I’m doing flowers, a familiar and favorite subject,
to get comfortable in my new studio.
I’m back!
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!
Yucca blossom
A flowers purpose is to attract attention. 
das Uninsured
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?
Mullein
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.
A Good Marriage-Stonewall
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!
HAARM
Add this to hairbrained GOP solutions for health care. HAARM.org
balance
I can’t maintain a high degree of pissed offedness for long. It’s just not worth it. 
underpainting
I know this looks “cartoony” now. I was looking at Matisse’s cutouts, and borrowed some of his colors and the idea of layering colors that are very close over each other. The mask is an image I’ve used often. I’m quite sure that there will be spattering and interrruptions. And when it’s all said and done, well, theoretically, we’ll have a painting.
Uninsured
Last year we made $12,000 and paid $8,000 in health insurance premiums. In Dec. we ran out of money and had to cancel the ins. and borrow money from Forrest. Not a position we ever expected to be in. Finally things are improving and we went back to BCBSNC. Even with jacking up the deductible to $5400 and doing a HSA, they won’t insure us. If competition is the backbone of American finance, what are the health insurance companies scared of? The GOP and naysayers can blame the unisured as pariahs on the economy. So here’s a good GOP solution. “US establishes death camps for das uninsured. SC GOP Spokeswoman says” With the price of gold, this is a fiscally responsible plan.”