tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97062042026-08-25T21:13:43.641-04:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1732125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9706204.post-59345985674794391282016-04-23T11:37:00.000-04:002016-04-23T11:37:39.290-04:00

first off i been painting like crazy........... and with a good reason i have a show coming up fall 2017...... solo show in a gallery in new york i am also submitting to some juried shows....... botanical and others i joined asba *american society of botanical artists* and i have a member page in their gallery, right now only three paintings are up but......... i will be adding more i've known

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in 1977 we became a family and over the years we've had our ups and downs as everyone does but we're still here still together *and people said we wouldn't last!* and at the end of the day, still in love

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2015 wasn't too bad for us, it started out a bit rough the van went and we had to buy a car..... so now we have our prius *i'm still in shock that we have a prius* we lost phoebe, fawn, falstaff, mr quail and the budgie girls..... everyone was old however- but that all still broke my heart- i don't like losing my animal family they got a home for life here. on the plus side, i didn't have any

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well it's that time of year again..... i miss my folks, but this year not as bad as some...i figure they are watching over me... and i also figure they are thrilled that my work is very well received. i have a few requests for you santa, if you don't mind i've made a list: * i have some friends who are very sick, recovering from surgeries, heartbreak, and illness, could you give them a bit of a

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and so far it's not working for me i have to set up in the studio and i have to make sure the lighting stays consistent- meanwhile i have a bit of a fibro flare, this one i think is stress induced, and is mostly my shoulders and my energy levels even now after 12 hours sack time, i could lay down for another 6 it feels like meanwhile i am trying to figure my gourd paintings and i am trying to

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i posted on fb the paintings that are at the printers..... we were only going to scan them as we can't afford to print without prepaid orders. well i got some orders so we are going to be printing the two pansy paintings...... 80.00 a print and 5.00 shipping i am working on a price for the original paintings as well since i am now getting asked for them this is all very huge and very scary for me

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yup winter is coming...... even though the trees are still mostly green. bernie's cutting back limbs so the chimney from the woodstove is safe  but this does mean winter is on it's way ---still on the list is insulation and crack filling...oye-along with covering windows in the studio and the door wall in the duck room more wood and a tank of oil today, we pick up 'two foxes' from the

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thank you so very very much..... i am going to be taking them outside shortly and photographing them with some corn and leaves and if the pumpkins are ok.....them too and also individually i have lethargy though today..... tomorrow is the printer (after poor bernie cuts back trees so we can use the woodstove-branches too close to the chimney)  meanwhile i've been sort of cleaning and

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i'm sort of getting ready to start another round of painting, moving things around in the studio a bit thinking about how i work and where i can put things so i can maybe work on two pieces concurrently. in the midst of this i spilled milk on my cobalt palette, as well as on my cadmium palette-i was not happy about that at all well ok now i have washed them bit all that pigment and mixed pigments

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although it's a lot colder today..... i am coming out of the blahs.. today i put up the first real soupie of the season, cause it's very cold here i am making chicken and dumplins right now i am also poaching two extra chicken breasts in the broth for bernie to slice for chicken sandwitches at work tonight and i am seriously hoping that tuesday he cuts back the trees cause it's freeken cold here-

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i need to get back to work, but for some odd reason, i just don't feel like it i did hear that my corn should be on it's way- the replacement paper should be at the po today (bernie will have to pick it up tomorrow) for some reason though, work.... no energy for it i don't know if it's the weather, which is cool, but humid and clammy, which makes it difficult for me to breath. or, if it's just

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9706204.post-1470071732492251052015-09-30T11:39:00.001-04:002015-09-30T11:39:19.855-04:00

brought a tree branch down on the prius, put a huge dent in it 500 deductible on insurance bernie said where it is....he's worried about water leaks and that the paint already is chipping off so he is worried about it rusting he is taking to the adjuster tomorrow there goes my second wood load... he's going to have to work at least 1 night overtime to cover meanwhile his company still hasn't paid

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the painting 'two foxes' will be going to the printer tomorrow to be scanned for a digital file, then ........it's new home in Massachusetts-  i am actually selling originals now. folks have been asking and it was pointed out to me that i am not getting any younger, so these paintings need to have their futures assured. as if something happens to me, bernie won't allow any of them to be sold

