27Jun09 Adventures in painting

One of my sisters and her husband came to visit today. After sitting around chatting some we went to Arby’s for lunch and talked some more. I really wish we could visit more with them because I had a great time. Once we got back from lunch my cousin came over to play with my sister’s paints. She had brought oil and watercolors. I was supposed to have found my acrylics but they were no where to be found. I looked through every closet twice before I found them in a box of scrap booking supplies. I’m highly organized like that.

They both began working on a painting of a picture of a hollyhock I took last year. I had to search for about 15 minutes to find out where it was on my hard drive so they would have a reference. (Another sign of my highly organized system.) During that time I finally found my acrylics and decided to start painting… something. I only got as far as covering the entire canvas with a background color. See, I haven’t used the acrylics since my sister gave them to me, oh, over a year ago. Everything kept glooping together and made mixing the color I wanted a little difficult. It often turned into a vomit green color and I had to start over. But that’s all part of the fun, right? Also part of the fun was deciding that yes, we are all crazy and that just makes life more fun. I was also able to document some of their painting process. More photos after the cut.

Not long after this shot my sister, who had successfully mixed the color she wanted, yelled “THAT’S CAUSE I’M SMART.” Sure. We believe you.

And for some random updates I have finally switched the site over from the “ugly” url structure. Some links on the site still use it but thanks to a redirect plugin I can be lazy about fixing those. I have also successfully installed the Lifestream plugin. I’ve got a few feeds added already but since I’m not quite happy with the look of it I won’t be linking it just yet. But progress is progress, yes?