High Contrast Grey.

Jessye got a hold of my camera this past weekend. Perhaps my lipstick too, but it may be her’s. I’m not sure…

Bottle of whiskey hidden in a dirty, over-sized pack. I sit at the Butterfly drinking an Earl Grey, over-steeped and bitter. Accompanied with literary discoveries in the French language. A man in a suit jacket and jeans buys his son a small treat. They have run out of teapots and teacups. / An old painter sits down across the table. “Young man, I am addressing you now.” He shake-ily writes his name and number on an unused 3x5 and through closed eyes, recalls his meeting of Edward Hopper. Stern like a Prussian officer from World War One with his helmet off. Unforgettable.

I just checked the website for the juried show and none of my names showed up. Meh. I guess I get to get my paintings back earlier to make some prints instead of having to wait another two weeks, to look on the bright side…

and so marks the end of working on my personal artwork while I finish out this semester… I just put these last two works in a juried show at university and I should find out Monday if they make the cut. I am feeling a bit nervous because I worked the process of getting everyone’s piece processed for the show and it seems that the quality and style of work is all over the place, so I am not sure how my work will be received. Definitely not the selection from the last juried show I was in in Billings..

I am going to Rennes next year for university. I will finally being living in a city with a subway, and well, in France.

The absinthe bar has been finished… Although I still need to ink in the hinge on the window. (shhh…) Out of all the paintings that I had hanging in the show, I was surprised this one wasn’t the one that sold, but it is my latest so I still feel the most attached to it..

This semester has been so crazy in the amount of work that I get assigned plus all the extra work that I do, like the clubs that I am in. I think that I will finally be finishing up this lady with the big hair soon, seeing as how I have added all the Baroque forms to the background and all that I have left is the fan to put in her hair and add some more detail to her hair. I hope to use this painting in the upcoming juried show on campus, but I am not sure how many pieces we are restricted to and if it is only one I might be putting up the absinthe bar painting instead, with a different frame. I love the frame that it is in, but I am sad that it has a slight curve to it. Oh well, I guess that is what happens with a $5 frame from the back of some antique store.. As for the sculpture, I am hoping to get this finished by Wednesday for class, but thankfully we have been given an extension to Monday due to the project beginning a day late. I am still not sure how to c...