Clyde

Working in a new commissioned painting:

Acrylic, watercolor on cigar box

places

The above picture is a pedestrian bridge in Mexico, a beautiful and yet strange place to walk on. The below picture is a place that you might have wondered about, I was so curious to see what 13345 Copper Ridge Road, Germantown MD looked like, do you know what it is?

Update on Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 09:49AM by Rosa Murillo

I forgot to add on my last post that the place pictured is the address to Post Secret. I was so curious to see how it looked like because I used to live not a mile away from here and never knew about the project until I moved away to North Carolina, so on our recent visit to DC we went to see our old house and I could not resist going to see what this address looked like. Sorry Frank, I hope you don't mind?

Who Does She Think She Is?

"Who Does She Think She Is?" examines some of the most pressing issues of our time: parenting and work, partnering and independence, economics and art. The film follows five women artists as they navigate the economic, psychological, and spiritual challenges of making work outside the elite art world.

regretting

I have been recently nostalgic of my past. Something that started a few weeks ago when I found an old diary that I kept since I was very small, maybe 8 yrs old and continued using it until I was in my mid 20s.

I can not tell you how amazed I was of reading it. It did not feel all warm and fuzzy, I think I remembered myself very differently. the things I wrote about! I am so surprised of how much nonsense one can write. I thought back then that my thoughts were so important that they needed to be kept for generations to come! I cannot tell you right now how glad I am that blogs did not exist back then. The things I thought were important, the things and people I pursued as important, as moments that had to be remembered forever, oh what a waste of time.

I used to think that I needed to say what I had in my mind because then later I would regret it and how wrong I was. I did things I shouldn't! Nothing life changing, but almost. A few times I stood on the fence of something that could have changed the direction of my life forever, and the only thing I can say today is that thanks to God for surrounding me with good people that helped me so that that wouldn't happen.

I remember one of my teachers in high-school once told us that "youth is wasted on the young" in a "go prove them wrong" kind of way.  I see myself when I was young, and I see how foolish I was, when I thought I was being assertive, I was just being foolish.

And then it hit me like a truck, what will I think of this blog in 20 years? will I read it back and see all this as wasted time? will I see it as something worth remembering? Because that diary from 20 years ago has an appointment with a lighted match.

Found Art Tuesday at Flickr

Hey, come see what's going on at the Found Art Tuesday Flickr group!!

Found Art Tuesday June 2, 2009

Yay!! Found Art Tuesday, in a Tuesday!  I got on the wagon again, it took a few pushes and some cajoling, but they won.

It is made on a cigar box lid, you know how I love my wooden cigar boxes. (I have a soft spot in my heart for these and altoid mint tins)

I made this blue bird as a study on color for another bigger painting I'm working on and I worked on both paintings simultaneously, so the timing worked out perfectly. I wanted to find the perfect orange to go with this bluish gray I had already mixed, and I used an online site that robayre shared on one of her blog posts, called Color Scheme Designer 3. It lets you find the perfect color balance to the dominating color you want to use. It is an online application, no downloading anything and it is online awesomeosity, give it a try when you feel stuck!

I found this quote today while browsing the internet for a good quote to write on it, and It reads:

"Don't lose heart CARRY ON! carry on with that holy stubbornness which in spiritual terms is called perseverance".

Perseverance, I love that word.. oh but me and perseverance are not that tight, we fight sometimes, we need to get our space once in a while, but I do try to follow her from time to time, just to see what she does, all tidy an perfect in brand new dresses. It makes me want to be like her, and that doesn't sound so bad sometimes.

Also, please note The Cuteness of the bird. It is almost non-believable. I can't stand it, It even looks like I drew some eyelashes on that thing or something because it looks like the bird version of Bambi.

This was left on a park bench at Birkdale and I got some picutres that I'll upload a little later...