My red & gold painting (creatively titled “Red & Gold”) will be ready to varnish tomorrow when I wake up and I’m thinking I’m probably going to enter her into The Square Foot Show, along with “Shimmer II” and “Sparkle“. Drop off for the show is Tuesday night but we have yoga, so Blake’s going to drop them off next Saturday instead. I’m still undecided if I’m going to go to the artist reception on the 21st or not. I’m mostly thinking “not”, especially because I don’t want to ask anyone to babysit and I don’t want to take the kids either.

At the same time, it’s a juried show and I’m kind of superstitious about things like that. Like, if you don’t show up, you can’t win. The universe won’t let you. Not that I’ll win anything if I DO show up (pretty unlikely) but if I don’t go, then there’s NO chance I’ll win anything. And if I didn’t go and I DID win a prize, I wouldn’t know about it until I picked up my unsold work in September and not knowing that long would probably kill me.

But at the same time I really don’t want to go, so…yeah. :o/

Anyway, this is what I’m starting tonight while “Red & Gold”‘s arms dry on my coffee table:

The chunky glitter on the left that looks kinda gold is actually  a light, yellowy green called “olivine” and the pink paper is actually a metallic light pink that came crinkled like that.

When we went to Curry’s on Saturday to get watercolour pencils, I got a whole bunch of papers that are apparently going to be discontinued soon and I’m wondering if I shouldn’t go back and scoop up whatever’s left because there were some awesome Asian & paisley prints that were pinks that DO NOT turn orange when I apply varnish on top of them (I bought one and tested it – at $4.95 a sheet, you’re goddamned right I’m gonna buy a tester first). I sold “The Devil’s in the Detail’s” today (well actually, I guess I technically sold her last month because that’s how Blake & I got to go see Hole, but my friend paid off the rest of her today so she’ll go out in the mail on Monday) so I could buy up that paper, but at the same time I’m broke as fuck right now and waiting on a cheque (that’s mostly going to go towards school supplies/new clothes for the kids) so I probably shouldn’t. It’s a shame to let those papers go, though. I wish you guys could have seen them.

That’s enough babbling out of me for tonight I think. Better get back to work.