Deirdre Abbotts

Yesterday i spent quite a bit of time cutting up soda cans so that i could make sheets of metal that will go through my printer.  It wasn’t really hard but it did take time because I wanted to be careful and not cut myself.  No cuts or injuries and I managed to reduce 2 garbage bags of soda cans to one small box of metal sheets.  I’m not ready to start printing yet, but now I’ll be ready.  I was encouraged to do this after getting a YouTube subscription update and seeing that Kathy Anne White recently had a new video Her videos are very informative and I really like her work.

I also have a huge pile of old photographs which my husband recently acquired.  He picked up a cedar chest at the dump (or a yard sale), and inside are more than 40 dry mounted photos.  They appear to be from professional NY area photographers – if anyone has any clue how I would find out if they are worth anything I’d be very appreciative – you can see the images (and see a few links that i’ve found relating to the photographers on one of my test blogs – I want to warn you, some of the photos are gruesome.

Tonight I sorted clothes that Morgan doesn’t want – either she has outgrown them, or she just doesn’t want them.  So they have been put into 3 piles – goodwill (already dropped off), consignment or ebay for the better stuff and a pile that I don’t want to get rid of.  This last pile isn’t too big but I have to get a box to store these items.

Tonight I started to work on what I hope will end up being a painting based on my photograph taken at the Winchester Mystery House.  I already have the painting I did a few years ago in Marilyn Sholin’s class and using this color scheme, i’ve blocked in the base colors.  Below is my finished painting from the class, the sketch I did and the color block painting.  I probably won’t have a chance to do any more painting before next weekend, but it was fun to start.