Desperate Measures

2007-07-01T14:09:00.001-07:00

Bet you thought I would never finish it...
Frankly, I did too.
In the meantime I did the cover of a book. Among other things.

painting update

2006-08-09T20:39:00.000-07:00

Hah! I see hours more work.

2006-08-08T20:17:00.000-07:00

GADS!! I look at my old posties and find that I haven't kept this place very well updated. Painting pix tomorrow, I promise...you will be shocked at the change. That one painting is taking forever. I guess it is because of the delicate lines.

In the mean time...to keep you amused, this is a pic of me I took at work today with my new Samsung t805. (I think that is the correct model number). What an awesome camera for a phone!! LOVELY! This pic is, a you should be able to guess, meant to be funny. I almost can't belive it is me it looks so strange. But it draws me in as well.

Luvvies!

more painting...

2006-07-22T20:45:00.000-07:00

This is the painting with the ants and the little figure...I'm still working on it. You can see the figure upside down in the upper left corner

This is a detail of the painting I started today.

This is the base painting. The daughter, knowing me asked me what is coming next. I told her to "think snow". This is the "under painting". More layers will accrue over these images.

What fascinates me is that I didn't start out looking for male and female imagery. Yet, amazingly, that imagery appeared. It seems trite to me and was not intentional. But, because it was not intentional, I'm intrigued at it's occurrence.

Thank you for looking.

Luvvies! L!

2006-07-15T18:35:00.000-07:00

I've been working on some paintings.
Had an idea or two.
So, this is what I'm ready to share sooo far. (No, not sofa!, so far)

This is the first in the series. Of course you cannot see alot of what is going on and some of the textures are lost. And I'm sure I'm not the best photographer in the worrrld.

This is a detail of the first (test) painting.

This is a tiny 2-inch square which is a detail I got hung up on in the second painting in the series.

Funny thing is, and you would never guess it, up and to the left of this figure I painted a fairly comic image of an ant. I was wondering what compelled me to paint an ant to begin with. I am not really crazy about the critters and fire ants are particularly no fun. I wondered if I was painting familiar surroundings. I guess one could construe the beginnings of this painting as me saying Florida is oppressing me and the joker/trickster of an ant is having fun at my expense. But that really wasn't what was going on in my head. I paint this figure in this position sometimes. I've even sculpted her in bronze. It is one of my favorite sculptures of mine. You just want to hold her and surround her. Dunno.

Now that company has gone, perhaps I'll have more time to paint.

Luvvies,
L!

new endeavors

2006-06-18T15:29:00.000-07:00

This is a pic of Nora and Malena at Balticon. This is the best pic I have of the tatter skirt I made. Nora honored me by asking if she could wear it for opening ceremonies. :-)

Been working on cleaning the garage. Perhaps I'll get started painting again soon. I have a space cleared and I'm ready to set up the area for painting. R said he would put cardboard down for me tomorrow. Painting can make quite a mess.

So ideas...when I want them, they seem to come, mostly in the middle of the night when I wake and can't sleep. I've always used layers in painting and some you can see through like windows...I guess this reflects how I think. I saw the most wonderful set of paintings with all the concepts I've been focusing on incorporated into them. I've used pure linseed oil to make windows and mixed paint with marble dust for texture and thickness. But I'm thinking, hell, why play around, I could just pour polyurethane and buy spackle to mix with the paint. Of course there is the consideration of whether the pieces will destruct. :-) Trial, error, research.

A predominant theme in my paintings is relationships. I obsess with relationship dynamics and take them to paintings to try to find resolution. You may know me well enough to know that some people might consider me a little odd. This aspect of me can cost me friends and it can endear people to me. I am me and can only be me so, in the course of just being me (and yeah, I've tried to tone down but that doesn't seem to work), I lose friends and scare people away. I find this distressing, but something I have come to accept to some degree. Anyway, this is the running theme in my paintings and art along with my relationship with the goddess and my spiritual side.

Can't wait to get started!

Luvvies,
L!

2006-05-30T21:56:00.000-07:00

Sooo...Balticon 40, the year and I turn 40. Pretty funky.

After endless preparation to make everything work out, I am now jobless until next year.

