Frontier Woman - Requiem

I must have made about a million pots.  Some I don't remember.  Some I liked good enough to keep. From some I made images. Others left so quickly I didn't take the chance.  Others just hung around, becoming part of a great fragile, ever changing psyche (sigh key), becoming a part of my space and story.  Here, then is the story of three pots that just hung around until I couldn't bring myself one last time to bring them back to the storage shelves.

Frontier Woman - Requiem.

I sold a lot of stuff, but I couldn't sell that.  Saturday was a requiem for sculptures that hadn't found a home.  Pioneer Woman. Ice Skater.  "This Big" - The Orator.  I apologized; threw them on the shard pile.  Their failure was not one of process  but one of space.  Time to move on; to give up that hope. Time to feel the loss.  Sometimes, you have to let it go.   

I listened to a speaker yesterday at the University of Tulsa College of Law Symposium on Copyright Law.  J. Silbey presented on alternative intents for uses of copyright laws.

Parts of Silbey's research have resulted in a book based on needs of 'content creators' as they relate to copyright law. (hope this synopsis is at least partially accurate)  Her interviews with artists produced a short list of basic/integral needs. Space, privacy, integrity or control come easily to my mind in this regard.  When you run out of space . . . sometimes it has to go.

Thankfulness and a lucky Penny

in the studio today we are thankful for all that the year has wrought.  Already, hot weather is becoming a fond memory.  The sunny days of a younger summer.

Although I have been very busy potting, some paintings have made progress - even if its the backwards progress of a scrape job.

Pottery sales have been great; the Cherry Street Farmers Market had a bang up promoter named Penny; who of course is being promoted.  Her private name will be "She did a great job."

I've been playing nurse to a lower leg (not mine) impressed with the design of bicycle gear brackets. That's the leg without the turned ankle.  Whoo!

Here are some paintings, some of which have been redone yet again!

Sunset: State of Washington

picture credit Betty Dalsing

oil on board 8" x 10"

2015

Sunset: Bay of Fundy

St. John, New Brunswick

oil on board appr. 5" x 10"

2015

needs purples in the grass

Blue Ridge Mountains

Oil on Paper

wip

still needs some foreground work

"By the Silvery Sea"

available in print only

(ha ha)

Fall pottery follows summer vacation.

Ok - crow - HOMA mugs.

Next:  'buckle up' mugs featuringf a horse rampant over the state of Oklahoma.

Re-order of the popular Okie Rainbow mug.

New order of mugs going to the Atlas Gallery and Betty Dalsing. 

This is what you may get when mixing a painting regimen in with pottery.

"Next to Dead Man"s Pool"

Charlottetown, PEI. CA.

A rosy day in the northern summer.

Smoky Mountains on paper. I'm liking this.  

Go Pokes.

Good work by Jacob MIngs hanging at AHHA gallery till 11/22.

Best of Show 2d (according to me).

Price - way too low.