Good News from "Father Time" (or BY Father Time!?)

Hooray! Isn't it interesting that just when we're feeling most like we aren't going to sell anything for a while, something unexpected--totally unexpected!--usually sells. :) At least for me that's the way it seems to work. I've had a rather quiet spell for a little while and then, out of the blue, I had a voice mail on my cell phone yesterday from Timberline Gallery in Oakhurst. When I returned the call, I was told that a small print of "Joy" had sold yesterday PLUS a full sheet watercolor of Father Time. I was so excited that I was dancing around the house for hours! I'm attaching a cropped photo of the painting that I took in rather bad lighting but you'll get the idea of the painting from it. A lady purchased it who owns another painting of mine and I hope to get to talk to her in person very soon.

All My Children

That's pretty funny, for a title, since I only have 1 child! And pretty "soap-opera-ish", too!

Today, I "sat" at Timberline Gallery and worked on updating my inventory list there. It's always good to take in new items (in this case, the ones for the "Being Green" show)  and remove ones that have been in a particular location for a while. They haven't sold and sometimes it's because they need to be freshened up, relabeled, repackaged--or maybe they just aren't up to par!? But when I'm collecting my pieces from the 3 galleries I'm in, I always say (or feel) that I'm "gathering up my children" from here, there, and everywhere.

I am currently in the process of "regrouping" and redistributing paintings before the Reedley Opera House show the end of April. I will "shuffle" things around between Timberline, The Art Stand Gallery, and Circle Gallery in Madera so that I have what I need for Reedley. Plus, trying to finish some new paintings up before the show as well. Being an artist is never dull, believe me!

"Going Green" and Googling a Calendar--

. . . . and not being totally successfully with either one, especially the calendar. I'm still trying to be ready for tomorrow's trip to Oakhurst with my "green show" paintings. I'm trying to figure out how to get a neat, up to date, Google monthly calendar onto my blog. I've got the calendar template, but no events, as yet. Soon, hopefully!

Meanwhile, back to going GREEN!

I'm Green With Envy. . . . or is it Red With Rage?

Or maybe it's yellow with a lack of courage. . . .to finish up my entries for the "Being Green" show at Timberline. All I need are 3 white twist ties and some baling wire. . . and I can finish the last one! (I think!)

Seriously, that's what I must do tomorrow and I won't be revealing any photos on my blog. You will have to go to Timberline Gallery in Oakhurst to view the Green Show. It will be hung on Monday, April 6th and run through the first Sunday in June. I think it promises to be an interesting and exciting show--a new venture for Timberline for this year. The Green Show will be followed by "Faces" in June/July and "Birds of a Feather" in August/September.

The Oakhurst Gallery today

Timberline all day today, very peaceful. . . but also very quiet. There will be a lot going on there in the next couple weeks with a large painting project, among other things. As I left at 4 PM it was raining lightly, then there was sun on the way down, then a drizzle, and then clouds at home. The weather has been VERY strange the last few weeks--raining about every other day, with beautiful sun-shiny days in between. We've been enjoying those and trying to stay dry on the alternate ones.

Philosophizing after a Monday in the mountains

Today was a "sitting" day for me at the Timberline Gallery in Oakhurst, California. It was rainy all day, dark and quiet with not a lot of visitors. Still, the shift (10 AM to 4 PM) went by quickly because I had things to do and I also had a lot of new pieces to study. That can occupy a lot of time for those of us who are part of the gallery  (as we study and enjoy new work bimonthly at each gallery change) and for our visitors.

On another note (but a somewhat similar one), I love today's quote about art, taken from the bottom of my blog. Stella Adler said: "Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."  Sometimes life does beat us down, for whatever reason, and enjoying art or creating it lifts us back up again. Illness, depression, poverty, crime, loneliness, and natural disasters--these are but a few of the things that quickly come to mind that beat us down and verge on stealing our souls. Even at the lowest times, looking at something beautiful or putting our heart into creating a small piece of art or crafting an object or piece of clothing can bring us some measure of satisfaction and peace and reassure us that our soul is undamaged. 

Perhaps I should have added "doing taxes" to the list of what beats us down because that's what faces us this week. And it's not just taxes, but getting all of our paperwork in order. That includes my art-related paperwork, so in the upcoming days I will be happy to remember that I spent most of last week soulfully creating new paintings as I endure the stressful moments to come.