All the feedback suggests that B40 succeeded with great acclaim. No better con had most attended and certainly not I. Of course problems arose, but I think most were because people were tired and stressed. I just ask one thing, "Can't we all just get along?"

I was fully prepared to hate the Hunt Valley, but rather liked it in the end. As for the complaints of walking, well, I take every opportunity to exercise.

As for my role and my part in B40, I was happy to be able to meet so many new people as well share some time with various guests of honor. Rosemary Wolfe is such a sweet person and I'm honored to have had the opportunity to meet her. I didn't know of Gene Wolfe prior to his being chosen as GoH, but he is absolutely charming and witty! He got one of my tongue and cheeck comments that appeared to elude the others. And I enjoyed Neil's anecdotes to and from the airport. Malena, despite being sick, was as sweet and lovly as I figured her to be. Lorraine plays a mean violin! What talent!! But I must say that meeting Lisa was, for me, the high light of the B40. We've been communicating for a couple years now and finally have met face to face. I have to help convince her to move closer.

Yep! and I sure threw a wonderful party! She has now given me two titles! The first is Chief Package Inspector and the newest is Cruise Director.

It's all over now. I look forward to next year.

Faerie

2006-03-25T19:33:00.000-08:00

I have been soaking wormwood absinthium in Absolut vodka for several years...3 or, more likely, 4 years. I mixed my absinthe with pernod and some sugar and it is perfect!!! I'm so thrilled!! The green faerie visited me!!

On another note...my cholesterol is in great shape! I bought some clothes today. Reeeally nicee.

Funny thing though...I feel anxiety over something...It could be the upcoming new moon, but I'm pretty freaked. Something is coming.

Web Cam LaM

2006-03-25T05:28:00.000-08:00

Some webcam shots Ravyn screen captured from our on-line thang with Lorraine a Malena. Pretty kewl, eh?

2006-03-19T19:56:00.000-08:00

A clever bit of photoshopping. I took this photo when I was in Boston...
I added the "T" for reasons I do not wish to disclose on this blog. Ooooh, I should alter the birth and death dates too.

waning moon?

2006-03-19T19:34:00.000-08:00

Ack! It's been the strangest week! The planets must be screwy...or...rather...I KNOW!...it is the dratted waning moon!!

Firstly, the Ravyn has flown away on vacation. Secondly, funding for lawschool seems bleak. Thirdly, I've had this awful on and off again headache ALL week! And fourthly, my darling widdle bossman called me this afternoon to ask if we got a paper signed and filed before the thirty-day period to do so was over. GADS! The client was sick in bed all week for starters, AND NO ONE EVER TOLD _ME_ that it was time-critical! I had no clue!!

I try to stay away from toxic environments and I'm thinking that my work situation may be one of them.

On the up side...I cooked a fabulous Thai curry chicken dinner with lightly sauteed snow peas, bean sprouts and bamboo shoots on the side. Ooh, mmm. Sundays are the days my daughter dictates what I cook. She has my menus lined up for a month! She calls for curry alot. She likes soups and fish, shrimp and scollops. Last week she ordered my special alfredo sauce. Sometimes I surprise her with a dessert. We had strawberries and ricotta cheese in crepes tonight. I try to keep it healthy and light.

Well...the end of another weekend. They go soo fast.

2006-03-18T17:04:00.000-08:00

http://www.catatonicstudios.com/music.html

I met a guy on the net about five years ago. His name...dang, I don't remember. We communicated for a while and I really enjoyed our conversations. I loved how he enjoyed his daughter. He was also an amateur musician, but I was always so impressed by his music! I found it difficult to believe he was only an amateur. His sound is a little like Tom Waits. I ran across a couple of the pieces he sent me and it made me sad that I have lost touch with someone so nifty. I do have his music though and I want to share it with you. I'm sure he wouldn't mind.

2006-01-31T16:38:00.000-08:00

I just don't think blogger is as intuitive as live journal. I just figgured out how to post! SHEESH!!

I am somewhat...

2005-12-15T18:46:00.000-08:00

confuzzled!

I don't know how to add links or even how to post. Yeah yeah, I know this is a post, but I think I got here in a most circuitous route!
SHEESH!!