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Is it the weekend yet?
Dec. 5th, 2003 11:06 amNo?
Damn.
Bored, bored, bored. And cold. Did I mention cold? The wind is a sonofabitch today.
I'm supposed to be designing the new landscaping for the addition onto the Children's Center. To motivate myself, I told the lady over there I'd bring some drawings to her next week. I've got one possible (and the one I'd prefer) more or less done. It'd be much easier to landscape the Children's Center if it weren't for those damn kids. Nothing poisonous (duh), nothing prickly, nothing with seeds they can swallow or put up noses or into ears. Oh, but do include things with color and texture and neat shapes for the kids to experience.
My suggestion of painted plywood cutouts was not approved.
I plan to try very hard to talk the lady in charge of the Children's Center to put the landscaping OUTSIDE the playground fences. That would be so much easier for grounds to maintain, not to mention how much less toddler-damage would occur. She's almost desperate for some kind of shade on the playgrounds, so I might have to put stuff inside anyway. If we could get bigger gates in the fence, we could move larger trees in, and they'd have a better chance of surviving the toddlers, but the gates as they are will only allow the scooter, the golf cart, and the small mower through. The gold cart can only move a 2" b&b tree, and while the scooter could carry a bigger one, I don't want to plant or move a larger tree by hand.
Didn't do much art stuff last night. Went to rehearsal, came home, still feeling all cold and cranky (can we say "PMS", boys and girls?). Touched up the metallic leaf prints on the black cardstock, cut apart the strawberry leaf prints, and signed and dated both sets. Started sketching some more of the Turkish cloud scrolls for another set of cards (black inkwork, white inside the pattern, sky blue background). With a great exercise of my sleepy will, I resisted starting another set of cards last night, but I had this wonderful idea, two ideas really....the first is for a set with Ottoman tulip designs, on simple backgrounds. The other is for a floral arrangement, same period and style, that covered multiple cards and was cut apart. I've achieved some neat effects doing that so far.
May not silkscreen the rangoli-in-a-box interiors after all. The ATC I did by just drawing glue lines with a toothpick turned out decent. I may try one tonight and see. By's working late, it's First Friday night, and he's working in the gallery tomorrow afternoon.
I've made a date with myself for tomorrow night: I'm going to curl up in my chair with a warm blanket and a big mug of tea and knit all evening. Maybe make some soup. And maybe have a cat on my lap (the wee ones are knitting-friendly if they're tired enough).
Damn.
Bored, bored, bored. And cold. Did I mention cold? The wind is a sonofabitch today.
I'm supposed to be designing the new landscaping for the addition onto the Children's Center. To motivate myself, I told the lady over there I'd bring some drawings to her next week. I've got one possible (and the one I'd prefer) more or less done. It'd be much easier to landscape the Children's Center if it weren't for those damn kids. Nothing poisonous (duh), nothing prickly, nothing with seeds they can swallow or put up noses or into ears. Oh, but do include things with color and texture and neat shapes for the kids to experience.
My suggestion of painted plywood cutouts was not approved.
I plan to try very hard to talk the lady in charge of the Children's Center to put the landscaping OUTSIDE the playground fences. That would be so much easier for grounds to maintain, not to mention how much less toddler-damage would occur. She's almost desperate for some kind of shade on the playgrounds, so I might have to put stuff inside anyway. If we could get bigger gates in the fence, we could move larger trees in, and they'd have a better chance of surviving the toddlers, but the gates as they are will only allow the scooter, the golf cart, and the small mower through. The gold cart can only move a 2" b&b tree, and while the scooter could carry a bigger one, I don't want to plant or move a larger tree by hand.
Didn't do much art stuff last night. Went to rehearsal, came home, still feeling all cold and cranky (can we say "PMS", boys and girls?). Touched up the metallic leaf prints on the black cardstock, cut apart the strawberry leaf prints, and signed and dated both sets. Started sketching some more of the Turkish cloud scrolls for another set of cards (black inkwork, white inside the pattern, sky blue background). With a great exercise of my sleepy will, I resisted starting another set of cards last night, but I had this wonderful idea, two ideas really....the first is for a set with Ottoman tulip designs, on simple backgrounds. The other is for a floral arrangement, same period and style, that covered multiple cards and was cut apart. I've achieved some neat effects doing that so far.
May not silkscreen the rangoli-in-a-box interiors after all. The ATC I did by just drawing glue lines with a toothpick turned out decent. I may try one tonight and see. By's working late, it's First Friday night, and he's working in the gallery tomorrow afternoon.
I've made a date with myself for tomorrow night: I'm going to curl up in my chair with a warm blanket and a big mug of tea and knit all evening. Maybe make some soup. And maybe have a cat on my lap (the wee ones are knitting-friendly if they're tired enough).
