started stretching the Birch Forest

Hello.

I find I never link up or seldom do and that is a waste of time. I used to have links all the time. I'll have to get back to that. I guess what that means is I am totally self absorbed. That phrase can have many meanings. Usually a negative connotation but it can also be sympathetic. The person who is introspective, (some would say isolated in many ways) powerless or simply has a very interesting life He or She is absorbed in. Saw the craziest show tonight, real comedy "Daniel Tosh" painfully cute and really funny, irreverent and perfect.

I started stretching the sold Birch Painting and regarding postage I neglected to take into consideration the weight of the painted canvas of 60"x48" which is considerable. So the painting gets a little cheaper. This is the third large painting of mine that this great couple have purchased. One of the couple happens to be a great painter I would love to own one some time. Regarding my Birch Landscape, it is one that I am particularly proud of and feel very happy that a family will be living with it. I hope they like it, they purchased it from seeing it on my site. Seeing one image and not asking for details and I didn't think to offer. Sight unseen a 60"x48" canvas arrives in the mail. Amazing the topics one can ramble on about. Phew.

The radio keeps going off but it is back on with a great blues singing man.

I've nearly finished stretching the painting and after removing, replacing many staples it is taut and I won. It is a good feeling as re-stretching is complicated because there is a fold, chances are and a challenge to make it fade. I managed to do it tonight after basically hanging my weight from step two on the ladder with the pliers, making it the slightest little bit tighter. Really hard on the hands I have to say. This is the first stretching I've done since my last show which I stretched just about three dozen medium size paintings. Crazy time. I had stretcher bar deliveries twice a week for a while. I made some good paintings. An old painter friend that I never see saw my site and emailed and said my paintings are beautiful and I had a sense of relief, after being overwhelmed with joy and emotion, privately.

24 starts January 17th, 2010. Cherry Jones is back as Madame President so you have to tune in.

tomorrow stretching for well being move the body

Hello. I'm going to burn some sage and preform my little ritual to rid the studio of my negativity. The house is to young to have ghosts. I don't think the land is to young. Wow, I wonder what this land was like four hundred years ago. I saw five or six deer walk in a line in the snow today foraging through the snow, tough times. I don't think the deer were here. I thought that I heard something about Roosevelt or someone bringing them here. I guess they could have come of their own free will, being hunted is not free will. Oh right, sage.

Back in EH and in the studio with the laptop. A very wise man said get the computer out of the studio but there are days when that rule has to be flexible. Even writing this post is part of the big picture. How's that for the most arrogant bit of crap? It really only helps me. Well for me that is. I can't help myself I'm in everything.

The music on 88.7 Montauk & Ct. is amazing right now. That's all there is to say. I can't remember hearing a DJ in the recent half hour if that. It's been a continuous mix of trippy, heady music with some vintage Stevie Wonder, Eno and heavy Rock instrumentals, steel guitar? could be Led Zepplin or Zeppelin, Don't know what I am talking about. Later.

So this guy is now playing a musician named Don something for the remaining half hour of his radio show. Before He started with Don's music He played Mr. Roger's closing song. It's such a good feeling to know your alive... right to the very end...by just your being you. It was a crystal clear version, it was perfection, like he was sitting right there.

I realized that as great as He was for young children He was also powerful and empowering to Mom's at home, my Mom who needed to hear some words of encouragement. Women that might not have had a close confidant to tell them that things were not there fault totally. This is probably not an original thought but it is the first time I've looked at Him this way and He was always a big figure in my Mom's life. Actually He would have been the perfect man for my Mom. Sorry Dad.

This image is not true to the painting, it's changed since this time. I think for the better, luckily