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Corn

susan — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:08:24 +0000

From a photo, it really is this color. Honest!

Been awhile

susan — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:58:55 +0000

I should make excuses for not posting so long. My dog ate it! I’ve been involved with HOST, the Haywood Open Studio Tour, Oct. 2 & 3. We have finished the work on Sleeping Stones Gallery. Now to find artists to show for two days. I’m hoping for an interesting mix of works.

beyond Xeriscape

susan — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:41:08 +0000

I’m letting the panels Xeriscape percolate. In the meantime, I’m working on these small paintings.

fine tuning

susan — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:21:07 +0000

I’m doing small adjustments now. Then comes a period of “percolating” . I live w/ the painting and decide whether it’s done of not. Gregg can be a great help, he will say “It’s not done” and it makes me ponder what else I might do. Conversly, sometimes he says “It’s done”, and something nags at me. Ultimately it’s my call. Some paintings may be allowed to exist for awhile, but one day I paint more, or over them, because they didn’t WOW me.

Xeriscape

susan — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:33:09 +0000

We saw a film on the typeface Helvetica. Until computers, most people didn’t even know the word typeface, now everyone has an opinion. I used a typeface to get the spacing correct for Xeriscape, but I don’t remember which one.

The book room at FCCA is mostly empty. Condensed books and Encyclopedias are left because even the library can’t get rid of them! Big book sale coming up at the end of the month. We are at a nexus when printed Encyclopedia are going to be recycled, not read.

agave

susan — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:20:20 +0000

It’s a painting, not a plant!

It’s just paint

susan — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:12:58 +0000

More paint.

Everything’s connected

susan — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:27:59 +0000

An idea is sprouting. It is coming from origami, Chemo Today, abstract painting, acrylic painting and death. In Chemo Today I made small square boxes and called them prayer boxes. Floating squares in my paintings also represent prayers. There has been a lot of death around us. So this pink pyramid is an early try. The white pyramid was working out how to make a pyramid. My idea is to do a series of reliquaries, for the people we have lost. However it may be too sad. Gregg and I cried as we thought of the stuff that might remind us of my Dad. An old pickup filled with tools, pecan pickers, PVC fittings, a chunk of concrete and a few empty beer cans. No matter what, they will give me plenty of room to “speriment”. I have found out that it is not easy to make and equilateral triangle. I made me a 60 degree angle, and I can get close.

progress slows

susan — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:38:32 +0000

The first couple of days seem like a great leap forward because you cover up all of the white of the support. Every little bit adds up, and someday I’ll have a painting!

Xeriscape

susan — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:34:46 +0000

This is a good start, I think.