July 15, 2024, Monday — Look up, it’s beautiful. Words to live by, words to type by, or blog by, or fly by, or die by, I suppose. I have no idea what I’m going to blog about tonight, and I’ve been pretty down. Which is really a drag on my system. Depression warning!!
So here we are looking up. Ahh. Just what I needed. Wildwording is working.
It’s helping, actually
It really is. My head hurt today and it was 103F, cooler than last week’s 118F, but still, really hot. And with the headache I couldn’t breach the heat dome inside the studio. I did however, mock up five or six petite paintings I’d like to knock out starting tomorrow. Many which have views of looking up. Small paintings so I don’t die out there in the middle of a big one like I did the first entire week of the heatwave working on the 36 x 48 inch mustard flowers (which is still not done, but I do think I know how to resolve it).
I did the concept mockups here at my desk inside the house where it’s air conditioned and even filtered. Poor wildlife with neither, and surely plenty of humans, too. My God, there’s much to be down about besides my own little dramas. Though here I am in an air conditioned, filtered-air environment, living like a queen compared to any other time in human history. Yet always with the impending peril of the Malthusian check brought on the overdue bill from planet earth. Or by threat of a neo dark age from from demagogues seizing power right on our own soil.
Hence the buzz kill. Oh, my god, another depressing blog post, like yesterday’s. My apologies.
Look Up It’s Beautiful…
Here’s a painting I did shortly before Muff died when she had stabilized. Look up. It really is a beautiful world. Here’s how the painting is described on the website:
“Sometimes you just have to look up. And one of the best places to look up is into aspen trees, especially when their leaves shimmer gold and the sky is bright as a bluebird. I used thick emotive brushwork to capture the incandescent dance of these quaking aspen.”
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ASPEN INSPIRATION I | 48 x 24 in | 2024 | oil on canvas by Lauren Forcella | $3600
