Photography

Ice Ice Bay-BEE

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The weather folks were threatening snow, snow, and more snow, with a possibility of rain and ice. We got a little bit of snow, but it was mostly rain that froze and turned everything pretty and slippy-slidey. Obviously, I’m taking an ice day.

It could be worse. I just got off the phone with my mom, and up north it’s blizzarding. Ball State is actually closed. I can count on two fingers the number of times the university has closed in the past 25 years. On the first, it was just night classes that were cancelled. The second closing occurred during winter break, when the entire city was shut down for a blizzard-related state of emergency. Classes weren’t in session, so it wasn’t like a real school closing.

It sounds like it’s pretty awful up there, so I guess I should be glad we just got the dreaded wintry mix and not a full scale blizzard. Still, it’s bad enough. The temperature is supposed to drop tonight, and we’re supposed to get more snow on top of all the ice. O ick.

Art, Paintings

Untitled Boat

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As yet untitled boat (in progress)
acrylic on canvas with collage, buttons, beads, and cotton thread
24 x 24 inches

This is an awful photo, but it was the best I could do with metallic paint after dark. I’m not anywhere near done yet, and haven’t decided exactly how I’m going to handle the sky. If we get the disgusting wintry mix that’s been threatened, I should have plenty of time tomorrow to finish it. Otherwise, it’s probably going to have to wait until the weekend.

One thing I didn’t account for, when I decided to add beads and buttons, was having to sew along the stretcher bars. NOT EASY! The canvas had adhered to the stretcher bar, which is normal, but pulling the two apart caused the canvas to stretch. It should shrink back into shape quickly, and if it doesn’t, spritzing the back with water will do the trick. Still, NOT EASY to sew between a stretched canvas and the stretcher bars. Just sayin’…