STRANGE ART #6

 Not a combination of animal and woman…but a sad little clown woman.  

From a photo found on the Sktchy Museum app (lots of free to use photos there, mostly portraits).

DIGGING OUT BUT GETTING THERE

 Sweetie and I are still taking shifts in digging out his car (mine is a lost cause, sitting in a very slanted driveway covered in snow and with a dead battery).  We limit ourselves to 1/2 hour shifts so we don’t injure ourselves.  We still have about an hour or more to go.

But after the shoveling yesterday I hadn’t started feeling much pain in my back (yet!) so went down to my little art room to clear my head and thought I’d try to rework this bizarre sheep girl with gouache over the wool.  So I did.  I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea but I guess I need to make something strange right now…and maybe all month.  

I have a lovely amaryllis blooming and another that will be blooming in a week or so saying, “Why don’t you paint us?” But, like I said, need to make strange things right now.  I don’t hate the little sheep girl.  

I TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY HATE WINTER

 So…my aunt died December 25th (Sweetie and I went over to see her December 24th and were shocked that she was failing so quickly).  This was the last sister my mother had (she had 3 sisters and 3 brothers).

Then Sweetie got an awful cold (from family gatherings Christmas Eve, we think).  It lasted 6 days before easing up but by then I had the awful cold (from Sweetie, of course).  That lasted 6 days before easing up.  I am feeling better but Sweetie now is having a set-back and feeling worse.

Then we had a monster of a winter storm that brought about 9-10 inches of snow to our area and I went out to start my car (which had been sitting there since I was not going anywhere with a rotten cold) and it was dead - would not turn over at all so I couldn’t move it out of the very sharply slanted driveway…so it will be a bear to get AAA to come jump start it and shovel it out enough to be able to move it onto the street…which is covered in snow and ice and…

Everything is closed.  Was closed today and will be closed tomorrow.  Not sure about Wednesday and I had an appointment to get a hair cut in time for my aunt’s visitation and memorial mass, but doesn’t look like that is going to happen.

Sweetie and I will try to shovel out tomorrow and Wednesday without making ourselves sicker or throwing out our backs.  No one else is going to do it.  

It is not fun getting old and realizing you are really on your own when you could use a younger person around to help.  And realizing that all of your relatives are dying.  

IN MY SLOW-DRAWING SKETCHBOOK

Some of these are drawn in the sketchbook and others are done on small bits of paper and glued in later.

 

MAKE STRANGE ART #5

 

Well…would like to make the wool more wooly looking - might have to use gouache for that?  Or has this “series” run its course already?