Day 2 Chanel and the Still Dying Flower

The flower is still dying - and yet it still looks like it did yesterday.

Chanel and the still dying flower

Kodachrome

I read about the cancellation of the Kodachrome film. In truth I don't remember,if I ever bought that brand because I would just buy what was on sale, but I'm mourning it anyway.  What I am really sad about is the passing of anticipation.  I remember returning from vacations, sending off my rolls of film and praying that, they weren't lost.  After a week or two you would pick up the film -  if you were lucky, you had some great shots and you got to relive your trip all over.  There was one embarrassing time where I brought in unexposed film.  Boy wasn't that funny? In today's world of instant messaging, instant oatmeal and instant music, we very rarely have to wait for anything (except repair of a phone that we will talk about another time).  So I will turn off my computer, shut my iPod and take a moment to  think of a slower time. 

If you took all the girls I knew

When I was single

And brought them all together for one night

I know they'd never match

my sweet imagination

everything looks WORSE in black and white

Kodachrome

They give us those nice bright colors

They give us the greens of summers

Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, Oh yeah

I got a Nikon camera

I love to take a photograph

So mama don't take my Kodachrome away

I did intend to paint a roll of Kodachrome film with a camera but I just kept painting the camera over and over.  There are a lot of shapes in a camera, never mind I  gave up film a long time ago.

Canon Camera

I'm Back

It has been so long that I forgot my password, my email and the name of this blog, but all is well now.

I am resolving to blog at least once a week and here I am.  The title of this one should be really "be brave".  I have tried to paint rocks and I always gave up. This is a scene I've attempted before and always stopped but this past month I bravely persisted and voila - a river painting.  At least, I think that it looks like a river.  There are somethings that could be fixed but I feel the perspective works and for a first attempt that's good enough.

Karin Jurick has a blog called different strokes for different folks. Once a year people send in their photographs and she matches up two artists. Everyone then paints a portrait. Here is the photo sent to me and what I painted. I am not very happy with the result. Well I never painted teeth before. Teeth are hard. The more I tried the more this beautiful girl looked she had a hole head.

I don't know your name but I am so sorry for what I did to you.

Really, really sorry

I recently submitted 2 paintings to a juried show and one piece was accepted. This was my first time being judged and my first reaction was great, I was accepted. Of course, my second reaction was what was wrong with the other painting. My third reaction was it can't be much of a show if they are accepted me. I react too much.I was thrilled when we arrived at the vernisage and was told that my painting had sold. See you can see the red dot if you squint hard. The other works were impressive. Half the proceeds were going to Animatch which is a dog rescue, an organization I am proud to help.

Elana's pants are in the background. Every painting I have done of her feet has sold. She thinks I make her look fat. She has fat ankle issues.

The only thing was I forgot to take a picture of Mulligan with her portrait. So I returned on Monday. Let me say in advance is that I don't think I thought this out. Mully is the most

beautiful dog in the world (I know because my husband agrees with me). she is also the worst behaved dog in the world. I am sure there is probably some dog who is worse but that dog doesn't live with us. Well she burst into the gallery and I didn't know that the owner of the gallery brings her own dogs with her. Mully thought she was at a dog park and just started running around and playing.

Galleries shouldn't leave cookies on the tables or candies or wine either.

I finally got her to pose. Lots of cookies were used. Right beside our picture was a glass table with pretzels.

Thank God the table was stronger then it looked.

I don't think we will be invited back to the gallery.