Excited people make mistakes

OK, I have no new things to post right now... break is over and I'm trying to rapidly finish this homework my lovely professors thought I should have to keep me company during my time off...

During my break I prepared a nice piece of masonite fore a painting, and I decided to get the stripping to make the edges nice and pretty as well... somebody got a little too excited and forgot to account for the extra width created by the stripping and well, I ended up with four little empty spaces at the corners... i need to to back. I hate driving out there, the drive is so boring.

It's 2 am, and yet here I am....

 

Here is the studio corner of my bedroom. You can see Oscar the Therapist Plant dressed as a Christmas tree behind the easel. Suits him well, I think.

 The 'hey, look! I'm a painter and I'm painting my own self portrait' self portrait that I am working on currently. Actually just stopped working on it (hey, it's 2 am already... should probably stop now...) Originally the left arm was on my lap and my hand was concealed by the palette, then I thought, 'well, it looks stiff and dead and seems like I'm afraid to paint hands. We MUST not have that...'

so it's an 8x9 inch canvas. used to be a landscape of trees. ok, so landscapes aren't my thing, so it turned into a self portrait of just my face and shoulders, i decided that was scary and looked really stupid and I looked like i was 50 years older than I really am so then it turned into this. And it will stay this way (basically, anyway. I still have to finish it....)

another fun fact, the canvas in the painting is entirely made up. hooray for imagination!

And this is my super creative use for a pizza box.  My room dries out my paint so fast and tin foil seems to rip too easily to be a suitable palette cover, hopefully this works out. As you can see, it is lined with more tin foil. Maybe it will infuse the paints with parfum de pizza and people will buy my paintings? Or perhaps I should just go to bed now... 

peace love and turkey legs my friends.

New Painting!

OK, I'm not posting pictures of it yet... but there is one. I'm working on it now while typing with my feet! OK, I'm not doing that either, but it is in progress and once it's just a little bit further along I will post pics. I have a few I'm working on actually... stay tuned!

Note to self: send off landscape print for Marilyn! (<--- sooo sorry about that, it's just sitting in my studio feeling very much unloved right now.  Landscapes are not very representative of what I can do... perhaps if I feel this burning hatred for it still I will send you a print of a more exciting, lovable painting!)

Have a wonderful Turkey Day everyone!

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