Time has gotten away from me........sorry about that . Friends, family, the holidays.
I havent done any art I have one on the easle waiting for me and I would like to do small 8x10 images of Petoskey sell them in the Flour Girl Pizza place.
We will see......
What to do ? Why cant I figure this out? I have grand ideas but nothing realistic.
like "Sweet Ass Shoes for Sweet Ass Girls" A shoe company that sells shoes for women with big feet or lets say feet that fit their size. My feet arnt big on me.
Other ideas.. to make money....... Marry RICH! That was my plan didnt work out either. LOL
Sorry to be a downer today but nothing inspiring happening, I did go thru a box of old photos and love letters and some journals that I havent looked at yet but that was the height of my inspiring years.
So now what? I NEED A DOG
Friday, November 23, 2018
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
TUESDAY
Good Evening, Had a regular day and nothing interesting. THis evening I made apple cake with my son JEsse.
SCott got a great job and he is really happy living in Mason Mi. that is 213 miles from me. Not like I can see him eveyday.
IM SAD
SCott got a great job and he is really happy living in Mason Mi. that is 213 miles from me. Not like I can see him eveyday.
IM SAD
Monday, November 19, 2018
Every Evening
Today was a good day of getting things done. I also made myself watch a video on the Impressionists and will continue. I am working on an idea for a painting in my living room as I rearranged today and I like it again. It needs a painting over the TV The morning glory was nice but doesn't go with the color sceme that I like. My colors are burgundy and olive greens a rich yellow and dark brown. I also tend to paint very vivid colors and this time I want to use the colors only tone them way down so I am bringing photos into my computer and altering them. Still havent quite come up with a good subject because that painting needs to be horizontal. Landscape is the only thing. I wanted to do a young Indian Princess but she would have to be vertical.
Jess stopped over and is talking to me more its interesting and I am stAying at Brooks for the nutcracker weekend.!! WOW.
Ha maybe they think their mother loves them WTF I always HAVE given my whole life for them. ( another subject) I have been very hungry today and my hair is driving me crazy I am getting old. :>( Thats it for today.
Oh I insulated the garage closet the part that sticks out into the garage.(stupid house) I like it here. I wish it was mince but then again I dont.
Oh BTW I am not finishing that barn painting I think it SUCKS!
Nighty Night
Jess stopped over and is talking to me more its interesting and I am stAying at Brooks for the nutcracker weekend.!! WOW.
Ha maybe they think their mother loves them WTF I always HAVE given my whole life for them. ( another subject) I have been very hungry today and my hair is driving me crazy I am getting old. :>( Thats it for today.
Oh I insulated the garage closet the part that sticks out into the garage.(stupid house) I like it here. I wish it was mince but then again I dont.
Oh BTW I am not finishing that barn painting I think it SUCKS!
Nighty Night
Oh boy I was gone on Sat. evening so I didnt get to write. It is Sunday evening.
LaSt night I traveled to TC and stayed the night at my brothers house. We attended the Downtown tree lighing and parade. IT was spectacular!
LaSt night I traveled to TC and stayed the night at my brothers house. We attended the Downtown tree lighing and parade. IT was spectacular!
here is a pic of some dancers. Also on the way there I tried to take pics so I would have something to paint ,, the barns are nice.
OK so not alot going on..... I came home after shopping for a turtle neck in TC you would think that would be an easy thing to find before the winter. NO !!
It isn't, no one has them. So then I came home and alone again I got all depressed about that. as far as having a purpose. still trying to figure that out.
Friday, November 16, 2018
Second Day
Hello again it's my second day and of course I almost forgot I started this thing. But I do have a lot of news.....
So yesterday I got some of my art supplies out and as I mentioned I do not have a studio to work in like so many people do. If there is anyone that needs a studio or deserves a BIG AWESOME STUDIO its ME!!! I have created so many things in my kitchen and in my bedroom ( without a bed) and now in another kitchen.This one is even smaller.
So I get out a pack of 8x10" canvas's and think I will start small then maybe something will happen I'll get in the groove. Ok So I say what the heck am I going to paint ? OH Sharon JUST PAINT I say to myself. Ok I found a nice barn photo a friend took so I started there. Got out the colors I like and started in with acrylics............Nope didn't like it ........almost threw it out. Said WHY AM I DOING THIS? What is it for? nobody buys anything. I am tired of making shit to sell and keeping prices under $50 . I am a great artist,
I should make thousands!
Ok shut up......so I got out my craypas.... (crayons/watercolors) then tried to liven up the painting. That was fine but still kind of flat no texture. So then I get out my OIL Pastels....Now we are talking I started just slapping it on thick and scribbling the colors together it created good texture and it was FUN!! It had gotten so late that I was hungry and tired by then and only did the sky in this small painting.
I was looking forward to painting today on my Day Off
work but got a call to come in.......Crap. the day got away and I didn't work on it.
Oh well.
