mom leaves for seventeen days in the US tomorrow morning…hmmm, what shall i do first? run around naked? (nearly am already, what with this heat) eat crackers in the livingroom? (no biggie, she does that already) have a boy over? (better odds on pigs flying)
sadly, it is organizing and cleaning and furniture rearranging that i am looking forward to. i really gotta find a boy to have over.
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Heavy skies, Port Vaubon, oil pastel and pen and ink on heavy paper, 20" x 25", SOLD
finished this late last night, dreaming of seeing such another overcast, promise-of-rain day soon… -
only an important errand would send me out into the blistering sun today…i need a large poster mailing tube so mom can bring home a number of my pieces as requested…
moi: excusez moi, svp, madame, je cherche un…un…um, continues like so in bumbling french: i need a thing like a box, but not a box, it's a circle instead and it goes into the mail but it's long and i have want to fly a painting to the usa and i don't know the word in french…(good god, what IS the french word for 'tube'?!?)
madame: une tube?
moi: bien sur, une tube. -
…and he loved that beer. i've finished his portrait, had to work from a series of photos i was able to take while pretending to fiddle with the camera on the table top (flash off)..pity i couldn't work from life this time, but i just had to paint him. i've never done a portrait before (except that little one of the back of mom's head and the still-unfinished self-portrait)
as for the finished painting, Ale, acrylic and charcoal on paper, 20" x 25"; i alternate between loving it and loathing it. -
;wueownnndm,fnaoieuwoi..rose..iweutiow…another bottle o rose.,jfwlkeuiu..tequilla?.jklje…an italian boy.jlkweoiu..mmoreitalianboys.lk..ajdiditrytospeakitalian?!?
aksjoiut…back to bed -
mom actually made frozen buillion cups for Ruby today because she read in Reader's Digest (5 euros!) that it's a "cool treat for dogs suffering in summer heat". there are just so many funny things to be said about that. as the record heat continues, we are all suffering. pup-sicle anyone?
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mom tries on her new foul-weather gear in preparation for her week-long women-only sailing course with SeaSense. she leaves for the USA next Wednesday, starts her "cruise" on the 16th departing from Maine (hence the intense gear). she's hoping to find her inner-sailing-bitch.
i've never seen anyone so excited to put on a Santa costume in 90 degree heat. -
finally finished this one up today, Deck plans/Monaco. acrylic and oil pastel on heavy paper, 20" x 25"
worked from some sketches and photos i was able to get a few weeks back…Miss Liz kindly let me tag along when she went to take care of her bosses second (or third or fourth?!) home in Monaco, an apt. right on the harbor, the balcony had a direct bird's eye view of the boats. i've also, after much experimentation, found the right finish varnish..one that works for acrylic paints as well as the oil pastel, without smearing it. it reaks, but it works. -
i found the answer to Peg's question! (without using her own answer service) seems that the hot dish in question was named after the 19th century creator, not the 13th century cathedral.
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i got a kick out of Bill Bryson's insight, from an American's point of view, into England in Notes from a Small Island, particularly his ditty regarding the vast difference in the Tube map's depiction of London versus the actual geography of the city. i found it to be very true.
i am absolutely crazy about The Office. i watched the entire first series on DVD twice when i was house/dog-sitting at Rach's week before last. and then, on our van tour to Stonehenge/Salisbury/Bath, we actually drove by the town of Slough. i laugh to myself just thinking about that show, it's just like every office i've ever worked in. you must see it. again, love that BBC. and it's even better in person.
