Had a really successful day painting yesterday, and now I'm totally spent. Slept completely and heavily through the night and was so surprised when the alarm went off at 5am...it felt as if i'd just blinked my eyes. Kate usually gets me up at 3 to go potty (that is one of my old weimaraners, if you follow this blog you will certainly see paintings of her), i wonder if she tried but i was so dead to the world she gave up. that would be a first. I'm working on a series of nine paintings entitled "A Compendium of Heroines"...each painting looks like a page torn from a children's book, a very old-fashioned children's book, more like a fairy tale with mystery and darkness and things that need to be solved and possible dangers on the hero's journey, except all the heroes are girls. A world populated with talking animals and nature figure heavily, just like in my world :) Last night i finished the second set of three and i just had my groove on. I stopped once briefly to eat some oatmeal (right now it has to be steel cut oats with walnuts and dried cranberries and maple syrup), and then i stopped for a while to eat dinner with my husband. he watched movies while i kept painting and
listening to the movies and frequently asking him to narrate, which could be completely annoying under certain circumstances, but my husband is very patient. It was a thriller so there wasn't a lot of dialogue and the music would change and mostly i could follow based on that...maybe you're not surprised to hear that the final third of a thriller involves lots of high drama soundtrack and the actors grunting a lot. So i would say "What just happened?" and eric would say "Someone just walked behind the car and she didn't see them...it's foggy." Now that i think of it, the movie was probably much more interesting broken down and digested by my husband and relayed to me, like watching a movie through morse code.
I'm having a blast making bunches of little love themed paintings. No classic romantic love imagery, but love through a different lense (okay, when it comes to dogs and cats and ponies i am probably more schmaltzy than most greeting cards out there; unabashedly smitten with the creatures). I'm especially enjoying the "Harpy Love" series. I think women should embrace their inner harpy and anyone lucky enough to be partnered with a harpy should just submit. These paintings have me penciling out some designs for a series of greeting cards featuring harpy love. Does anyone out there know of a greeting card company that would be interested in printing these? I am pondering whether i should even consider submitting them to the usual suspects: "Harpy Birthday" "Embrace your Inner Harpy". More about harpies tomorrow and my association with a fabulous new feminist blog that features my work on their banner, with a credit and link to my website and etsy shop! yay!
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