Extension Play
Spending quality time in the studio can lead you down some interesting paths. Yesterday I was compelled to make pseudo-Scrabble tiles out of some veneer scraps I had lying about:
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Daily Muse
Yesterhaze
What wore me out so much that I completely forgot about musing yesterday? This did: http://beespeakersaijiki.blogspot.com/2011/07/moberly-tea-party.html
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TV DT’s
Not allowing myself to watch videos has been difficult. There is nothing I crave more after a long day than sitting prone, staring comatosely at flickering motions on the flatscreen. I have, for all intents and purposes, been going through ocular withdrawal.
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The Best Things In Life Are Not Free
They are in dollar stores. Here’s a fascinating product found in a Chinatown Dollar Land:
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I Hope
…that I can be as dedicated to my practice as Viola Frey:
Note: Does this violate my no-video challenge? If it wasn’t part of the resource material for the mentorship that I’m currently participating in, I’d say ‘yes’.
He Yis What He Yis
For some reason the theme song for the “Popeye” cartoons popped into my head tonight (I blame it on the antihistamine I took earlier on an empty stomach). This led to thinking of what a delightfully ambiguous role model he was.
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Options
Just finished a colour version of the Vimy background:
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Slim Rides Again
Today I received an email from the director of Gallery Connexion in Fredericton, NB, offering me a solo show mid May through June 2012.
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Missed Muse
Apologies for the break in blogging. I was out of town for the weekend and fully expected to be able to zip off some quick posts, but alas it didna happen.
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Mouse In My House
Seriously. Just seconds ago it ran across the laminate in front of me, scurried behind a bookcase, scampered out the other side and took refuge under one of my studio tables.
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Heavy-duty Nuisance
Over the past few years months THIS has been waking me up weekday mornings, sometimes as early as 6:30am:
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Still Life (Jacket With Dog)
Elvis in his recently acquired life jacket:
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Just Add Backdrop
It wasn’t easy, but I committed to chopping up one of my drawings:
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I Heart Painting
Temporarily fed up with making feather quills – the ones that write best are the eeny-weeny ones I made out of duck feathers before I knew what I was doing. The larger feathers are too flimsy. Granted I didn’t temper them before cutting as I probably should have. Guess instructions are there for a reason. š
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Summer Lit
Needing something to help fill the video-void (can’t work all day AND all night, at least not indefinitely) I realized a trip to the library was in order.
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NuQuills
Finding feathers suitable for quill making proved to be more of a challenge than I anticipated.
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What Up, Doc?
Today I decided which series-in-process was going to be cordially invited to get finished over the next 30 days.
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I Challenge You
To join me in a 30 Day No-video Challenge.
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Give Us This Day Our Daily Irony
There is a āPeasant Loafā in the Whole Foods bread aisle priced at $7.89.
Wish I Could Fly…
Hoping to expand my twice-weekly yoga practice I browsed YouTube for free yoga videos. A search for Hatha postures produced an offering from Yoga Yak that piqued my interest: Hatha Yoga for Sadness Relief.
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Clear Cut
In preparation of creating an informational package to send out to larger galleries and museums I made a general mind map of my work so that I could isolate recurring themes.
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My New Old Thing
While searching craigslist for a small filing cabinet I discovered an interesting business: QIC Used Furniture. A more fitting name would be be QIC Used Miscellany, as their inventory spans a vast and eclectic mix of items, among them a bird cage and a circular miter-saw.
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Histamine & Hormones
According to local allergy authorities pollen counts are 10 times higher than normal in Vancouver this year. Heck, I coulda told you that. Iāve had a couple of miserable months while nature decides whether or not it is spring.
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Happy 144th
Hope everyone had a chance to do something unsanctioned and festive this Canada Day. I had the opportunity to watch Vancouver’s Canada Place display from a friend’s building’s rooftop.
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Word Of The Day
tetch.y (adjective)
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The Sound of Music
Something I’ve been working on while I’ve been absent from my post (sorry, pun just happened, couldn’t be helped) is honing my musical adroitness. Seeing as I didn’t really have much to begin with, there can only be room for improvement. Those kind of odds appeal to me.
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Utterly Inflexible
Every time I go to yoga I am shamefully reminded about the results I scored during a flexibility test on a recent trip to Science World.
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Smells Like Teen Spirit
Oh, wait a minute, thatās poetry ā teen poetry.
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Leonardo Gets A New Coat
Or at least a pocket.
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Thrown Out On A Technicality
If Iām using a Whitney Museum of American Art bag to line my studio garbage pail…
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