Creating my Own Reality

I've been doing my painting on the kitchen table.  This means two things:

1: no eating at the kitchen table  (I don't consider this a problem because it also means: no cooking in the kitchen).

2: The light from the fixture above the table is great for eating and homework, but not so good for painting.

So I rescued my little ott light from the art table corner of the family room and set it up.  Ahhh... much better.

I was having a little trouble getting the color right for the flower.  The photo is more pink and the flower is more orange.  Of course, I don't have to do either color (I could make it purple, if I was so inclined), but I like the color of the flowers.

They are pale peach during the winter when they grow inside; but in the extreme heat we are currently experiencing, they are a lovely shade of dark pinkish orange.  So I brought in a flower and played around with the inks until I had a color I liked -- somewhere in between the photo and reality.  

I think it is ready for the needle -- I have to suppress the urge to keep adding more paint because I can do so much more with thread.  

And Rosie after her walk.  In case if anyone was wondering if it is hot here...

Stop Stressing

And do something!  This should be my new motto! 

I really wanted to get started on my "Wild Thing" piece, but all my photos, drawings, ideas, and inspiration are buried on my original hard drive.  I can get to them, but it takes gyrations that I'm just not up to right now.  And I have it on good authority that my computer will be back to normal (whatever that is) within a week or two at most.So I don't want to do anything that will change things over to the hard drive I'm using right now.  Also, this computer is maddeningly sloooooow and I'm just a wee bit spoiled, I suppose.

So I took this photo in my garden yesterday.

And these supplies.

And a tiny bit of what's left of my precious PFD fabric and did this.  Not a bad start, is it?