Lisa Call

Packaging Day

I have a couple of textile paintings in shows coming up in January and today was the day allotted to package up the work and get it out the door. I always think I can do this quickly. I am almost always wrong.

In the tiny house it takes the first hour just to locate the work. All of my textile paintings are rolled on tubes and stored in the top of my closet. It’s a guessing game to figure out which roll a piece might be one.

Next step is to find the board to hang the piece on the wall. These are all bundled together in neat piles behind my couch in my living room. Today I could find neither board so I re-purposed boards from other work instead of cutting more wood.

Next up is steaming the work flat and letting it dry pinned to my design wall and lint rolling them as the cats are not welcome to travel along. Then finally rolling on tubes, putting in plastic and the paperwork and UPS website for labels, etc etc. Oops, cancel the shipment cause I put the wrong label on the small package and start over.

Over 3 hours later I have 2 textile paintings ready to head out the door. And while I was at it I packaged up Lines #6 and Lines #9, both headed to new homes tomorrow. Thank you Katy and Colin.

This is the glamorous life of an artist.

Joy

In all of that there was much joy as it means my work is headed to a museum and an art center for an invitation exhibit and a juried show. And it’s also headed to new homes. Yay!

This really is the glamorous life of an artist.

I’ll post details of the shows later – I want to get in a few minutes in the studio before bed. Tomorrow is designated as shopping day – I have to pick out lights and faucets before the builders start picking out this stuff for me.

Since I was taking photos of the stuff I’m mailing I thought I’d show you the tree also. Very cute huh!

ACEO #21
©2008
2.5" x 3.5"
Sold

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