friday (sketch)
For the past three weeks we have been working on a floor piece for a dance company and it has been a life sucking project…too big, and too much the same color over and over again (and over a couple more times). It is intense…so I haven’t been strong enough to create something. But I did do a couple of sketches, circus sketches. (Amanda Davis’s book is still haunting me.) Maybe today I will be able to get that painting started. It will be a melding of the two sketches, the top girl and the bottom elephant…
I was super mail girl yesterday, so if you are expecting a package form me it is on the way. Even if you aren’t expecting a package – it hopefully will arrive this weekend. I mailed long (way too long) over due painting, cd swaps (a day late), surprise gifts and surprise paintings. But all that mail meant that I went to a postal office three times yesterday and I feel fabulous. A slight weight is off my shoulders. I still have some projects to finish and mail to send but the bulk of it is out in the world winging its way to loved ones and friends.
Lastly tomorrow is Anne & I are having our photocrawl at coney island. Coney Island closes down after the end of the month, so it should be open, but deserted. If you are in the city and think you may want to play we will be meeting at 9am and you can just leave a comment or email me (wendyATgreengirlartDOTcom ) and I’ll get you the where info. (so we can know how many people to expect….)
::a moment…
Last night I watched an old woman and her blue eyes husky walking together, or rather shuffling down the street. I thought it was quite magical, like they were a piece of each other, growing old together…
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October 20th, 2006 at 11:32 am
love the elephant. can’t wait to see the painting. i also just truly enjoy reading your “moments”. thank you wendy!! xo s
October 20th, 2006 at 12:16 pm
Hooray, I love elephants! Can’t wait to see that one.
October 20th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
i love the eyelashes of that bottom elephant…i can’t wait to see this sketch in color…
October 20th, 2006 at 10:13 pm
i also love the string of lights…. it’s really magical [but you knew i’d like that]
if i had a teleporter i would be there for the photocrawl…. sore throat be damned!! xo
October 20th, 2006 at 10:52 pm
I would go for that combination too…love what you did with the second sketch, so more detailed! I am in for the photo craw, YEHl!!!
October 21st, 2006 at 12:06 pm
That top sketch is great; makes me think of how someone who ran-off with the circus as a child would probably spend their time hanging out with an elephant just like that one. The sketches appear to capture a performance, but studies show that an elephant’s trunk is a fine & comfotable place to hang out at any time of the day.
October 22nd, 2006 at 5:53 pm
Love the elephant (’those’ eyelashes!)… that’s just where I would ride if ever I met one.
take care, grache
October 23rd, 2006 at 12:48 am
Thanks for sharing that moment with us! good luck with the painting
& I bought one of your pengins at plush you! I blogged about it too!
xoash
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:03 am
Hey lady! Cool sketches, love the elephant. Love your moments too.. very inspiring.**
October 23rd, 2006 at 2:33 pm
wow. the sketches & your moment … wow. xx mav
October 23rd, 2006 at 4:12 pm
La la la love the elephant along with all your other la la la lovely fans.
Wish I had read this soon enough to meet you at Coney Island, I was busy roaming the streets with my blue eyes husky practicing my old lady act.
Miss you,
xo
a
October 23rd, 2006 at 7:10 pm
the elephant is fantastic, I also love how the curtains in the second sketch look like legs and the lights a spangly skirt
your moments are like paintings.
photowalking was deeeeelighful!
xox, bee
October 24th, 2006 at 1:09 pm
shari - so glad you are liking the moments, and I have started the base…so it looks good for a painting this week
janel - thank you so much
michelle - after my first sketch, I looked for some photos of elephants…they have crazy long eyelashes
lisa s - we’ll have a special photocrawl when you come!
daphne - I had so much fun on the photocrawl
gracia - me too…I would love to ride in that trunk, breathing deeply the elephant smell
ash - thank you for buying the penguin, glad that you guy is a fan!
johanna - shucks lady
maria - thank you…
aurora - I owe you a way long overdue phone call!
anne - I never saw the skirt and legs…thanks for pointing it out!