Painting as I see it.
Sorry for the interruption, but it isn’t my fault! I wish these knotheads would solve healthcare instead of sabotaging my website. Although it does illustrate one of my strongest beliefs. There are creators or destroyers. Even tho I don’t like destroyers, they do exist. I am thankful that I have the time and energy to be a creator.
I’ve started the three panels. Today I concentrated on one. Yesterday I was reintroduced to art quilts. It got me thinking.
Cally is my dog. She’s checking out the panels. I have the image for this side, at least. It’s a collage of flowers. I looked at my Diebenkorn book again. Robert Hughes said he was influenced by Matisse. How much, and how much does it matter?
I’m doing flowers, a familiar and favorite subject,
to get comfortable in my new studio.
For my BD I got two surprises. One was good, a new and much bigger studio. The other was bad. North Koreans or someone hijacked my website and filled it with malware. So Google slapped a big red banner across it that said ‘Attack Sight”. Luckily Gregg could fix it and Forrest got Google to check it and take it off the EVIL list.
I like my new studio. I’ve screwed my back up and have been working at 1/2 power. Maybe next week you’ll start seeing some new work. I have three panels and am contemplating a triptych or a screen.
I also realized that it’s about time to do another self portrait.
Yeah, I got my site back!
A flowers purpose is to attract attention. 
The CDC estimates that half of all Americans do NOT have health insurance. If competition is a basic tenet of capitalism, what do private insurers fear? And if they are so good at insurance, why are half of all Americans exposed to financial disaster from any health issue? Sure you make more profit off of the young and healthy, but isn’t the idea of insurance to spread the risk?
I’m a color fanatic, so this is very difficult for me. Good for me like exercise, but not easy. Ah, well, better to stretch and try than to shrivel up and be stuck in a cramped comfort zone.
I am getting close to finishing this screen. I’ve learned a lot and I like the panels. The next one is going to be three panels. The theme, so far, is Winter-Summer. Each side must relate to the other, but be different enough that you care to see either side. The book idea is simmering on the back burner. I alternate between boldly moving forward with big works to shrinking and hiding, very much like the economy. Boy, this sure isn’t the golden years I imagined! So maybe like Microsoft, instead of thinking of these times as a negative, I will just obfuscate and call it a feature!
Add this to hairbrained GOP solutions for health care. HAARM.org
I can’t maintain a high degree of pissed offedness for long. It’s just not worth it. 