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Long Days & Shadows @ 09:14 am
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Whew! I did it. I survived another school year. My best pal Matt says that I up the stakes every year in order to challenge myself. This year was extreme even for me. Our Co-operative painting Saturday was April 15th. This gave us five, count'em, five weeks to finish six paintings. Two of these gems were HUGE.
WHAT WAS I THINKING?
Clearly, I wasn't. I'd love to post some of the snaps, but, ahem, if you are reading this and know me well, you also know why I can't.
Soooo... you'll have to take my word on it. They turned out nice. The painting that kicked my behind was an art nouveau Mucha. I clocked in nearly 120 hours on this beauty and had time allowed, I would have liked another 30 to finish her properly.
Yesterday evening I went to school and took down the paintings and all the art exhibit. After I donated hundreds of hours, I stand amazed at the audacity of some parents. REALLY. In the past five weeks, I've made about a dozen extra trips from my home in Burlington to Taylor Mill. I averaged 70 hours a week of work towards this exhibit. NO other program offers this. NONE. I want the kids to have a feeling for what it is like to have an art exhibit in a gallery. I also want their work matted and ready to take to local fairs for competition later this summer. Of course, this is also my business, but I don't charge for any of this stuff. It's a labor of love and I am the taskmaster that creates this havoc. I blame no one but me for it. Furthermore, I have loads of others that help and make it possible for me to enter into this crazy time of year and hover there for weeks. I'm not complaining about what I've done. NOR do I need a lot of praise or even thanks. It's my bar and my standard. My prime satisfaction is in finishing it.
HOWEVER, when parents come in bitching that they've had to make ONE extra trip up to their NEIGHBORHOOD school to retrieve their child's work, I stand in amazement. MTSCTL
All that aside, I'm in summer mode and making plans. A perpetual insomniac, I'm actually on a normal schedule. I fall asleep at around 11:30 or midnight and I've been up with sun at around 5:30. Weird to be normal. Let's see how long it will last, shall we?
I have many pet projects on my to-do list; knitting, reading, gardening, working on my cookbook that I've been writing, well, er...since God was a boy. I want to rid myself of massive amounts of clutter and explore the world of hosting a yard sale. I want to work in earnest at my photography and enjoying my camera. Organizing my photos would be in order, too. I also have a still life I want to paint -- since it's been ages since I worked on something original and my own. Matt and I are planning on a trip to Ashland this month. It's a little slice of heaven sitting on his Mother's back patio, wine glass and cigar at hand -- enjoying the quiet of her peaceful garden. Finally, with the year nearly half gone, I'd like to catch up on designing the first few months of this year's Doom & Gloom Calendar. It would be a lovely change to not enter into the Christmas season with that time eater on my plate. So, there you have it, my summer plans. By the grace of God, I'm hoping to dive in and accomplish a lot.
I hope you, DR, are enjoying these long days and having a few cool shadows for respite from the heat.
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