Breakfast - The boys got up before Mom and later she was impressed by how they managed to clean up.7/20/2010 Painting while people watch is scary if you're not used to it. I did this last Sunday as a demonstration during Artist Alley on Main St. Markham. I'll have more about that later. I was trying to be very loose and free like Charles Reid but I was too nervous to acheive that kind of look. After a little while, I got used to it and people were very kind. Then a woman and her aged father came along. They watched for awhile and then she told me that he had been a watercolor master in China. I just about dropped my brush. I assumed he must think I was dreadfull. I mumbled something about just messing around with paint...hehe. She frowned and then I noticed he was smiling away at my picture. Not speaking any english, he had no idea what I was saying. He was just enjoying watching me paint with no harsh judgement. He nodded at me and I suddenly realized I was the harsh critic and my own worst enemy. One of these days I'll learn to get rid of that nasty critic!
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I've been thinking alot about houses lately. We humans invest so much in our houses that they become like part of us. Then we leave them and someone else moves in. We're kind of like hermit crabs.
I've just put a print of this in my store. I used to be very intimidated by blank pages, especially if the diary was a beautiful book. When I was little, I tried so hard to have the neatest printing. Those diaries are hilarious now, mostly because my spelling was so terrible. Never mind, the printing was quite passable. When I got a little older, I filled pages and pages with lists of everything I did and everywhere I went. Those diaries are incredibly boring! As a teen, I thought I'd better spice up my diaries with more emotional content. My diaries became seething raging journals of teen angst. EEK! I threw them out! Now I just keep doodle journals; little 4 by 6 inch books that I doodle away in. Sometimes I write down strange or funny things that I hear. I actually enjoy looking back at my doodle journals without embarrassment. They are fun and relaxing and they give me great art ideas.
The picture above is a watercolor which has been "cartoonified" with GIMP. I do love GIMP! Below are some random pages from my doodle diary. They'll enlarge if you click them. |
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