As I added more paint, I dropped some letters. I live in a rain forest, so it might seem strange to do a series on Xeriscape. I strongly believe that people need to pay attention to the plants that thrive in their region without insane irrigation.
Open studio tour
Thanks to everyone that ventured out for the Haywood Open Studio Tour. We met some interesting people, and they got to see what Fines Creek school has to offer in terms of artist’s space.
new gallery space
We are hanging our first show in Sleeping Stones Gallery. It’s a classroom next to my studio. These are huge classrooms off of the Fines Creek Gym. The windows are 8 ft. tall. Go to haywoodarts.org for a map for the HOST this Sat. and Sun.
Words, words
This is a small, 16″x20″ , painting on canvas of the word Xeriscape. I started w/ the idea of just using graphite and white paint. I saw a beautiful painting that was done that way when the artist was desperately poor. I have many tubes of many colors, and I can’t resist. I did go back into some wet paint w/ vine charcoal. The trick there is to decide how much mixing I wanted to do. I also did some pouring. As I continue to find out, more paint is better!
Corn
From a photo, it really is this color. Honest!
Been awhile
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
I’m letting the panels Xeriscape percolate. In the meantime, I’m working on these small paintings.
fine tuning
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
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
It’s a painting, not a plant!