Lisa Call

Lines #9
©2008
6" x 6" – Mounted on stretched canvas
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Art Day

I spent about 4 hours in my studio today. That’s the most I’ve spent in a single day in a while – definitely joy! I’ve been working quite a bit of time on my website rewrite that the last few weeks haven’t been as much about art. While 4 hours isn’t a lot for a weekend day, when I’ve been known to do 10 hours, given everything else going on it was a wonderful luxury.

The above textile painting was the only piece completed but I have some more in the works. It’s listed for sale on my small artwork sale page.

I think this week will be the end of making these smaller pieces for a while. I may not have a large studio right now but I’m going to make some larger work anyway. I’ve been getting a bit antsy wanting to make something bigger after making these smaller pieces for the last month.

Time to tackle Structures #100 and see what I can do for that milestone. I’ve already made Structures #101-#105 so about time to get to it.

Home Front

We got our purple Christmas tree decorated today (the one I used for topping out the new addition) and after a trip to visit Cynthia Guajardo, to buy a few more of her ceramic pieces my Christmas shopping is about finished. I’m giving art and handmade gifts as much as possible this year. Except the nephews, 9 year old boys have their limits.

On the construction front, things are getting to the point where I have to make a lot of decisions so it’s starting to take up a lot of my time. Today I picked out a bathtub, it was easy, I was in the plumbers garage, he had 1 to pick from, I said I’d take it. Big corner jetted tub – way more than than I thought I’d get but got a big big discount on it as it was for a project that went bankrupt.

Now I have to pick out faucets, lights, cabinets, etc etc. Walked through the house today making marks with the builder for where I want electrical stuff. My studio will have enough circuits for 6 irons to be on at the same time, each on it’s own circuit and after we talked to electrician the plan is to have a single switch to turn all of those plugs off, so I will always know the irons are off.

Why so many irons? Because eventually I will be teaching in my studio, and I want it set up and ready to go for when that day arrives. Figure it’s cheaper to do it now than retrofit in more electricity later.

ACEO #21
©2008
2.5" x 3.5"
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Yum

Today’s joy is brought to you buy some delicious pizza the kids and I had for dinner. Yum. We sat and savored every bite. Except my preteen daughter, who was practicing staring off into space and ignoring me, which I must say was great fun to observe, especially when she couldn’t resist and would smile at what we were saying.

Friday dinner with the kids – priceless.

Construction

They did work today, I didn’t feel like taking photos when I got home from work. So tomorrow there will be an update cause they are working on the studio all through the weekend. I think tomorrow I’ll have windows.

I get to go shopping for stuff now, faucets and bathtubs and a bunch of other stuff that I have completely forgotten. Not being a shopper type this is going to be a challenge for me, but I am determined to have fun with it. How many times does one get to pick out a bathtub?

My daughter wants an orange one. I hope they don’t make such things. How could I say no? Think they have any resale value at all? Wonder if there would be a matching toilet and sink.

In the Studio

I’m in the middle of making a new batch of 3" square lines paintings mounted on canvas. I’m also working on a new piece with a color scheme suggested by a reader. I don’t do commissions per say but if there are some colors you’d like to see in a piece, I can see what I can do with them in your requested size. If you like it, you can buy it, if you don’t I’ll put it up for sale on my small art for sale website.

The above ACEOs was inspired by Structures #99:

Structures #99
©2008
33" x 39"
$7000