Snowed last night, about an inch.
No school today – the island can’t function with any snow, which is rather sweet since it rarely snows out here. What I don’t like is having a million kids in my house – I’m just not a huge fan of the boys (younger than Lil) they’re rather rude and coarse. But more than that, today I actually feel like working, for the first time in weeks, and I don’t want anyone else around.
I love the shapes snow makes – like an iced cake.
The view outside my window.
Went to Ikea yesterday and bought tables and such for my new art studio. I’m moving back to the space over the garage – it isn’t huge but I need more room. I want to work on many things at once and I’m getting paint on everything in the house.
It scares me a bit how much I want to make art. It isn’t that I don’t want to do other things, I do but I want to make art more often and more passionately – although the novel has been whispering, too.
Abstract – mixed media on cheap water color paper, made in a class I took at
Patricia Sggebruch’s studio with some friends.
I received the first copy of my new book. It’s so beautiful and dense and the art, the art! I love holding it’s fat little shape and imagining women using it.
Thanksgiving was skipped in our house. We moved furniture, went to see The Queen, ate strange foods. I’m in a massive cleaning, giving away and organizing phase. Lilly got old bed because I got MY NEW SPRING AIR MATTRESS. Oh my god, it feels like the cliched idea of how heaven must feel – all cloudy and marshmallow yet reassuring. My friend Ann came over to lounge on it and talked and played with our dogs. Had to buy new sheets though as it is super duper deep but hey, who minds buying new sheets?
Been reading Rilke and just finished the delightful Broken for You – if you haven’t read it, it’s the perfect vacation read. A little too neat yet it works and is a great, great novel. I’d love to meet the author, she lives in Seattle and the book is set there.
Off to do a pod cast and get a bunch of others things finished… before November 30th and the beginning of my month off, which commences with my birthday!!!!!
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3 responses so far ↓
1 Anne in Virginia Nov 29, 2006
Hi, Jen,
Just want to wish you a happy birthday and a restorative month off that’s filled with exactly what you need to thrive. I’m looking forward to the release of The Life Organizer and seeing your new Web site. We’ll all be looking forward to more of your wisdom in 2007. Can it really be only a month away?
2 Tuxlux Nov 29, 2006
Jen,
Isn’t it amazing how the “wordless” creativity calls you in? After thrashing for months with writing, I found myself in my art studio space ripping through projects with glee. Sometimes I think creativity needs a change.
I wanted to also send you this link. Golden is a brand name. They make paint, gel mediums,and specialty mediums. I really like their products and they are available at the large chain craft/art stores.
They have artists teaching local classes on color mixing and the various mediums. The “Golden lecture” is a fabulous class, they bring all their products and you get to play and see what you love for the class price.
They make a product called “Tar Gel”. That isn’t made of tar. They created it for the movie “Pollock” so the actors could use an acrylic medium that would flow the way old style oil paints would. The stuff tints, and lays in layers and does all sorts of cool stuff in collages.
Their link for classes in the North West is:
http://www.goldenpaints.com/artist/wap/artist.php?uid=8
Enjoy the dive into the paint and collage.
From one craft junkie to another,
Enjoy your birthday and break!
Vixx
3 Karen Dec 4, 2006
Hi, Jen,
Happy Birthday! I keep coming back to this piece of art. I can’t remember the last time this has happened, particularly with abstract art, but there is something in the color, shape and movement of this piece that so speaks to me. I can imagine it hanging on my wall and my just sitting in front of it, gazing at it. Hey, ever thought of making prints of your art? Remember, I am first in line for this one!
All the best to you for a glorious year ahead,
Karen