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Keeping Busy

December 17, 2008 at 9:35 pm

Abstract Contemporary Textile Painting / Art Quilt - Structures #25 ©2003 Lisa Call

Structures #25
©2003
8"x 8"
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Doing A Lot

My days have been packed full this week.

  • christmas stuff - gifts, parties, cookies and cards – I really need to write cards – cause I moved and I keep getting cards sent to the old address.
  • house stuff – the builder wants to know stuff daily – what cabinets, what lights, where, how many. I make quick decisions but there is a lot to decide upon. Tomorrow I’m shopping for cabinets – woohoo.
  • work – I’m taking no vacation time this year as I need to save it for a big trip next fall so my only breaks will be the following 2 thursdays.
  • kids – parent teach conferences, today I got to particpate in a forum with the middle school about wolves – should we reintroduce them to Rocky Mountain National Park?
  • art – I’m graced with many art sales and I’m motivated and excited about making more work, both larger textile paintings and some smaller ones as I seem to sell them as fast as I make them.
  • website redesign – I’m still slowly making progress.

    • So I was happy today to see on my calendar I had a dinner planned with a friend. Yay! Time to relax. I was quite joyous she got held up with a client so I had 30 full minutes in the restaurant to sit and do absolutely nothing. It was wonderful. Enforced relaxing. Nice.

    Although dinner was nicer – great conversation, much laughing and really really yummy thai food. I discovered another great place to eat only 5 minutes from my house. Yay!

    The Market

    Now that I’m selling my art I’m finding the market for my work to be interesting. Occasionally things I have that I think are really pretty awesome don’t ever sell. One example is Structures #25 pictured above.

    This is a 5 year old piece, but it’s still one of my favorite smaller textile paintings I’ve done yet in those 5 years noone has ever been interested in purchasing it even though it has bee offered for sale several times.

    Who knows. Just interesting. I suspect the universe has very specific plans for this small textile painting and we just aren’t there yet.

    Construction

    Not a lot of big splashy progress but a few photos of siding and things in the walls. I’m without much of a kitchen at the moment, not that this house ever had much of a kitchen, so there has been no christmas baking yet. I will remedy that situation this weekend irregardless of the state of my kitchen. It is not christmas without homemade cookies.

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    4 Responses to “Keeping Busy”

    1. Eva says:
      December 18, 2008 at 1:26 am

      Another 3D-experience! And it seems to be sparkled with sunlight. The more I look, the more I find. That’s great!

    2. Diana Connolly says:
      December 18, 2008 at 9:26 am

      Trust me…don’t send cards to people. Out of the 25 or so cards I sent…I got one back. I think the way to go is send a group email in red and green font. Saves a lot of trouble. People are really busy this time of year, including you. Enjoy your holiday.

    3. Cheryl McClure says:
      December 18, 2008 at 6:13 pm

      Man times a painting I think is fantastic seems to be the slowest to sell. I never know why either. Maybe the artist has a different set of criteria for judging quality of artistic merit than the average buyer.

      On your comment on purple and violet the other day. I like it as well…same with yellow but I think both these colors are slow sellers generally. I can’t help myself though and I keep making them anyway.

    4. Lisa Call says:
      December 19, 2008 at 9:12 pm

      Thanks Eva.

      Diana – I love writing my annual card – it tends to mostly be funny with a little news. I also love getting cards – seems this year I’m getting almost none. Probably the wrong address thing.

      Cheryl – thanks for sharing your experience. I make a lot of yellow work. Hm…