Filed under: Fleeting thoughts... | Tags: Christmas, Christmas tree, Dust bunny, Holiday
Okay. Because I’m a strange person, we have a “tradition” of getting a real Christmas tree one year, and then using my vintage fake tree another year. This has not been without controversy. My stepkids refuse to acknowledge my supercoolvintagealuminumsparkly tree as a “tree”. I can’t remember what they call it, but “tree” is not permitted.
Now, I ask you…is THAT really sooooo wrong??? Look how festive and BEDAZZLED it is! (You know you want one.)
December is one of those months that I look forward to, and yet loathe. The holiday nonsense…organizing my son’s birthday party…etc. It’s enough to make my gray hairs breed with reckless abandon. I keep yelling at them to “quit it!”, but to no avail. Nobody listens to me around here anymore. Perhaps it’s my nagging tone of voice, or my incessant whining? Not sure…I’ll get back to you on that. I SAID, “I’LL GET BACK TO YOU ON THAT.”
(aren’t you glad that you don’t live here???)
Despite my holiday angst, check out the favor bags that I started to make for said party:
Not bad, huh? THIS is what I do instead of housework. (Sorry, honey!) Housework is tedious, mind-numbing and soul destroying. Making tyrannosaurus favor bags is uplifting, rejuvenating, and fun. BTW, my son asked “why roar?” WHAT’S WRONG WITH ROAR? He’s soooo nit-picky. I expected an “ooh” and “ahh”, not a scowl. When will I learn that the response that I hope from my son is never what I receive? Sigh. At least he hasn’t started criticizing my lack of housekeeping skills…
This post is not going to be long, as a dust bunny is tapping me on the shoulder and asking when I’m going to get off of the computer. Sheesh! They’re so pushy…
So I didn’t want to bore you with my domestic nonsense ramblings. As a result, I’ve found a few artists that I think that you should check out. I tried to find people who have a similar aesthetic to my own. Why? Because that’s how I learn things. You didn’t think that I was going to draw smashed up pears forever did you? (The correct answer is, “no, of COURSE not…only a moron would do THAT.”) Hmm…maybe that’s not the answer I wanted.
Isn’t that lovely? Check out her work here. I love her series on dry leaves. Such beautiful forms. It’s really great.
Here’s another person who works with graphite:
Her work is pretty impressive all round. Please check out her website. She works in so many different media. Really amazing breadth and quality of work. I bask in her artistic virtuosity. I also bask in her ability to make a beautiful drawing from piles of laundry. I certainly have THAT subject matter at home! It tends to look more like the messy piles rather than the neat stacks…go figure. Maybe I’ll try to create a still life with my dust bunnies as a start…
In the meantime, you have a homework assignment of telling me about other FABULOUS artists that I should know. I don’t see any at Stop & Shop, so I need others to guide me to MORE than just the cracker aisle, which I always seem to lose.
Check out here what those of us who don’t live in NYC are missing (besides a good bagel and just about everything):
Did you watch the video???? If not…YOU MUST. I may set up something like this in our living room. It will entertain as well as distract from the general disarray…a win-win!
(our living room floor’s perpetual state…) See? We have art is the suburbs!!! Except we pronounce it “aht”, here in the Commonwealth…
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