Dottie Riley

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Storm Warnings

With Tropical Storm Fay bearing down on us I have moved my painting indoors for the day. Later today I will have to go out and move some plants, but that will wait. My canvas calls!

I am doing another still life. When I started organizing my paintings into groups of four to make note/ greeting cards, I realized that over the past five years I have done only three still life paintings. Only three out of how many hundreds? Yeesh! I have three times as many abstracts and I really thought I disliked those! Guess that means I really find still lifes boring! Even this one is laborious for me. I had fun doing the background which is not realistic at all, but now that I am painting the objects in the arrangement itself I stop every 15 minutes and find something else to do. When I love what I am painting I can lose all track of time and get lost for hours. I keep hoping it will "grab" me so that I can stop checking my emails, reading posts and doing all of the other things I do to distract myself.

Maybe- just maybe it will be done and I can show it to you tomorrow- or the next day- or next week- assuming Fay does not knock out our power.

I am beginning to understand Shelly's "Perpetual Portrait". When you don't truly love what you are painting it is very hard to get it done. Shelly will seek perfection anyway. I just want to get it finished; one of the reasons her art is usually better than mine.

posted on Aug 18, 2008 9:10 AM ()

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be safe
comment by shesaidwhat on Aug 19, 2008 12:34 PM ()
I can feel what you mean Dottie. You will get that feeling back I am sure! hugs
comment by itsjustme on Aug 19, 2008 1:33 AM ()
We are only getting tons of rains in Broward County.I was commenting to you that we hadn't lost power and the next thing that happened was the power started flickering off and on.I had to restart the computer.So I'm back on for now but I don't think for long.Be safe......... Laurie
comment by dogsalot on Aug 18, 2008 3:44 PM ()
Be safe there Dottie.
comment by fredo on Aug 18, 2008 1:46 PM ()
Stay safe with the storm coming, Dottie — batten down the hatches and keep yourself and the canvases dry!
comment by marta on Aug 18, 2008 10:03 AM ()
I can see why it would be difficult to get stuff done when you are not enjoying it. I think this is the first time I have not seen you excited about something you are painting.
AJ
comment by lunarhunk on Aug 18, 2008 9:18 AM ()

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