Elizabeth became queen the year I was born. Now, I feel as if a part of my past is gone. It feels odd to grieve the loss of someone I don’t know. The only other time I’ve experienced grief at the passing of someone I don’t know is when Pete Seeger died. I saw bits and pieces of the queen’s funeral this morning and wondered about so much pageantry. How does one practice for such an event? How does one even know what to do in such and event? How does one practice the events surrounding the death of a parent or grandparent? Yet they all seemed to know what to do and when to do it. The other reaction I had is the notion of a corpse hanging around for 10 days. You can’t have a body hang around too long. Bury it before it starts to stink.
I wish I could sew like the queen’s dressmaker.
I take a painting class and am utterly unable to walk into the painting studio without getting paint all over me. I need crappy clothes for this class. The only pair of jeans I have is falling apart. The rest of my slacks are dress slacks. Before I can sell my designs in my Spoonflower shop ttps://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/deb_thuman I have to have the designs proofed. I can put 42 6″ x 6″ designs on a yard of fabric. This has caused a pile of proof yards to accumulate. I needed something to do with all this fabric.
The paint doesn’t show on these pants. I’m working on a second pair. I wanted to make a top out of proofs, but I haven’t decided what I want to make. Scrub tops are comfortable and I wouldn’t have to wear a bra, but I don’t think I want to wander around looking like a psychedelic health care worker.
I’ve been working on small paintings for my painting class. I’m working with 8.5 x 11″ MDF. I thought this would be a series of small paintings showing what bipolar disorder looks like from the inside. Once I started painting, I realized I’m painting my autobiography.
These are some of the designs I made on my iPad but haven’t yet translated into paint.
I was going to explain these, but I’d rather hear how you interpret them.
These, so far, don’t have meaning.
I’ve been criticized for working intuitively and told I should plan out a piece before starting on it. This series defies planning. I think I’m working in one direction, and then I discover I’m working on something different. I’ve no idea when this series will be done or what, if anything, I want to do with the designs. Crit will be especially intriguing.
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Both of those designs make me think of something outside of the “norm” – in the first one, all of the red lines (kind of looks like a sun and sun rays to me) are clustered together and the straight lines are the same length. Then the long squiggly green line is off by itself. It’s kind of going in the same direction as the short red lines, but it doesn’t fit their pattern. In the second one, the tan lines are all swimming between the riverbanks, but the 3 lines to the right are on the shore watching.
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