More Watercolors
More Watercolors
Current mood: 
drained
OK, after getting a good vibe from y’all after posting my artsy fartsy apple, I sat down to paint while watching American Idol with Josh (see his blog Idol Gives Back…). I had bought another apple that day, but made the mistake of putting it out on the table. It was gone. When you have three little kids, nothing is ever where you put it down last.
Which reminds me, I’ve gone without hearing aids for the last three days because Seth took my right one. When I asked him if he touched it he said, “No.” So I tried a different tack, “Seth, where’s my hearing aid?” He said, “I don’t know. I think it’s lost.” In my head, I felt like a cop who just got tipped off. Oh, yeah? Lost, huh? How would you know that? The little booger finally admitted to me yesterday that he did touch it and put it on his bed. I couldn’t find it, but at least we have narrowed the search down to one room. I just finished deadlines, so I will be going in there after this to turn the room upside-down… very carefully, though, so I don’t step on it or drop $2K down a well with no bottom. There are no wells in Seth’s room really, but that’s really how it feels. You gotta see that room to understand.
So no apple. I brought out from the bottom drawer of our fridge, an orange and a pear that had seen better days, sketched their outlines and then went for it. Pretty soon, I had to stop… I really don’t know what I’m doing. So I worked on another one. Both paintings aren’t really done, but Josh liked the palm, so I took the blue tape off and I’m just going to leave it like it is. Looking at it on the monitor makes it look like an island angel. Do you see it?
I want to do more to the fruit, but I feel like I’ll mess them up if I keep going. It’s the same as when you’re waiting for your high school date to show up and you just keep putting on more and more make-up until you look like you could work a street corner. It just ends up looking really, really bad… Art is about risks, right? Just gotta do it. At least it is immortalized on my blog in its current state.
Well, don’t just blow sunshine up my butt—tell me what you really think of these.
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Currently reading : Mary, Martha, And Me By Camille Fronk Olson Release date: By April, 2006 |
Posted on April 26th, 2007 by trish
Filed under: Artsy Fartsy, Haley Kids