Reply #29: Machetes and scythes are good [View All]

[Tsiyu]

when you grow those mutant garden plants! :evilgrin:

Sorry the sunflower won. (I bet her name is Skittles..:))

One tip I learned working with post surgery coughers: before you cough, grab one or two pillows and press them up against where it hurts with your forearms. It will keep the sore spot from moving so much when you cough.

And I will tell you a photography story to bore you to sleep lol. :boring:

This April my then SO and I went to visit Buggytop Cave. It was an awesome spring afternoon, bright sun, leaves just that perfect pale green in the surrounding hills.

We took some photos from well inside the mouth of the cave. They had great contrast with the dark cave walls and the afternoon sun hitting the vegetation outside.

I've been working on a painting for a few months from one of the photos, except I put a person - a 19th century Chikamaugan, I imagined, crouched like a rock on the cave floor, looking toward the cave opening, listening. From a distance, the person could be a small boulder.

It was nowhere near ready, but a dear young woman I know had to open her gallery today minus a lot of work due to a major contributor backing out. So I was asked to find anything last minute to fill wall space.

After work last night I worked on it again. (I had been able to do some work on it Thursday when a Sewanee senior escaped the party bedlam and arrived here with a 400 page French novel she had to read overnight. We took turns mangling the French words and I painted while she read.)

With a panic attack, I dropped it off with a couple of drawings this morning. I felt inadequate as an artist but gave it up and went to work.

When I got home my daughter had left a message. The painting sold in a few hours.

:bounce:

So it's a long-winded not much about photography story, but I haven't exhibited a painting in years and it was all inspired by a photograph!

Hope you feel better ( if you're still awake ;)) and up to more pictures soon.