it had a spot and was legit.

This is what I’m trying to do with my art. I have a home studio, paint, pencils, and paper. Just no one in West Memphis knows that I’m here.

No one that is other than the folks that know me.

Well, I guess I need to do research on some projects and get back to looking for a paying job.

1:1 The word of the Lord that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

The Coming Destruction

2 Hear, you peoples, all of you;
pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it,
and let the Lord God be a witness against you,
the Lord from his holy temple.
3 For behold, the Lord is coming out of his place,
and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.
4 And the mountains will melt under him,
and the valleys will split open,
like wax before the fire,
like waters poured down a steep place.
5 All this is for the transgression of Jacob
and for the sins of the house of Israel.
What is the transgression of Jacob?
Is it not Samaria?
And what is the high place of Judah?
Is it not Jerusalem?
6 Therefore I will make Samaria a heap in the open country,
a place for planting vineyards,
and I will pour down her stones into the valley
and uncover her foundations.
7 All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,
all her wages shall be burned with fire,
and all her idols I will lay waste,
for from the fee of a prostitute she gathered them,
and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return.

8 For this I will lament and wail;
I will go stripped and naked;
I will make lamentation like the jackals,
and mourning like the ostriches.
9 For her wound is incurable,
and it has come to Judah;
it has reached to the gate of my people,
to Jerusalem.

10 Tell it not in Gath;
weep not at all;
in Beth-le-aphrah
roll yourselves in the dust.
11 Pass on your way,
inhabitants of Shaphir,
in nakedness and shame;
the inhabitants of Zaanan
do not come out;
the lamentation of Beth-ezel
shall take away from you its standing place.
12 For the inhabitants of Maroth
wait anxiously for good,
because disaster has come down from the Lord
to the gate of Jerusalem.
13 Harness the steeds to the chariots,
inhabitants of Lachish;
it was the beginning of sin
to the daughter of Zion,
for in you were found
the transgressions of Israel.
14 Therefore you shall give parting gifts
to Moresheth-gath;
the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing
to the kings of Israel.
15 I will again bring a conqueror to you,
inhabitants of Mareshah;
the glory of Israel
shall come to Adullam.
16 Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair,
for the children of your delight;
make yourselves as bald as the eagle,
for they shall go from you into exile.

Micah 1 (ESV)

painting part1

2009-04-29T22:26:00.001-05:00