Painting Category
My first show in Santa Barbara
Posted on June 6, 2015 Leave a Comment
This Spring I was accepted in the SBAA. This week I was accepted into a juried show that’s at the downtown library. Its a small step into art in this town. Next week I’ve been here in Santa Barbara a full year. Its been a year of being a little unmoored artistically and in so […]
This one was tough
Posted on May 6, 2014 Leave a Comment
This background has had many iterations. Painted. Painted again. Sanded. Repainted. Resanded. Reoutlined. The frustration was sustained but once I figured out what was bothering me the resolution tumbled out in a satisfying rush.
Sabbatical Log: Day 31 and 30
Posted on May 5, 2014 Leave a Comment
I messed up my days a bit. I don’t even know what happened to day 29. It doesn’t matter, it’s just my online journal. I’m able to let that sort of thing go pretty darn easily. Maybe I’d be more successful if I was tighter wound in this way, but I am a-ok letting this […]
Sabbatical Log: Day 25.5
Posted on April 27, 2014 Leave a Comment
Friday I tried this yoga video that frustrated me enough that I quit 30min in. It was not very aerobic, but a confusing strength plank/balancing combo. I may try it again in a month. Maybe it was not the day for that video. I did some work around the house because I had an appointment for […]
Sabbatical log: Day 23
Posted on April 23, 2014 Leave a Comment
Yoga. I’m still challenged at standing balance poses and binding poses, but seriously the standing poses make me feel like i have round feet. No coffee till studio policy worked marginally better (I still looked at the Malort Face Flickr site among other things somehow). Rode my bike and my fingers were cold. I’m tired […]
Sabbatical log: Day 22
Posted on April 22, 2014 Leave a Comment
So I did yoga this morning and tried my no coffee ’till studio routine. I think it helped, but my pokey butt is stubborn. Studio results were incremental despite the work put into it. So it goes sometimes. Still the sun was bright and I walked and felt very good.
Sabbatical Day 21: Return to the Studio
Posted on April 22, 2014 Leave a Comment
So Santa Barbara is a real place. I have been there to confirm it is a real place where people live. This move is now real to me. Also adding to the realness department we signed a lease to a small apartment with an ocean view. This landlocked midwesterner’s life is about to change. But one […]
Sabbatical log: Day 20
Posted on April 12, 2014 Leave a Comment
Friday was really beautiful so I played hooky on yoga and painting. I did do all my laundry in prep for my trip to Santa Barbara, there was a portion of responsibility in there. Afterwards I rode my bike in short sleeves! My shining pink polka-dotted arms made a little vitamin D and soaked up […]
Sabbatical Log: Day 19
Posted on April 10, 2014 Leave a Comment
I don’t feel so hot today. I started feeling poorly when I got to my studio, but I felt off all day starting at 3am. I muddled through some things. Worked on a painting composition but mostly varnished and painted sides. I was kinda interested if my space ace brain would do something brilliant, but […]
Sabbatical Log: Day 18
Posted on April 9, 2014 Leave a Comment
I did yoga after a mental fight. I drank coffee and read the internet and then gosh cleaned up the house. I really do have a tough time transitioning out of the house and there is no limit to the productive things I will think of to delay myself even though I want to leave […]
