I encountered a slight roadblock on the current masterpiece-in-progress (snort). First I couldn’t find my college portfolio. Then when I found it, it no longer contained the two paintings on stretched canvases that have been in there for over 20 years. I have no idea where the hell they are. I guess I wasn’t meant to re-purpose them (which I had planned to do). Not that it was a real roadblock anyway. My only mission for the day was tearing apart that painting, and I did that. I also washed a bunch of my glass bits. Tomorrow I will go buy a nice new stretched canvas. I happen to have a 40% off coupon for Hobby Lobby, and they happen to have 12″x24″ canvases which are dirt cheap without a coupon.

So tomorrow’s only mission is to acquire the proper canvas as a base for this work. If the sun comes out, maybe I can work a little further ahead and apply the base coloring to it, but I can’t paint in this house when it’s cloudy and dark … which is why not having a canvas to work on today wasn’t much of an issue. It was dark and cloudy most of the day (and hot).

What’s been worse than tearing apart that painting today, which I thought was going to feel awful, has been getting out the other things I intend to use in this multi-media collage-assemblage work and contemplating using them. What if I can’t ever get any more?!?! Yes, well, it’s possible if I use that thing I have had in my box of artsy stuff for decades, I may, in fact, never get more just like it, and then, if I sell that work, I won’t even have the thing to look at anymore! Such is life. Art requires sacrifice, right? I need more room in my house anyway. Time to turn all this junk into art. I’ll become rich and famous! :lol:

Mostly what I am whining about using this scrap of real mink I have had bumbling around in my life forever. It dates to the forties, and it used to be a coat collar. I definitely want to use it, but yeah … I doubt I will be getting any more scraps of real mink any time soon. I guess I’ll deal with those feeling when I get to that part of the project. No sense getting angst-ridden about my mink scrap now. I am at least a week or two from having to take scissors to it.

Nothing much else to report for the day. The kitchen is clean, the painting got torn up, the glass bits got washed, I petted my mink scrap, I took a long nap, and the cats have been sweet (sort of). Really sort of a boring kind of day. Nothing really to show you as far as progress on the work-in-progress goes either, aside from telling you the working title is Rising Scar. So in lieu of showing you something interesting or awesome, here … have a look at my freshly washed glass bits. ;)