oil portrait painting
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The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Devoted to work” stuck out to me in this quote. Since I moved, my normal dedication to my work has been seriously lacking. I mean, I’ve got two custom portraits almost finished, but other than that, I haven’t been painting much. As I wrote before, I’ve got sooo much work hanging over my head. Stuff that needs to get done, but I put it off another day, and then another. I keep thinking I need to crack open one of my art journals, and play. It will get the ball rolling, and I’ll be back to work in no time. There’s still so much I need to get done around the house before I can concentrate on creating again, tho. I haven’t even found time to locate an art journal, let alone play in one. 

I know I’m sounding like a broken record now, but my days are being eaten alive with trying to get moved in (still), unpacking boxes, throwing crap away that I should have tossed before the move. Plus, I’ve been doing house repairs/upkeep, and I’m in the middle of painting my new kitchen cabinets. What is it with me and kitchen cabinets that need painting? Ugh. I just painted the cabinets at my other house a year ago, and now these. It’s taking 3 coats of white to cover up the green paint underneath, but I’m getting there slowly. 

Harold sat there for the longest time,
admiring the new kitchen curtains I hung up.
🙂 
That’s my wittle Mama’s boy! 

The colors in this house don’t exactly match or suit my taste at all, so I’ll be painting over the living room (blue), bedroom (purple), and kitchen (green cabinets & trim, purple shelving). I’m also going to stain the untreated butcher block because every little water spill seeps quickly into the drawers below it. I didn’t realize how useless butcher block truly is..like, you’re not suppose to cut food on it because you’ll scratch it. I mean, seriously?? Whut? Good thing I didn’t toss out my wooden cutting boards, and plastic cutting mats, eh? I’m so practical that every time I look at the countertops I think, what a waste. It irks me to have an entire room full of something not useful to me. I guess butcher block is suppose to be pretty to look at, but I don’t find unfinished wood pleasing to the eye like some people do. I’d love to paint the countertops white, but I’m thinking of resale value, and will probably settle on staining it walnut to match the hardwood floors throughout the house.  

These paintings were priced at $85, but I’ve lowered them to only $35. I need to make room for new paintings this year, so my loss is your gain. You can find them here in my new Art Under $50 category. 

It’s kinda funny that I’ve said a few hundred times here on my blog that purple is my least favorite (or most hated) color, and now I live in a purple house. lol Karma will bite you in the ass, I swear. Be careful what you say. The universe heard me say “purple purple purple”, and it said “here’s a purple house for you. Now shut up, and have fun re-painting it.” hahaha 

The first couple days of living here, I felt a bit depressed opening my eyes to see purple bedroom walls, AND (I kid you not) ceiling. It felt like I was living inside a bad bruise. Purple is such a sad, dreary, ugly color to me..so sorry to those who like it, especially the previous owner of this house. I don’t mean to offend anyone (it is just a color, after all, and we can’t control what we find most pleasing to the eye..if we could, I’d start to like purple. Think of all the work it would save me), but I can’t wait to brighten up the room, and make it mine. Can you guess what color I’ll be using? 

New!! 
Bags,
notebooks,
greeting cards,
and pillows
available in my Etsy shop

Chewy loves playing in the snow

I think I’m going to wait a couple months until it warms up before I start painting the walls, tho. We’re having a real winter here this year, and man oh, man, the past couple weeks have been real alright. Lots of snow, freezing rain, and strong WIND. I normally like this kind of weather, but lately it hasn’t been doing much for me. I’ve been considering flipping my favorite season back to spring/summer. As much as I despise being too hot, I’m also starting to dislike the cold. It’s below zero right now, and it’s like a drafty icebox in here, even with the furnace coming on every 10 to 15 mins. Brr..not a good painting day when I can’t feel my fingers. There is a light at the end of the tunnel, however. Tomorrow is suppose to be 43F, so I’ll be outside basking in the sunshine..and by that I mean, I’ll be moving more boxes out to my shed. Oh, yeah. lol 

One last thing before I rush off to make some lemon ginger tea, so I can warm my icy fingers against the mug.. if you like doing jigsaw puzzles, Jigidi is a fun little site. I personally don’t have the patience it takes to do a jigsaw puzzle, but I love to share my art on this site. People are so appreciative, and leave me lovely comments sometimes. You will find my puzzles here. Don’t forget to follow me, so you’ll know when I update. 🙂 You can try to beat Suegorgo’s time of only 3 mins, 19 seconds..wow! Good luck!! I can’t even get the pieces spread out and sorted in that amount of time. 

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