Follow your bliss...: November 2010

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Painting, painting, painting...

Detail of work in progress in the Blue Sky series...layers of color...

Work in progress, from the Blue Sky series 16 x 8 inches


The big one...

Work in progress in the Ancient Mechanism painting 16 x 8 inches

A night sky in progress 12 x 12 inches

Lots of work in progress, nothing finished, yet progress is a good thing, and I'm feeling satisfied with the way things are going...it feels good.

Moonlighting Gallery, 137 First Street, Liverpool New York

Our sign was installed on the store front today (at last)...now people will know who we are...it's so pretty!

Sunday, November 07, 2010

November...


Winter, Moon 11/7/2010 acrylic wash, monotype, sumi paper on canvas 16 x 8 inches	(Nocturne series)

The Children's Moon, 11 7/2010, acrylic wash, monotype, sumi paper on canvas, 10 x 10 inches (Blue Sky series)

A little more progress on my Evening Sky, not done yet...

I've had a touch of a cold for this weekend, stayed home and slept the day away on Friday, ate hot n' sour soup and babied myself...feeling a bit better, been busy painting today, very productive! Lots of new work in progress, one is a red one, and more in the Blue Sky series on deck...and I really love my new Nocturne piece, it turned out just as I had envisioned it (I love when that happens!)

Me and Fibromyalgia...the good news is, it's not going to kill me.

I was finally diagnosed with Fibromyalgia in 2007 after years of being told my illness was all in my head. My Fibro is everyday fatigue with body aches, mostly tolerable, but when I have a flare-up, which can be triggered by stress, hormones, or being over tired from over-doing it, I get the full body pain, including chest pains (yes, these are scary, like an elephant standing on my chest.) Thankfully, it doesn't hurt to take a breath, but I feel breathless, I just do yoga and breathing exercises to stretch and breathe to ease through the worst of it, NSAIDs help to cut the pain, and naps are always a necessary thing when needed (but hard to do while at the day job!) It's a balancing act to manage, I take advantage of the good days, lay low on the bad ones, and very often, push through in spite of the bad days...some mornings I wish I could stay in bed, but I'm glad that I get up and about, very often 'the kinks' work themselves out. I refuse to take the recommended pharmaceutical band-aids on the market, I tried one once, and I don't like feeling like a zombie. I keep active with my creativity, I think that's the key to my overcoming this obstacle every day...and I have my Fred and our son, five cats, and one dog named Max.