What a Find!
Last week I was out marketing my notecards and did ok. Sold 4 each of 27 different designs to one shop and 6 each of 6 designs to another shop. On my way home, I passed the local hazardous waste drop-off place. It’s where you can take things like unused paint and other chemicals for proper disposal, AND you can get totally free paint in these huge 5 gallon buckets. Of course you can’t “order” a specific color, but still, the entire inside of my home was painted with this free paint. Even though I don’t need any five gallon buckets of paint, I decided to zip in and see what was available, one of those spur of the moment decisions.
WELL……..you’ll never guess what I found! 60 jars of ArtDeco paint of all varieties. For an artist, this was like finding diamonds in the coal heap. I’d never heard of this paint before, so when I got home I looked them up online. OMG! This is wonderful stuff, and had I purchased it thru the online store, most of it was $9.99 a jar. Let’s see……$600 worth of paint for FREE! How blessed am I?
I spent the entire week-end playing with this new paint, and posted below are just a few of the creations I came up with. The one is an Altoids box that was sitting on my desk. Hey, recycling is good! The other, the one with the dark green leaf (made using a stencil) is painted on a 5 x 7 canvas board. Have no clue what I’ll do with all these new pieces of art now, but geesh, what a fun way to spend a long week-end.
New paint discovery
Original Gouache Painting: “The Teddy Bear Sentinels”
This gouache (opaque watercolor) painting is of my son. One night, when he was little, I went into his room to make certain he was covered up and sleeping peacefully. He was, and………I felt as if I was being watched! All those eyes staring at me! All his precious teddy bears (the sentinels!) gathered around this little boy, in his red and white seersucker jammies and baseball cap, as if they were guarding him through the night. Adam is an adult now, and I still hope he has guardians (of a higher level than teddy bears) watching out for him all the time, not just when he’s sleeping.
