Slo-ooow Parade

by on 9/24/2009 9:23:41 PMComment on this

Greetings,

Welcome to the Cooper studio, Jefferson, Iowa, on the second day of fall. Regarding fall, so far, so good :)

Today's daily paint again landed on the "parade" canvas. I vaguely remember this parade that happened last June was kind of a slow one. The Shriners in their silly cars did lots of rev'em up manuevers. The politicians shaking hands along the parade route, lagged way behind their respective convertibles. Heck, even the goof driving the Bikes, Boards and Blades truck down the parade route stopped in front of us for several minutes. And he didn't even have any candy to throw at the kids! (yes, it's legal for me to say that--the owners were of course riding the parade route on bikes, their employee (Cooper-the-younger) was driving the shop truck.)

Anyway, slow parade. Even the painting of it is moving along pretty slowly. There have been a few personal trials (did you know when you react to an antibiotic it can take 2-4 days for the itchy red rash to go away?) (by the way, today is day 4, I still itch but it is getting better) But. I painted most of the day today, and it felt good. And most of the paint landed where it was supposed to. Sort of. After dinner tonight, I came back out to the studio to "assess" and discovered that the window right next to the easel has a multitude of white splatter. Darn. Would you like to see where the painting is so far?

It's got a ways to go yet. Like what is that glaring white triangle doing right there on the dad's shoulder? And the little girl really needs a face lift. The background is mud. Ha! At least I won't be at a loss for what to do in the morning! Thanks for stopping by.

Later, Cooper

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