When people ask me how I am these days (and these days it seems to be often), I find my self replying “busy.” Then, of course, they ask “busy with what. “ So then I have to think about why I feel so busy.
Well, for example: Wednesday the shipping company I use came to pick up five boxes of paintings I had, with the help of my friend Brian, packed up on Monday. Two boxes are now on their way to the Linda Fairchild Gallery in San Francisco and the other three are flying across the pond to the Halde Galerie in Switzerland. In the evening Yoko came over and we played duets and I was responsible for dinner.
Thursday I went to visit my friend Rowena who very generously showed me a lot of techniques and ideas she has learned studying watercolor and other water media. I’m going to be teaching a course entitled “Aqueous Media” this fall and need to learn everything I can before school starts next week. (Most of my technical skills are self-taught, I must admit, so this was a joy to have her show me new approaches.) Then, to top off the enjoyable morning, Rowena made a delicious lunch for us.
After lunch I went to visit another artist, a photographer, who had asked me to come over to see her work. She is new to the provence and interested in finding avenues for her (very good) artwork.
Friday morning some people came to look at my work. They were visiting from Toronto and had seen my work in the Studio Rally Map. (They bought two serigraph prints, a red and a blue.) Then, fortuitously overlapping the people who bought the prints, Susan Wakefield, who actually was the printer who helped me with the prints (she did the dirty work, inking and pulling the prints, and I had the fun, painting the artwork on the screens) came for lunch and to talk about Aqueous Media. She will teach the two classes I will miss when I go to San Francisco in a couple of weeks for the opening of my exhibit there.
In between, I am painting, doing Pilates, eating, reading, sleeping, swimming when possible (considering the weather, as usual), taking care of the photography, slides, emailing images, etc. And this is just a typical week. So I guess I have been busy. But I suppose it would be smarter just to answer “fine” and leave it at that. Easier all around, for everyone, and then I might not feel so busy. Maybe.