What I've Been Doing For a Month, And Some Birds

Moving. I can't believe it's taken a month to move a household. The inside stuff from the old house to the new garage, and then into the house. The old garage to the new garage. And I still need to get the POD with all the really good stuff soon. If they will deliver it to the new house street and then come pick it up soon, because I'm still waiting for the sidewalk and street to get finished.

Today, I am home sick because somewhere along the way in the past four weeks, I overdid it. Probably more than once or twice. Then I got on a plane and in my exhausted and stressed out place, got strep throat. Actually, I felt pretty unstressed out by the time I went to LA last week. I was feeling pretty good at having gotten through the previous three weeks alive and started to relax a bit. That's how the strep got in - I let the guard rails of my immune system down and it snuck right in.

I don't like birds - in art, or in real life. I'm going through a phase right now my art friend Kristine and I call "Put a Bird On It." I can suffer the birds if they are a parody on my own work, which is interesting because I'm not exactly standing there explaining to viewers that the bird(s) are not serious. But that is another blog.

Here are photos I took out my new front window today. These particular birds (crows?) just love my front yard. There were thousands of them. Okay, well at least a hundred...and they were interesting, if also a bit scary.

Last BAN @ 739

I was moving yesterday, from one house to another. Actually, just my stuff got moved, and not even all of it. I moved the house contents, but the garage/studio at the old place will have to be moved later, after the new garage has been painted.

Even though I was in the midst of cleaning toilets, mopping floors, patching paint, painting patches, and getting every last bit of stuff out of the old house, I kept to having BAN. We sat and tore paper and collaged. I was dead tired and don't remember feeling too inspired, so in a sense, it was a better Bad Art Night for me - what I was creating was pretty bad.

RPTP Photo was here and brought her immense range of markers. I thought how she had some of the pulled out was beautiful and fascinating.

BAN will reappear in a new location in three-ish weeks. Stay tuned, kids!

A Deck With a View

From my new roof deck. What a beautiful day.

Not Bad Art Night, But We Did BA Anyway

Thanks to the instructions and inspiration in Water Paper Paint by Heather Smith Jones, I did some good art tonight with my friend KDub.

By Kdub. Love her work!