Busy

A beautiful sunny windless day helped to break the stupor inflicted on me yesterday by a combination of dreary endless rain and a printer that went inexplicably stupid and printed everything in blue ink. Very frustrating but I learned how to use the draw program in appleworks along the way. That is fun and kind of a cool way to abstract a landscape with geometric shapes and wild patterns.

Today I was able to finally design and print out labels for the back of my paintings. I'll write the title, media and price by hand in the nifty gray box I designed.

Then I took and edited photos of the 46 paintings I had culled that might be contenders for the small works show - Laura had picked six for the wall and said others could be kept unframed in a flatfile drawer. Here is one that has a fall-ish feel.

I found that if you double click the blog images they will expand - not that that will necessarily insure an improvement - paintings, like people often look better from a distance. Actually always - the paintings, that is.

Here's another with fall colors  - this is from a new series in which I use multiple mat openings. I'm so glad we kept the computerized mat cutter from the now defunct framing business.

 This is all one painting but it didn't work as well without the dimension the triple opening gives it. I'll be showing more paintings with multiple openings - some symmetrical - some not and another type in which each opening has a separate painting although  they are all on one piece of paper. These are fun to do - maybe less serious - usually all the same scene in different colors or seasons. I know, it sounds tacky - well now I have to show one.

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