i did some poking around in my art room today. searching for the last gouache palette grid i painted. i dug through the paper drawers, in the closets, and drawers, in baskets, way in the back of my various desks. when i couldn’t find it i started blaming people. someone hid it from me. but who?!
i abandoned the search and proceeded without it. time to refill the gouache palette. i wanted to make sure i got the right paint in the right pan. 90% sure is not 100% ya know? without my diagram it’s very possible i could goof and mix a cracking gouache with my good schmincke tubes. where the devil is that palette card?!
i didn’t refill all the pans. several hours later i found the grid i’d been searching for. i cut it up last year so it would fit in a desk organizer on my main art table. in other words it was hiding in plain sight. by the way, i overfill the pans because they shrink. i’ll push my thumb into each one tomorrow when they’re still soft and indent the mound of paint.
i’ve missed painting with gouache.
this sketchbook has 7 gouache paintings of my bookcases that i did last year and they might be my fav work that i did in 2017. i started this one today and i’ll finish it tomorrow. am i back in the saddle? i don’t think so. but i’ve got one hand on the horn and i’m trying to swing a leg over.
missus was monitoring my mad search through every nook and cranny for the missing palette grid. i think she knew where it was all along but was afraid to try and intervene. i was in active blaming stage after all.
my walk this morning was sublime.
these koi look like a monet don’t you think?
it was cold and quiet this morning. the gardens were sleepy, the air was milky. the moment when the sun gets high enough to start illuminating everything is a wondrous time. love my sojourns to the gardens more than i can say.
okay…i’m going back to my art table to play with my gouache. see you soon!
I love that expression “active blaming phase”.We ae chronicly untidy and my daughter who lives next door tidies us occasionally and also borrows items of art supplies , food ,sewing equipment.Occasionally I have been known to blame her or my significant other for things I have mislaid/tidied/given away in a fit of anxst about having too much stuff.
I always love seeing your Huntington photos. I visited once, seven years ago, and it has stayed with me ever since.
I lost my car in the Winn-Dixie parking lot yesterday. Again. I tried to act like it was the most natural thing to walk the aisles of parked cars while lugging 3 overloaded bags of groceries. From now on I’m going to consistently park in the same aisle on every visit even if I have to hike a half mile in 1000% humidity to the air conditioned store door. We’ll see how that works. I hope you find your paint grid.
ha ha ha ha ha!!!! do they have piggly wiggly there too?
I’m new to this side of the country. Haven’t had a Piggly-wiggly sighting. That may be a mid-west chain. I’m not sure.
We have both Piggly Wiggly and Winn Dixie stores in central Alabama. Come on over. I’ll take you on a tour.
ps. We call our local store the Pig.
I, too have spent many an hour searching for things I have misplaced. It got so bad that I started a list of things and where I put them away. It was called “Where I Put Things” and was a lifesaver until…..wait for it…..I misplaced it! Grrrr!
excellent idea. maybe it would be a good list to write on a wall.
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Glad I am not the only one who hides things from herself. This year I intend to finally get organized, which is no small task, I assure you.
Let me know when you finally swing that leg over, and I will break out into a hearty rendition of “Back in the saddle again…”. I’m still on the ground eyeing the saddle horn and waiting for someone to get me a mounting block so I can get my fat arse up there. So much stress in my life right now that it has killed almost all creativity. I did manage to do an update swatch card on my Daniel Smith watercolor palette though. Whoopie😐
And yes, Monet for sure. Pat pat the kitty cat!
swatch cards = fun!
When you refill your gouache pans, do you wet the paint that is still left in the pan? Or remove the old paint? Or just squeeze in the new paint? And why the thumbprint?
So many questions! I paid for Oh My Gouache and then got overtaken by family care issues and never had the time to watch a single video. But I have all of the supplies, and I’m starting to feel the itch once again. And I have a sweet pair of paint by numbers paintings that are yammering to be made into a sketchbook.
i just squeeze in the new. thumbprint = shallow depression for brush
I share your frustration (pain) when items are lost; however, Mary Norton didn’t write “The Borrowers” for nothing.
“i’ve got one hand on the horn and i’m trying to swing a leg over…..” just genius mary ann – you make me laugh
Wow, have I missed my sojourns with you here. With all my junk going on, lots of stuff is slipping through the net. But here I am, and your words and pictures do my spirit so much good. Love you, Ms. Moss!
hope you’re settling in..bit by bit
Hewwo missus… I wuv you. Will you be my valentine?
Just stopping by to say “Hi!”
hello & howdy!
Boy that blaming-sh** takes it out of you. I am so glad its Sunday, my morning walk has been given a snow day. Maybe it will warm up and melt in time to go birding later on the Platte. In the meantime its the treadmill for me. Sigh.
birding on the platte!
birding got snowed out too – the 2-3 inches was buried by ten more. Sigh today another snow day – COLD snow day. Have you ever returned home to find it just doesn’t fit anymore? Like last year’s jeans? A size too small?
Did you not find lodads of other stuff when searching? I always do!
yes i did! and it was great to look through the piles!
I often play the blame game myself, although no one else goes in my craft/art room. So if something is missing, it is on me to remember. I lost 10 tubes of Schminke gouache and hunted everywhere. Until I finally remembered they had their own case, that looks like a palette. Waa-la, hidden in plain sight. Can’t wait to see what you will paint with gouache. Love your koi photo.
oh dear you don’t wanna lose those expensive tubes! i’m off to hide some more things for myself to find next week. see ya!