Happy Mother's Day

Off to do family stuff today. Hope all Mother's out there have a fabulous day.

A Day at the Museum

Today is the pickup of work from our Women's Show. I will be there from 10-12. Then home, unpack car, prepare piece for mailing to Miami and hopefully begin work on my next project. Details to come.

To do List

On my Calendar for today:

Buy box for shipping
Buy foam for painting protection
Go to bank
Purchase ink for printer
Pickup paintings from recent exhibit
Prepare box and foam and ship painting to Miami
print giclees for gallery
Pull together research for next painting

Tuesday night we went to a Billy Joel concert. I remember seeing him when I was about 19, for the first time. Since then, I have seen him probably 8 times, twice when he toured with Elton John. It was such a great concert and it brought back so many memories to hear some of the songs he played.

Yesterday, I had major computer issues. Apparently, my DSL cable got messed up and I had to call the phone company to get it all fixed. After 3 hrs and 3 phone calls, it is now up and running, wirelessly. Don't know why I never used the wireless feature before. But now I am able to run both my desktop and laptop from the same connection, which is great. I have both networked and was able to share files before, but now I can use my laptop from anywhere in the house while keeping my desktop in the studio.

Working on websites today and then fixing a few areas on my painting of Cassandra. This should keep me busy all day.

Extrication of Cassandra

"Extrication of Cassandra"
11" x 14"
Oil/Encaustic on Canvas

This is the painting that I was having trouble shooting because of the glazing. I finally got a decent photo after consulting with a photographer friend of mine. I actually had to go into my laundry room, open up a cabinet, put th painting inside the cabinet and shoot with minimal light so I wouldn't get reflections. Sounds crazy, but it worked. No tiny reflective dots in my painting.

This painting will be in a group show in Vienna, Austria beginning July 7, 2008. Wish I could be there, but we will just be getting back from Italy in the middle of June and just can't manage to do 2 European trips in one year.

Waiting for paint to Dry

Spent the morning making some minor adjustments and some final glazing. Waiting for it all to dry, have a fan blowing on it, so I can take some decent photos without light reflections from the wet medium. The rest of the day I spent working on a couple of websites that I needed to get some work done on.
Have a splitting headache today. Woke up with and took some aspirin with only temporary relief. Just had to take a couple more. Eyestrain, from not wearing my over 40 glasses, and from the fumes in the studio. I have really good airflow in here, but I am sure I need to get an exhaust system. I have fans and lots of windows, but it doesn't always do the trick. (Note to self: check on window exhaust system)

Tomorrow when things dry a bit, I will take another look and maybe another layer of glaze will go on. I must be blind also because just as I uploaded this image, I realized the dark cloud in the window is right dead in the middle of the opening of the windows. Need to change that. But other than that, I think she is done.