Tonight I go to the Circle of Arts Holiday Market and see what other artist had done. There is art out there that has gotten so lowered in quality, why?
I will tell you WHY its because of all the crap we can get from CHINA it has totally ruined the American Artist~ Do Not Lower your Standards and sell your art cheap to have someone buy it!!! Do WHAT YOU LOVE no matter if it's for sale or not! I believe I have very good taste and I have lost my quality and creativity because I am always thinking "WHAT WILL SELL?"
Quote of the day:
"We can not become what we want by remaining what we are"
Max Depree
So yesterday I got some of my art supplies out and as I mentioned I do not have a studio to work in like so many people do. If there is anyone that needs a studio or deserves a BIG AWESOME STUDIO its ME!!! I have created so many things in my kitchen and in my bedroom ( without a bed) and now in another kitchen.This one is even smaller.
So I get out a pack of 8x10" canvas's and think I will start small then maybe something will happen I'll get in the groove. Ok So I say what the heck am I going to paint ? OH Sharon JUST PAINT I say to myself. Ok I found a nice barn photo a friend took so I started there. Got out the colors I like and started in with acrylics............Nope didn't like it ........almost threw it out. Said WHY AM I DOING THIS? What is it for? nobody buys anything. I am tired of making shit to sell and keeping prices under $50 . I am a great artist,
I should make thousands!
Ok shut up......so I got out my craypas.... (crayons/watercolors) then tried to liven up the painting. That was fine but still kind of flat no texture. So then I get out my OIL Pastels....Now we are talking I started just slapping it on thick and scribbling the colors together it created good texture and it was FUN!! It had gotten so late that I was hungry and tired by then and only did the sky in this small painting.
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| texture of the sky |
I was looking forward to painting today on my Day Off
work but got a call to come in.......Crap. the day got away and I didn't work on it.
Oh well.
Tonight I go to the Circle of Arts Holiday Market and see what other artist had done. There is art out there that has gotten so lowered in quality, why?
I will tell you WHY its because of all the crap we can get from CHINA it has totally ruined the American Artist~ Do Not Lower your Standards and sell your art cheap to have someone buy it!!! Do WHAT YOU LOVE no matter if it's for sale or not! I believe I have very good taste and I have lost my quality and creativity because I am always thinking "WHAT WILL SELL?"
Quote of the day:
"We can not become what we want by remaining what we are"
Max Depree
Thursday, November 15, 2018
STILL my first day.........
Hello dear friends out there somewhere. I have been off today from a so called "real job"that is where you drive to it and someone else pays you and you don't own the business. So I thought I would start out with this new blog and then be fully inspired to do work.
Well this is what I have done today.
Went to Walgreens to pick up a script and while I was there got my flu shot.
I sanded and Formsby'ed my dresser that I just purchased it is a very beautiful old Cherry wood dresser. I started with the top and then after alot of mess and smell and sanding... ( Formsby's doesn't work) I decided that the top was all I was going to do. It looks great then I lined the drawers with contact paper. The dresser didn't smell or wasn't in bad condition. I just thought it would freshen it up. I know its not finished, I will work on it every now,Im done with it for today.
I went to my favorite place to eat and got a 1/2 order of nachos. Came home to eat them in front of the TV tried to find something on You Tube that was artistically inspiring.... As I write this I see how truly pathetic my life has become. Huh.Washed clothes, vacuumed. Now I am back at my table with brand new canvas 8x10 smaller . Thought I should just get the paints out and get to it. But what is my subject matter? I can go outside and see beautiful lake landscapes but doest everyone paint that plus want it?
Looking at my magazine again.....
Talk later
Well this is what I have done today.
Went to Walgreens to pick up a script and while I was there got my flu shot.
I sanded and Formsby'ed my dresser that I just purchased it is a very beautiful old Cherry wood dresser. I started with the top and then after alot of mess and smell and sanding... ( Formsby's doesn't work) I decided that the top was all I was going to do. It looks great then I lined the drawers with contact paper. The dresser didn't smell or wasn't in bad condition. I just thought it would freshen it up. I know its not finished, I will work on it every now,Im done with it for today.
I went to my favorite place to eat and got a 1/2 order of nachos. Came home to eat them in front of the TV tried to find something on You Tube that was artistically inspiring.... As I write this I see how truly pathetic my life has become. Huh.Washed clothes, vacuumed. Now I am back at my table with brand new canvas 8x10 smaller . Thought I should just get the paints out and get to it. But what is my subject matter? I can go outside and see beautiful lake landscapes but doest everyone paint that plus want it?
Looking at my magazine again.....
Talk later
This is my first day..........
Good Morning All........
I rewatched a very good movie "Julia and Julie". If you haven't seen it, its about Julia Child and a girl that was totally inspired by her and started a blog for one year cooking every recipe in Julia Childs cookbook. She did accomplish the task and of course it was a happy ending......
