Boring....

My Garden, 2008, 6x6, Oil on Gessobord

Prepare yourself for a super boring post. I am busy all of a sudden with all kinds of different things; cleaning up my studio, finishing some of the figures (pictures soon, although I am finding that they look AWFUL when they are photographed), preparing for a get together this weekend, and other odds and ends. Basically it all adds up to a lot of puttering.

The initial hubbub concerning The Fine Art Department and the Small Art Showcase has quieted down. The traffic there has been great thanks to Jeanne's mass email, the comment I left on the Huffington Post, the mention by my friend from Philadelphia, Cecily, and the links posted by participating artists as well as a few other art bloggers. Thanks everyone! Now the challenge will be to get those visitors to keep coming back to do some shopping. I will keep waving my magic wand from up here on the farm, surely that will do the trick. heh.

I am also considering taking Ellen up on her challenge to post every day for the entire month of December. I see that there is an organization to join, which I'll probably skip, and I also think it might get pretty boring here in Tracyland if I actually write about it every day. Whatchya think? Careful about encouraging me to do it, you may learn more than you ever wanted to know about chickens, our cats, dogs and possibly the local weather too.

On the other hand, if I know that I will have to report on something here, that may encourage me to paint more than I would otherwise. Hmmm.

Lazy Days

I noticed today that most of my recent posts have not had much to do with art or painting. That's because I haven't been doing much of anything for the last few weeks, let alone painting. I have been puttering around in my new studio, gessoing some paper to do some figure studies on, gradually sorting through the last of my most crappiest junk in the old studio, which is looking pretty bleak and lonely these days:

Hard to believe now that I painted at least a thousand paintings in this spot:

Anyway, this morning I went and picked 12lbs of blueberries at a local pick your own blueberry farm. Last year the kids went with me, but this year there was a mutiny and no one would come along. So I enjoyed the quiet solitude of doing something so mundane that I was able to figure out how to solve many of the world's problems (o, if anyone would ever pay attention to what I say!) in the 2 hours I was there.

I think the girls and I will go and buy their school supplies this week which will be a real break with tradition, which is to usually get them the day before school starts. And I will try to finish up cleaning out the old studio so that I can get the walls painted next week.

Don't expect much art here for awhile I guess. I am enjoying a bit of a break from the mad dash to finish paintings that need to ship out asap.

On deck for tomorrow: Another super exciting post about our vegetable garden.