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Wordless Wednesday
Abstract by Karen Samenow
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Sep18
Flippin’ Friday
More cards.
After having a week I could have easily done without, I’m putting more effort into painting in my studio. I need the distraction, and it helps to work with paints., cards, or anything else I can get my hands on.
I’m still working on the abstract, only it has morphed into something completely different, and ever-changing. Maybe I’m not cut out for abstract!
unfinished
I’m also working on an experiment!
I decided to take a small board and at the bottom are gauze mountains, up above, stormy clouds. This had been in the making for the last week. The next step will be to adjust the clouds. Clouds are always a work in progress since there isn’t a bad cloud, just one we think is bad!
Clouds
Where are they going….Who knows…..but they are going……it will be a surprise to us all.
Just wait and see!
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Jul8
Wordless Wednesday
LaRetta Small-Zamora’s front gate
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Jul7
Coming Out of The Fog!
It’s too warm…..
As the weather warms up, I’m warming up as well. I have ideas! Ideas for painting, decorating, gardening, and ideas for fashion. It’s been important for me to stay away from stores in general. Everything except grocery stores, and that seems to be just as dangerous. (I love to shop, especially if it is for me.)
My tomato, and bell pepper plant are growing big. The cilantro,has decided to throw in the towel, and be compost. The celery along with a new organic parsley plant are growing quite well. This gives me hope that they too will survive.
The lawn, well we have stopped watering the lawn altogether. The drought has pushed us into a brown lawn, maybe brown dirt is a better way to describe it. It takes a lot of work, and a huge amount of water to keep our lawn green and healthy looking. Then….. there is Daisy, our dog! She is helping make the decision to eliminate grass. Between the drought and Daisy, our lawn doesn’t stand a chance. Although I have wanted to do something different with that area for a long time, anything I want to do isn’t affordable!
All the other plants are fine. We have just about totally replaced water guzzling plants with drought tolerant plants, and anything that doesn’t live around here, will get replaced with a boulder!
They don’t take much time, or water…..they just sleep a lot!
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Jun23
Tuesday the 23rd.
FogHorn LegHorn
Many years ago we had a little farm with fifteen chickens, and two roosters. Our first rooster we named “FogHorn LegHorn,” and I never minded that he awakened us each morning at the same time…..EARLY.
We had many other animals on our small farm, but this is really about our first rooster. A friend of ours built us a huge, really nice coup where all the hens & rooster lived at night. I don’t remember ever having trouble with the rooster when they were in the pen, but when they were all out pecking around, eating worms, and free ranging the rooster was so much fun to watch. Of course, he did what all roosters did even though he wasn’t old enough to make a difference. We had friends show up on our front doorstep with a six-pack of beer, and munchies just to relax on a Sunday afternoon in the back. They would sit all afternoon chatting, munching on goodies, and sharing beer just to watch FogHorn LegHorn and his hens. Those were fun days, and the memories of them are worthy of many short stories.
I’ve always wanted to paint chickens, or a rooster, and finally I took the leap. Since I’m not really fond of realism, I decided to paint an abstract rooster. To tell the truth, this little canvas (10″X 24″) was given to me as a challenge, and I didn’t have a clue what I would do with it. So the other day I primed it in orange, and then it began to speak. Before I knew what was happening, I was roughly sketching out a rooster. The next thing I knew I mixed up a light version of Cobalt Teal and began negatively painting.
It isn’t finished, but I’m having so much fun that I had to show all of you the possibilities of a challenge.
FogHorn LegHorn will be back. He won’t change much but he will be changed, and this is where abstract is going for me at the moment.
Old as Dirt and Proud of it! 
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