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** that was undamaged i cut 16 sheets of paper yesterday...doesn't sound like a lot but i had to sit down between each one so all the paper for the gouache project is cut pretty much, and in a box marked 'colored grounds for gouache' ! i am planning on making sure all the materials and supplies are inhouse from now on, prior to the start of a project...... and while i thought i was done with

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i got notice that part of my paper and brush order was in i thought we'd have to wait until monday (when the second and final part of the order would be there) but bernie ran to the post office *** he's there RIGHT NOW** so today.... i have to cut paper (and freeze sausages from his shopping trip) and in between i have to finish painting hackles on my rooster- now so far yesterday, i had a

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bernie went to shoprite this morning on the way home from work ** thank goodness cause i can't right now*** on sale ronzoni, sausage, teabags, some frozen pirogi at a price i can't even make them for, odds and ends.... we still need another 3 cords of wood 100# of potatoes a tank of oil a new storm window in one of the studio windows crack filler and insulation for the studio and duck room a roll

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a piece here, a piece there. bernie worked overtime so we are stocking up.... (potatoes weren't ready tuesday so next tuesday for them) but we are stocking food..... tuna at .69 a can we got 14 cans of that but needed a bit more- sausage on sale tomorrow....we'll get about 10# and that will hold us through to the next sale odds and ends i am restless, the weather has been so glorious, i want

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9706204.post-81827167197525434772015-09-23T08:38:00.000-04:002015-09-23T11:17:25.876-04:00

you know the type, those perfectly brilliant days with perfect weather, in a very brief period of time between the demise of the hot hot weather and the onslaught of the cold and dark time of year. days when you must must be outside, when you must try to drink it all in capture if you can the aliveness of it all before being enfolded up into your cocoon for the winter that's the reward for

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at least i hope so at least 2 bags of 50# each for the winter *** ahem, my beloved lehigh potatoes won't be ready until tuesday next ****--we are slowly getting ready i wish most of this had been done earlier, (potatoes couldn't be done earlier- but wood could have been) i wish wood was already stacked, trees cut back from the chimney, windows caulked, and covered with plastic i also wish i had

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the paper that is i had said if i could find a 25% off coupon for stonehenge i would get it.....i did, so yes i did get it (bernie actually told me to-he liked the gouache on stonehenge series) now 18 sheets of colored stonehenge are on their way (or will be soon) plus two sheets of  pescia by magnani (blue) and one each of strathmore charcoal in a dark grey and a cadet blue. plus an

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i tried an experiment  on my watercolor paper, using staining pigments to tone it. i'm not happy with it this is what i did i mixed up a solution of pigment (pthalo blue 15:3) distilled water, and oxgall i wet the paper back and front and lightly wiped off the shiny spots- and when it was sort of damp and flat washed on the pigment with a large flat soft brush, as evenly as i could manage...

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how come things never get straightened out as fast as things get screwed up? we're still having issues with bernie's company making good on the fees associated with their not paying him his vacation pay. they screwed up and now are giving us a hard time, even AFTER assuring us that they were going to fix it meanwhile, i'm still out of sorts the weather is wonderful...i should be very very

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9706204.post-8495246785117786642015-09-15T10:16:00.001-04:002015-09-15T10:16:20.221-04:00

i started to paint roosters, from the bird farm. i did the lavender orpington, and am working on the buff orpington- i've been sort of not online to much....i'm going through some of 'those' days i don't know what it is really but i'm out of sorts i guess between bernie's company totally messing up his past 4 weeks pays.... and worry over this winter and the heating situation *our wood got rained

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i've been researching grounds for the gouache paintings again- i would like a different color ground.... i found some ideas that could work maybe if i can get to experiment--- i keep hoping someone says 'oh i got the perfect thing for you, it's exactly what you need' but so far not in america so this is some of what i been thinking of all involve work and are an expense i really don't want or

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i started work on chickens .....no painting yet, just sketches of buff orpingtons i plan on doing the 4 colors of them and i will decide later on the progression of the series i can do series of 8, so two of each color..... the first four just the roos the second four the hens or any combination thereof. right now however i am just going to reacquaint myself with orpington anatomy. i have also

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