Monday, December 19, 2011
Gazpacho...garlic bread, red wine.....mmmmm good, practicing my alphabet, journaling and calligraphy tonight, went for walk up to the top of mountain this morning, then down the hill to town for una cafe con leche...practicing my Spanish as well all the time (but I can not do this in Espanol)....friends gave me some medicine for my annoying cough, enjoying my new BOSE speakers, now that I have the cables to re-charge them with...had a tour of Pat & Willy's orchid collection...I think I changed my clother 5 times today, one for morning chills, then took off sweats, put a skirt on, then changed to go to town, then back and put more comfy clothes on to paint in, now PJ's..typical day in the life of me.....here in paradise....gazpacho was deliciouso. I brought my soup blender down here with me along with my garlic press. I know, pathetic but I am here for 3 months...we have the prayer flags up in the studio...and I am still in a bit of chaos here, painting outdoors and indoors, monotypes in the back studio and a gigantic easel with beginnings of paintings, a huge nest is my still life, and looking for more kinds of nests, (sticks and stones) for this theme, lets see where it will take me....started thinking about last year and this is actually a really good place to see the unusual nests for my inspiration, one I found made with horse hair, another made of just dry grasses, another, of this paper-like material, another looks like fungi, another in geometric patterns..."I am a bird, I am a bee", ...OMG, the study of nests is becoming an obsession. Is that ok? Yes Lori it is ok. Get out of your rut and explore some new paths in your painting. I have to have these talks with myself..the life of an artist...everything has a purpose ya know! mmmmmmm..
