Been so busy lately my head is spinning. Round and round just like a ball bearing. It’s enough to make a girl dizzy. Been finishing moving out of the old studio into the new.

But Susan, didn’t you move into the new! improved! Studio Grande six months ago?

Well, yes, I did. In a half-assed sort of way. Just the necessary stuff, you know. But stuff I had no immediate use for or didn’t know what to do with, I left behind hoping it would magically go away on it’s own.

But it didn’t. And now it’s time to rent out the cottage (ka-ching! ka-ching!) so I’ve been sorting, cleaning, donating and moving things from one place to another. Now that the old studio is nearly clean enough to rent out, the new one is TOTAL chaos. Every counter, every inch of floor is covered with S.T.U.F.F.

By this afternoon I needed a sanity break. So I stopped moving and cleaning and started stepping around and over things, poking through things, finding things… cranked up the music and began PAINTING!!!

YAY!!!

Oh, YAY!!! again.

I started with the piece I showed you last time.  You can see and read about it here. 

Well, the first thing I did was slap some paint on that puppy. I wanted to warm it up so I grabbed some Golden Open Acrylic in Titan Buff. I glopped it on with a palette knife and then spread it thinner using all sorts of arty tools. Brayer. Squeegie. Foam brush.

I am an equal opportunity spreader.

I began adding one of the golds. Not sure which one this is, it’s a darker one, at least straight from the bottle. Lightens up when you spread it tho.

And I continued scribbling using caran d’ache and plain old pencil. Oh, pardon me, graphite.

This is where it stands tonight. More layers still to come but I’m happy where this is headed.

As always, I would love to hear from you in the comments below. I will even blow kisses to you from afar and leave you with a happy face.

Because it’s such a grownup thing to do.