Wednesday, September 16, 2009

MEMORIES..PAST WORKS FROM THE SOLD SET ON FLICKR..AND TONIGHT'S PAINTING!!

Tonight's Painting..15 x 15 x 3/4 on wood. Done in Acrylics..blah..blah..blah...hehehe.
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WOW...It looks like a crazy person went further off the deep end, doesn't it? hahahah...I was feeling kind of nostalgic..and looking back on my works that have sold, and then started playing with Flickr/BigHugeLabs, and ended up making mosaics of my past work. There was another page, which I didn't save...but, all in all..this is most of what I have sold in the last year and few months. I made my first sale on April 30,2008. Seventeen months ago. It seems like lifetimes ago. I look at most of it, and ask myself .."How did I do that??". This all started when someone told me to start at the beginning again--after I had whined that I was uninspired.

I was uninspired because of an accidental mold situation. (Nature Boy probably thinks I am crazy..) I came back from Folk Fest about 3 weeks ago...and got sick. Then in 3 days, I was well again. Then, I got what I THOUGHT was a serious sinus infection. I was so tired all day, not in a good mood, couldn't think..and was thinking that I probably had something SERIOUS wrong with me. So, the other day, as I laid down for my SECOND nap of the day, I was thinking to myself..what have I changed in the last 3 weeks..did I put a plant in the house, did I change laundry soaps, did I start drinking/eating something different...NO,NO, NO...Then, it HIT me. A small child's table that I had put in my art room. I had bought it awhile back at a yard sale, and had my husband put it in the art room. It had been in there for about 3 weeks!!. I pulled myself up, and went to look at it, flipped it over, and there it WAS---MOLD!!! I immediately had it removed, and sprayed EVERYTHING in the art room with Lysol..and within 30 minutes, I was feeling ALIVE again. I have been so happy (to feel like I'm NOT dying is TRUELY a blessing!!)...and so..Where was I going with this story?? ...oh well..LOST THAT TRAIN OF THOUGHT..maybe I could blame it on the mold...hehehhe.

Anyway..Live Artfully! ~~Suzan~~

7 comments:

Cindy said...

All I can say is - WOW!!!

I don't know how you get so much done!! And have time to go and sell it!!!

Great work and thanks for sharing!

Оksana said...

Me too! Wow!
Very interesting job!

Mary said...

Good morning Suzan, quite an impressive body of work!! Love the new painting too. I like your bold colors.

Oh and the memory thing, not mold, age.... lol

Hugs!!

Glad you are feeling better!!

Jazz said...

Lovely mosaics - and yay for finding the mold.

Michele said...

First I love the new painting! It's reminds me a bit of Hundertwasser (sp?), very cool.

And second Wowie you've done a lot of art! Congratulations on accomplishing that, and selling them! You style is very inspirational and fun, love looking at your pieces!

And third, I'm so glad you found the source of your illness. Mold is such a nasty thing. Unfortunately we have a huge issue with it, living in the mountains, and my studio downstairs constantly has flare ups. I've taken to making an art space upstairs so I don't have to breathe it all the time. Yuck!

Dana said...

Beautiful paintings, excellent work, you're an amazing artist Suzan !!!!

Crissi Harvey said...

wow is all i can say to you have created some amazing work suzan and been an inspiration to so many of us, and im proud to say one of those pieces lives in the uk with me and i love it so much. happy to know your feeling better and found the source of the problem.

hugs crissi xx