Happy Valentines and stuff
Happy Valentines day! I’ve never been a big fan as it is just another one of those taken way out of context, overly commercialized holidays. I have also reached a point in my life where consuming mass quantities of chocolate is probaly a really bad idea. That being said, I do believe that celebrating love is always a spectacular idea and the colors are pretty….. and maaaaybe a little chocolate in sensible amounts is ok too. Therefore, I will reflect on all those I love and am grateful to have in my life. I hope you do the same.
Yesterday was my birthday and for breakfast I am going to enjoy some leftover of this amay-ZING birthday cake! My sweet 13 year old made it. Isn’t he awesome! I had a wonderful time celebrating. I even got to have a DATE NIGHT (woo hoo). Farmor came to watch Jude while BFS and I snuck away for a lovely night out. Yep, it was a good day to be me!
The rest of the week is looking to be very busy. I have several paintings to finish and a super fab Beatles party to prepare for. We will be celebrating Jude’s Birthday this weekend Magical Mystery Tour style with our family and friends. I can’t believe my sweet Jude will be one on Saturday! Now if I can just get off the computer and get busy…. I need to go make another list!
Shugar happy on life,
Wenders
An abundance of creativity
Did I mention that some days are more inspiring than others! Where am I gonna get the time of day to do all of the fabulousness that I have planned? Creative overabundance!
But what a great day for creativity. I sent this to a wonderful friend who gifted it to her sweet husband who couldn’t wait until Valentines day to open.
Soon. you will know how to have your very own. Never-the-less…The things I learned today were that yes, selling a painting feels good….and selling two paintings feels even better . But what feels the best, is having the inspiration to continue to paint and create is the most rewarding of all.
Truth-be-telt, I was getting scared there for awhile. I hadn’t painted in so long that dust was gathering on the shelf and starting to creep into my confidence. But I knew if I held on long enough it would return with abundance. and abundance is clearly taking over.
Creatively yours,
Wenders.
Studio Sunday: A mess of goodness
Alright, technically it isn’t Sunday anymore but dammit it is the only time I have to blog.
It has really been good to get back into the studio this week! Despite being confined to the house due to ice and snow, I have really felt the inspiration to create. I guess it is that time of year where my need to paint reawakens. That need tends to go dormant during the holiday season until mid January then comes back with a fury… right about now. In order to define myself as an artist I have to accept that I am a victim to these creative and uncreative whims…..awe hell, I resist it all the time, whatever….
SO! What is on the table for today? …..
Chaos! Pure Chaos…. I am not sure I could work on a clean surface…..This was taken at 6:30am this Sunday. I actually got up at 5:30 because the tiny sleepless one decided he needed to be awake….notice the baby monitor in the right corner….he fell back asleep and it seemed logical to just enjoy the quiet while it lasted. Honestly, it is really hard to find time to work in this house. It is filled with life, love and chaos. What it is very rarely filled with are peaceful moments to escape into artful moments. Mind, I wouldn’t change my sweet world for anything else (despite my ocasional breakdowns!). But it is REALLY is hard to find times to escape into my paintings. However, I figure there will be plenty of time for that later. Right now, I really need to enjoy the babyness of my baby and the tenagerness of my teenager and support BFS in all the amazing things he gets up to. In the mean time I will paint when I can paint and dream about a studio in a remote location….
I have several paintings I wish I could reveal, but until all commissions are delivered I must keep them under wraps. I am experimenting with a few new techniques and have much to accomplish before mid-march when I launch a new face and storefront for Wenderflonia (and possibly another branch off that specifically emphasizes my photos). But enough of that, just know there are so many things whirling around in my head at the moment, and I will share in all due time but the mean time I am working, working, working. I feel I should also let you know I have been working to the inspiration of all the Armageddon movies we have in our dvd collection. So far I have watched: Zombieland, Independence Day, 12 Monkeys, Armageddon, Mama Mia (Not sure how that fits), and 2012. Not sure why, but I did. I also just realized that Bruce Willis and Woody Harrelson are in a lot of apocalyptically themed movies.
The one thing I do know for absolute certain is that there better be no more snow days! I love love love my boys but a week stuck in the house has left my floors in desperate need of mopping and no one will sit still long enough for me to do that. Also, Parker needs a more formal education than learning how to create a bobsled runway out of the driveway…..although he was really good at it.
Full of love and ready for an adventure,
Wenders
Winter armageddon day #4
Winter armageddon continues with snow day #4 here in North Texas. The world, at this point feels very surreal as we are stuck indoors. It has been mostly ice rather than snow, although we are expecting the snow to show any minute now. I ventured out yesterday (only fell once and a half) to take a few photos but the 2 inch layer of ice on every available surface prevents me from taking baby jude anywhere….therefore, stuck inside. Our sweet neighbor came by and cat littered our sidewalk but the ice is so frozen it is like a broken string of beads on the ground. Sweet getsture though and will be very helpful when it melts a bit.
It took BFS almost 3 hrs to get to work today…. I guess he was that desperate to get out of the house and that seemed like the best option… can’t blame him….Hopefully one more day and the great defrost of 2011 will commence.
With cabin fever love,
wenders
Wordless Wednesday….Snowday in Suburbia
News from the Texartica!
Talk about 70 to nuthin’ in no time flat. We were wearing shorts and frolicking around the neighborhood a few short days ago and today everything came to a freezing stand still. Everything was canceled and we had ourselves a snow day and maybe a few more to follow. Temps were as low as 11 Fahrenheit. That’s pretty cold for us southerners! I dont have any fabulous pics to share because we stayed holed up today but I assure you we got the call that school and work was canceled for Wednesday and I will venture out with the camera and capture the goings on in the freeeezing cold.
Since BFS was home I was able to spend a good amount of time in the studio and I am pleased with the result!
I can’t wait tio get the ball rolling on all the new ideas I have! Looks like I can still be inspired in the cold.
Love on ice,
Wenders
Hoping for a quiet Monday
StuStuStudio Sunday
First off, I totally apologize for the crappy quality of the photos. I took them with my iphone and am not sure what I did to deserve such low quality photos. They usually aren’t this bad! Right!? However, I really wanted to show proof of my re-inspiration. It has been forever since I painted. It felt so good to get glue and paint all over me and ruin a new shirt. Ahhh good times. A few weeks ago I had nuthin’…..I was creatived out…. I was meagerly surviving on photoshop tutorials and editing old photos to sustain my creative urges. Then the artistic force hit me like a ton of bricks. I think it was the “fake spring” that did it. The weather has been sunny and warm here in the Metroplex and all I wanted to do was take walks and play with paint. I had several burst of inspirations that have been rumbling around in my noggin and finally put something on canvas. The weather is supposed to return to cold and wet so we shall see how this influences studio time.
I really wish the quality was better but you get the idea. I painted! I also experimented with adding photos to my paintings. The first photo is “in progress” and has many more layers to go but the bottom birdie one is complete. I love the colors and the vagueness of the background. Surely I will post some better photos….say…next exciting Studio Sunday. Ok, sounds good…
Over and Out
Wenders
Wordless Wednesday: Calgon take me back to here!
