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Here is the funny thing about painting the fridge...
I paint flat on a table and I found that standing upright and using upright movements with my arms was kinda fun. Now I am thinking of the garage door.....
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said the vintage Kelvinator refrigerator!   I bought this years ago at an old farmhouse and have tried to clean this. But it is just stained. Icky gross looking stains. I had all kinds of stuff held on with magnets and for some reason I took them off this week and got reminded how ugly this looks. Still a cool fridge though! Sooooo....... I decided to start cleaning my paint brushes off before I wash them. I decided that this fridge is PERFECT for cleaning my brushes!     Ya know...
I never paint upright. Always flat on my table. This is kinda fun!  This is my Studio and Gallery building. I did not know I was painting it until I was done. I love when I am surprised like that! I then began painting more buildings. I had an Art Fest at my building on Saturday. The members in our art group, The Green Cab, were there doing demos. We had all of our art on the walls and had a lovely day. The ARTOSAUR was there all day! I have taken the Tax Bugs and flown with the idea! There was an overwhelming response to the bug and in particular, the Bees! Here are some bees that I painted with recycled acrylic house paint and then did the details with acrylic paint markers. These bees are the help me take the "sting" out of paying taxes. They are all in the $100 price range... Insect production!      I use paint filled squirt bottle to make the lines and drips and these bugs suited that technique perfectly.
These photos show them still in progress. They are completed now and at Beach Books in Seaside, Oregon for sale. For the first time in years, I have to pay taxes. I don't like that. So I decided to paint a bunch of "Tax Bugs" to sell to help me pay my taxes due. Here is the first batch. They are available at Off The Walls Gallery in Shelton, Washington. This next batch is painted on paper using my regular method of making lines with paint filled squirt bottles. I got some acrylic paint markers and used those on this second batch too. Batch number 3 is in the works!
Oh what fun to do a BIG series of paintings! Farm to Table. I have done some "Farm" paintings...  These ones are sort like an odd abstract view of farms with crops and such....  Did some iPad paintings to get ideas of how to paint farms...  I painted some of the secrets that happen underground on the farms...  Yep. Things are percolating underground!  A literal translation of the table part...  A not-so-literal translation of the "to" part.....
I have had so much fun. Who knew I had such a green thumb? I have a big show at a library in September and October. So I thought it would be fun to curate a show on a theme. My theme is: "Farm to Table" I am gonna paint 25 or so paintings on that theme. I have a good start. Oh, you want a sneak peek, eh?    25 PAINTINGS!
I gotta get back to work! February was no fun. First it was a cold that turned into the bronchial thing that "everybody" got then it was a horrible 2 day flu and then it was my back. Oh, did my back hurt. For no good reason. I did not get as much painting done as I wanted to do. Imagine that. I have a place in the back room that I call "The Hall of Shame." It is where ugly paintings go until I can make them pleasing to me. I make them face the wall so I do not have to look at the ugliness that I, myself, brought forth into this world. I have a painting that has been shamed enough and today I started to make it, and me, feel better.  I know. U G L Y. I just could not get anything about this to look good to me. I even titled it, " What Pears Dream About," thinking that that would make it better. Did not make it better.  I felt immediate release at my pent up anger at this painting the moment I started to paint over it. For real. Instant relief.  I was even smiling by this time!  I might of even been singing to my self by this point.  I adore stripes. Tomorrow I will cover up any vestige of ugly pears with a layer of alien pods. Won't that be nice?  Out of ugly came a very nice painting, if I do say so myself!
You can see it over here on Artfinder.com! I am still on the "leaf" path. I have been exploring colors and textures and shapes. 
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