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What I've been up to

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New Florida house

It's not quite finished, but I'm liking it. It's 12x9 encaustic on wood. I'm doing sort of a screenprint-type process with stencils.

Woo

Freaky strip of wax..

Status report

This is my little painting area in the garage. I try to get out here during naps and some nights. I'm going to wait to show any works in progress until I have more done.
I haven't done much sewing since I'm painting, and there are only so many hours.. I have some patterns ladybug might be too big for soon though, so maybe I can find time.
Bug has been completely weaned for several weeks. She is sleeping well and learning new words everyday. Goggy ( dog) and yo yo (yogurt) are my favorite.

That is all for the moment.. Hopefully we won't have much to report about hurricane Ike.

painting!

I'd been having the itch to paint the past few days, and yesterday I fiddled most of the day. It felt really good.. like "Oh yeah, there's that part of my brain, I remember you!" It was a happy reunion. I did watercolor and a little gouache, which is about as safe as you can get I guess as far as paint fumes go. I started out by hole punching through some magazines, and then I picked out the ones I liked and enlarged them and painted them on watercolor paper:

(The dots are about 3/4", so the whole thing is just over 4" square)
It was a pretty fun way to play with pattern and color. I think I'll try another one in a more interesting arrangement.. maybe vary the sizes? Not sure yet, but its a nice little system. I actually really like the tedium of painting something tiny.
I'm going to stop talking about it now, so I don't fall into my habit of over-thinking when I need to just do.

I got some good books from the library the other day.. I need to add that amazon list to this thing... if I can.

Art

I posted images of all the paintings I still have here. I'll get BlueKuan.com to point to that site as well, but this works for now. It made me realize how many paintings I have sitting around. Maybe I can get a couple sold before Christmas.

I also occasionally post at AllofSWFL.com, so check that out for local stuff.