Yes, I did promise that, didn't I. So, I painted a flower. Some of you may know that I don't particularly like to paint flowers or paintings of flowers in general. I like faces and I like things with character. Flowers are pretty, but they're just kind of common in the painting world. Yes, I know people are too, but at least people have faces and expressions and such differentiating characteristics. And with people, I tend to gravitate towards faces that are not traditionally beautiful. Traditional beauty can be a bit boring with its symmetry and all. Anyway, when I do paint flowers, I tend to go for the sunflower. It is a flower that does seem to have more character than many and it is pretty, but not too pretty and I can always sneak a face in it.
In non painting news, I had my friend, Amy over for movie night last night. We watched the last 4 hours of Pride and Prejudice (we both have seen it multiple times, so we can quote at it certain points) as we had watched the first two last week. I usually go to her house, but mine is clean enough to be presentable at the moment and her kids were with her (soon to be ex)husband. However, I was going to vacuum for her and ended up creating a vacuuming catastrophe. I think I either put my vacuum cleaner bag in wrong or it was defective. When I tried to vacuum, it had a great deal of suction, but I found it was all escaping out of the other end. It shook up a huge cloud of the Arm and Hammer powdery carpet stuff and dust which made me cough and cough and I was already coughing before the vacuuming. So, that was the end of that idea. I'll take a look at the vacuum cleaner bag again today, I just don't want to deal with another dust and powder cloud.
Again, I'm hungry after painting, but I think I'm going to go out and do the things that I have to do before I think about eating. I pigged out on pizza last night and didn't think I'd be hungry again. But, here I am...
Oh, and the scan of this painting is annoying. I hate how you can sometimes see the little square in the middle. That's the part of the canvas that doesn't have the wood frame. I think the light from the scanner seeps through that part and makes it lighter than the rest of the painting. There is a reason why a lot of people photograph their paintings rather than scanning them.
2 comments:
I love your sunflower....you can paint flowers any day as far as I'm concerned...you do a beautiful job.
I've had the same thing happen to me with the vacuum...maybe that's why I avoid vacuuming. ;-) That and dusting.
Just ate at Biaggi's for some birthday dinners and afterwards walked over to Trader Joe's. It was busy as usual. Love that store.
I love the sunflower too and should show it to my sunflower painting as they are related after all being painted by the same artist. I am sorry to hear of vacuuming disaster and am glad you survived. Pride and Prejudice sounds great. Quoting from that is a skill I'm certain not many can claim. Glad you enjoyed pigging on pizza--pizza is such a great thing to pig on. I heart pizza.
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