So back to me. I thought I would start a blog and since I also am a person that doesn't follow thru with anything .....no let me rephrase that. I finish a job and do it very well for others. Commissions... etc. I see other artist doing the same thing for years and that is not what I have done I keep changing my ideas because I like to learn new things. But it has gotten me nowhere.
Anyway I have been going thru a very dry patch in my life for over 5 years and need to get inspired. I am an artist. A very good one at that. Also I can do just about anything else. But I won't bore you with all the details. I do have another Blog of my artwork. I have been a self-employed artist all my life, raised a great family and I am 62 yrs old...... and living alone.
My inspirations have come from other artist such as Gustav Klimt. Alphonse Mucha. Georgia O'Keefe and some other more recent artist.
I would also like to get this out of the way..... I am not a writer and I definitely hate correct grammer and punctuation and if it wasn't for spell check Im not sure if you could read this.... So if there are misspelled words and no commas or apostrophes...forget it.. doesn't matter . OK?
So today is the first day of my new blog and I am sitting drinking coffee in my kitchen looking at a new magazine MILIUE and trying to get inspired.
Let me tell you a bit about myself. One reason I am so uninspired is because I had a big house, compared to the one I am living in now. And I sold it when the market was still down. Now I am renting and the market is HIGH so I can not do anything nor do I have a studio that is my biggest loss. I have learned alot since then. At this point in my life I don't take ANYTHING for GRANTED.
I am very grateful for all that I have and all my family and friends.
Studio........I need one. Let me tell you the mediums I have worked in. I am a painter. I have painted on canvas, walls, Large outdoor brick walls for Murals, public mural displays. I have also done large glass mosiacs for public display.
I have made a tile mural that is part of a public park. I have painted in private homes. I am a seamstress, a carpenter, I have welded steel and alumium.
I am a stained glass window maker. Mosaic glass sculpture. Ceramic tile maker.
The one thing I am not is someone that promotes myself and gets out there and gets the jobs. I am also not good at PRICING I have undersold myself many many times.....I am not rich nor do I have expensive things I have lived well on little.
This is not a blog to complain or cry to a void out in space. I just want my readers to relate to what ever is going on in their lives.
Something I would like to do with this blog . Show you what I can do and in doing so possibly help someone else or teach you how to do waht you have been wanting to do all your life and be inspired and that will also inspire me.
OR possibly someone else can teach me!!
Have a great day and get INSPIRED!
I rewatched a very good movie "Julia and Julie". If you haven't seen it, its about Julia Child and a girl that was totally inspired by her and started a blog for one year cooking every recipe in Julia Childs cookbook. She did accomplish the task and of course it was a happy ending......
So back to me. I thought I would start a blog and since I also am a person that doesn't follow thru with anything .....no let me rephrase that. I finish a job and do it very well for others. Commissions... etc. I see other artist doing the same thing for years and that is not what I have done I keep changing my ideas because I like to learn new things. But it has gotten me nowhere.
Anyway I have been going thru a very dry patch in my life for over 5 years and need to get inspired. I am an artist. A very good one at that. Also I can do just about anything else. But I won't bore you with all the details. I do have another Blog of my artwork. I have been a self-employed artist all my life, raised a great family and I am 62 yrs old...... and living alone.
My inspirations have come from other artist such as Gustav Klimt. Alphonse Mucha. Georgia O'Keefe and some other more recent artist.
I would also like to get this out of the way..... I am not a writer and I definitely hate correct grammer and punctuation and if it wasn't for spell check Im not sure if you could read this.... So if there are misspelled words and no commas or apostrophes...forget it.. doesn't matter . OK?
So today is the first day of my new blog and I am sitting drinking coffee in my kitchen looking at a new magazine MILIUE and trying to get inspired.
Let me tell you a bit about myself. One reason I am so uninspired is because I had a big house, compared to the one I am living in now. And I sold it when the market was still down. Now I am renting and the market is HIGH so I can not do anything nor do I have a studio that is my biggest loss. I have learned alot since then. At this point in my life I don't take ANYTHING for GRANTED.
I am very grateful for all that I have and all my family and friends.
Studio........I need one. Let me tell you the mediums I have worked in. I am a painter. I have painted on canvas, walls, Large outdoor brick walls for Murals, public mural displays. I have also done large glass mosiacs for public display.
I have made a tile mural that is part of a public park. I have painted in private homes. I am a seamstress, a carpenter, I have welded steel and alumium.
I am a stained glass window maker. Mosaic glass sculpture. Ceramic tile maker.
The one thing I am not is someone that promotes myself and gets out there and gets the jobs. I am also not good at PRICING I have undersold myself many many times.....I am not rich nor do I have expensive things I have lived well on little.
This is not a blog to complain or cry to a void out in space. I just want my readers to relate to what ever is going on in their lives.
Something I would like to do with this blog . Show you what I can do and in doing so possibly help someone else or teach you how to do waht you have been wanting to do all your life and be inspired and that will also inspire me.
OR possibly someone else can teach me!!
Have a great day and get INSPIRED!
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