First Show Finished

We took down the first show today. Below are some photos:

The next show is in Powhatan. I am not sure if we will have the entire library or just the small conference room. If it is the entire library, then I will include originals with the prints.

Nature Trail

I have named this one and decided to take it in for photographing and then framing. [8/31/09 --- I have reposted the professionally photographed image.]




Ink
22" by 30"
2008

Sand Patterns 1

I still need to stare at this one a while longer before I take it in to be photographed but I think it is finished. It will make great LE prints. [8/31/2009 --- It is finished and I have reposted the professionally photographed image.]






Ink on cold press watercolor paper

16" by 20"

2009

FB

OMG, I went out to FB and my language had changed to some Nordic language with umlauts. If it stays that way, I am not sure what I will do. I need to be able to read things in order to change the language.....

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P sent me instructions on how to change back to English even if I can't read what it says. Thank you!!

I also wonder if it is hackers. What a hoot if it is.

Stuck

I wonder what it means... I have only been able to put 17 items on my "30 things to do before 60" list.

Libraries

I now have libraries lined up to show my prints through April, 2010 (and then again November, 2010. I think I am also going to investigate displays in various arts centers in the area. I know there is one in Orange, Va and Short Pump, VA; and today, my son and I discovered a really nice one in Montpelier, VA. A percentage of each sale goes to the canters but the percentage is usually low like 25% to 30% which is very manageable. Most of the sale price will come back to me (hooray).

Calculus Is Beautiful

Calculus is very abstract. Imagine getting infinitely close to zero but never reaching it. Wonderful. Beautiful.

Things To Do

Lists can be good things. The lists I particularly like are ones like "40 things to do before 40". I started to think of a "60 things to do before 60" but...the list is just too long -- 60 things.

So maybe 40 before 40 is okay but then perhaps subtract 5 for every decade after 40. Ah. Now my list is more approachable. I am going to think of a "30 things to do before 60" list. I better think fast as there are only three more years left!

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See the new entry under my Links section to the right. A work still in process.

Where to start...

One of the libraries has asked for an artist's statement. The problem is; where do I start? There is so much to say. I walk through the world constantly aware of patterns and colors around me. In fact, probably more colors than most people because of my keratoconus. And, I probably see more patterns because of my orientation towards math. When I was adding and subtracting, multiplying and dividing at the age of 5, I was also thinking of picture -- glimpses. My path through the world of art has been circuitous to say the least. So, perhaps that is where I should start.

My Birthday

Hah! Everyone is celebrating my birthday, even Google! hahaha

Acryla Gouache

I have discovered and purchased aryla gouache by Holbein. It sounds intriguing. It is flat acrylic paint. Since it is flat, other water media such as regular gouache can be used with it. Once dry, it will not blend with other layers. So what excited me about this is that I love to paint on a colored ground and then layer and layer and layer! I'll let you know what it is like when i use it in the next couple of days!

Clean-Up Time

Wow. I can now see the floor and get to my paper and paints.

Yesterday, my son and I cleaned up the "room above the garage" where I store my art supplies. I can now actually walk to the drawers storing my paper! Much better than reaching across and above "stuff". I also organized my studio area so now my paints are much much better organized. Wow, again.

Licenses

I got my business license and my sales an use tax license! I am official.

Photo Trip

With my son at the wheel (so I could hang out of the window and take pictures), I set off yesterday to take photos along route 60. The photos I took were a surprise -- hay bales! So I am going to start to do a series of paintings on hay bales. I love humor in art!

Official Business

My business has now been registered with the county and the states tax department for sales tax reporting! Awesome.

Chapter 12

After chapter 11 which had some long difficult predicate logic proofs, chapter 12 is such a break. This chapter is on identities or "x=y" type statements.

So when I approached the proofs, my brain was still in "the more difficult proof" mode. It was somewhere about the third proof I realized that the proofs were very easy! My brain was making them more complicated than necessary! The first time I did one proof, I finished in 40+ steps. Then I decided to go back and redo the proof to see how streamlined I could get it. It decreased to 18 steps. Then I realized I could streamline it even more and I realized the proof had extraneous information that I did not need to use at all! Following is the ultra-streamlined proof.

The Proofs Of Increasing Difficulty

Embedded Proofs

Truly Grueling Proof

40 steps so I had to spkit it into two sections.