This is not Thursday

An Artists' Life

I just noticed that it looks as though ZZ the Lionhearted and Tuna Not were posted last Wednesday. Well date that not! It was yesterday, late, after a whole lot of the usual nonsense I have to go through of resizing the original 25 paintings I did. They were all too large for Blogger, something Lucky figured out for me, & after I resized them they post with the date of the painting, not the post. Well, so be it.

People have asked me about this abstract painting stuff and how long does it take; things like that. Do I have a plan? Well, it takes as long as it takes, sometimes they are done so fast I blink, and sometimes so slowly I am exhausted and sick of them, but still have to finish because I want to see the outcome myself. So I guess my plan is to finish a painting that I will be happy with. How is that? At the same time I always hope the viewer will enjoy the painting too.

For a very long time I didn't paint any objects at all, much like a couple of these abstracts. I like calling them 'Colorpots' now. I think I just made that up but there is nothing I have ever made up that turns out that way. Nothing new under the sun, etc. But now I am adding abstract fish and kids and stuff. It is fun, and I try to put things in that our grandchildren will like. And possibly even recognize. As I mentioned earlier, they seem to know what the abstract ones are right away. And I like to decorate their stories.