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I'm working on a watercolor painting right now.
It's called "One night in Lemon Garden".
It's going to have a dark background Blogged here
Big thanks to Tuesday for featuring my little studio on Studio Sweet Studio!
studio-sweet-studio.com/minifanfan-studio-tour/
But No Replacement Bus Service !!
During the week I was in Scarborough , the Central Cliff Lift ( Tramway ) was closed because of work on the tracks .
Regrettably I had to walk up the adjacent stairs . It took me over 15 minutes , and two squirts of my Angina spray .
Scarborough , North Yorkshire .
Thursday lunchtime 07th-November-2024.
Headed to work in the morning across the same bridge, face the same issues, in the same job gets to be a chore sometimes. I imagine her mind is on her calendar, or perhaps something deeper.
This exhibit is at artistsandmakersstudios.com/?fbclid=IwAR1SQj7vq6mSkDt63fP... in Rockville MD. I was supposed to be up there today, installing the work, with a friend who generously arranged to be off work today to help me. Well, Sunday evening there was an email indicating that the building might be closed Tuesday on account of weather, but that they would open Monday for those who might be able to get in early to install their work or push back to Wednesday.
I didn't sleep much that night, trying to figure out the best way to travel, whether I should put it off a day and hope the roads wouldn't be too bad after the Polar Vortex moved through and whether I'd be about to get out of town on Wednesday early enough to make it a full day (there was talk of messy travel that morning). I went back and forth, back and forth trying to figure out what to do, finally deciding I'd high tail it out early on Monday and see what I could get done on my own.
After arranging for Avery's care and letting my friends know I would be staying a day early at their place in NoVA, I packed it up and took it on the road. The travel spirits looked upon me favorably and I made it up in record time.
When I carried all my work into the gallery, I looked around and felt slightly overwhelmed. I'd convinced myself that I couldn't do this by myself, that I was bad or impatient at measuring and my brain wasn't suited for such tasks. I knew I had to get started, so I began with one wall (a hallway) because there were only six pieces going up that required one nail each. I had spoken to a friend a week or so before who mentioned measuring to the center and working out from there, so that's how I started. And I continued, one wall at a time. I held myself back from looking at the whole space and number of prints I had to install, and just took it one section at a time. It took me about four hours with nothing other that a break for a drink of water a couple times and voila!
I can't express how happy this makes me. While I would have loved my friend's help, I also feel it was really important that I have the experience of moving through this process, both mentally and emotionally, on my own. I would say I did it all by myself, but I did have help from friends in other ways and that's important too.
A woman wearing Rei Kawakubo clothing at the Met Museum's Costume Institute's exhibition featuring the work of the designer.
Both schooling and moccing have felt very slow and difficult for a while now. There are these ideas I have and MOCs that I want to make but these WIPs keep piling up and they feel like failures. Classes have felt similar with studies weighing in as apparent failures reflecting in poor grades.
Though, having spent a minute reflecting on these WIPs, I feel comfortable in perceiving progress in my skills. Maybe I haven't been able accomplish full completion of these ideas but I am glad that I'm still trying.
If I weren't trying in school or in moccing... I wouldn't be learning anything at all.
Well, I'm finally getting my MO build started on.
I am trying to incorporate this build with some EU troops and have been crunched for time lately. I'm trying to depict a scene with angry protesters storming a building that has relations with the EU army. No, this isn't inspired by the recent attacks on the US Embassy's throughout the Middle East....
Please give me some CC! I hpoe to finish this by Sunday!
Even if your work
is only a turning wheel
love the turning,
love what you find
in the hub of you
and at the rim
where you flow away
to be the work
of a greater wheel.
Cleaning undertaken by www.raconservation.co.uk
Sadly, the chairs were stolen in 2018 shortly after the conservation-cleaning project - a report to follow soon - www.libervitae.co.uk
Bandhavgargh, Madhya Pradesh. Rural Indian women do a surprising amount of hard physical labour in the hot sun, from before dawn to late at night. Their colourful and delicate traditional dress seemed to jar with the dirty sweaty work, but they seemed happy enough and engaged in friendly banter with me. They were also at ease with being photographed.