Daily Notes- Friday, April 15th. sunshine, a bit chilly but NOT Raining!!!!

 These canvases are very large.   And the artist pastes on canvas, paints it and then rips part of it off etc etc.  I sort of enjoyed reading the ripping things off part of the process.  I, at most, peel things off but I like the more active verb- ripping-- so I think I might just do that next time.  And then she pastes a new section of canvas over the ripped or destroyed spaces.  I have yards of canvas in the Guest Room Closet.  Serious Art Supplies live in the Guest Room Closet.  The French Folding Painting Stand.  The Wooden Painting Box with Brushes and tubes of good paint.  The Ordinary Art Supplies are in the Hall Closet by the Front Door.  With my Winter Coat.  With my Rain Coat.

It's Mending (the ripping and painting).  The basic thing about Life and Art. Mending.

I like the idea of the substrate not being solid.  Ripped and pasted.  Those are words I enjoy when making Art. Nothing about my artistic process is gentle or soothing.  It's a fight to the death.

I erase until the paper is gone.  Just a hole where the mistake was. (Deb will ask me to write a short story with those two sentences as the first line).  It would be a dark story.

My breakfast is almost finished.  I still have coffee in my cup and one quarter of my Bosc Pear to eat. I spooned less instant coffee into my mug and it's better (not bitter--ha!!).  I had been adding too much and the bitterness was getting to me.  And with the sweetness of the Pear- a fine combination.

There is a recipe for Bran Bud Brownies on the Bran Bud Box.  I am tempted.  But not sure the bowels can take that sort of punishment.  (another great first line)

I am reading (finished) Summer Heacock's book  "The Awkward Patch to Getting Lucky" which arrived from  Ocean City, New Jersey for my reading enjoyment.  I had no idea we could do that.  Get books from other States.  But...it happened and it wasn't by my request.  Spooky.  There are very funny parts of this book- mostly the "meet cute" in the bakery.  But....the relationship is tedious.  So tedious.  Why the guy keeps showing up is beyond me.  I stopped showing up.