Friday

Everything I touched today turned to crap. Dark. Bleak. (I know, what a cop out.) A landscape I was working on became too stiff, so I loaded it up with modeling paste to get some texture and then some ugly left over paint--yuck. Maybe my frugality isn't conducive to being a real artist. To be able to paint like Van Gogh, no regard for the cost of the paint--slather it on like butter--Yeah!--that's the way to do it. My Mary Todd Beam piece is starting to come together, I think. It's so hard to tell with an abstract, though. How do you know when it's done????? I guess when you think it is, but that's my problem. I never seem to think something I'm working on is perfect and should not be fooled with any more. Picasso could crank them out and never look back. Maybe that's what the genius is all about--a non-obsessive personality or Adult Attention Deficit Disorder (plus being a wonderful artistic designer). Tomorrow I'm going to load up a palette with paint (oil paint so I won't have to worry about it drying out) and really get into it, expense be damned. Moyers had a really good piece on tonight about today's second gilded age and it was certainly depressing. Where is Franklin Roosevelt (or Eleanor Roosevelt, for that matter) when you need him/her/them? This whole financial inequality thing is really getting to me and even though I feel the pain at the grocery store and gas pump, I know many others are feeling it worse. I hope Obama can clearly state a position on our problem and what he can do to solve it. Very sad about Tim Russert. RIP--what a shock and we'll miss him very much.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Gayle
You're blog is looking quite nice.
I saw Moyer's too - so depressing. Paul Krugman had a similar article in todays paper. I guess when paint gets to expensive, you'll have to start making you're own before long.
I was so shocked about Tim Russert.
Kathy

Gayle Bell said...

Hey Kathy,
Thanks for the compliment. I've been working on it pretty steadily. Not getting many paintings completed, but, strangely, the blog is kind of therapeutic in the way of venting about all the crap you have to put up with in life. I guess I would have kept a dairy before now if I would have known that. At least I got a painting completed today, but it's very small--and not abstract. At least I know when to quit.
Gayle