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Old 04-30-2003, 11:27 AM   #9
Debra Jones Debra Jones is offline
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Feeling pumped up.

Ok Linda!

Let's just say I need to leave my house in something besides my pastel pants! You have SEEN me in studio!

I brought out my summer stuff this week, and that is the stained right hip where I wipe my sticks to see what color they are but this lovely ensemble had ventilated knees, which grew to my hip as I drove over there. I feared the seat leaving when I bent to set up the pose! I have ONE decent dress to show myself in public gatherings. You are all thinking I am joking, but a few extra pounds and lack of attention to the fashion scene have left a full closet of clothes too small and no desire even to run to TJMAXX.

By not reaching out to touch more galleries, I have no room to walk in the house and have cut my work schedule back to where a loose tooth is getting postponed until I come up with just the right promotional piece to try a trade with a periodontist.

It is a bit ugly.

Thanks for the inspiration Mari. I have met your two contemporaries. Just a month or two ago Dan McCaw gave a lecture at the school and although some friends grumbled that he had not taught anything of the technique my friend expected to hear, I found it a really inspiring and expanding lecture. Milt is a former mentor and lets me help out when I can with his studio.

The Kobayashi effect is a little of my problem, as two pieces directly influenced by his workshop have received a lot of notice lately and to my dismay. He has a big fan base out here and I determined to not come out a clone, so I avoided trying to slavishly mimic his style and learned a LOT about the craft of painting. Now I am rethinking subject for mood and trying to get that pop without the immediate recognition! A quandary!

Thanks for all your support folks. I am still trying to figure out how to paint what I want and still live indoors! Maybe I will stick back in that day I took off my work schedule just to get a running jump at it again. Or just to get this tooth fixed!
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