Monday, April 20, 2009
Forbearance
| Last night I finished another painting in the Forbearance series. Why I decided to do something so large (18" x 24") in red is beyond me. One thing that digital cameras hate is red and purple, and this little doozy was far too large to scan. So therefore, hours were spent adjusting color, contrast, saturation, and exposure. Oy vey. Here's the finished product:  Here's the trauma I endured:  Those smaller prints are artist's proofs. Want to know how much I spent on archival papers and inks? Yeah. I don't either. Wanna know what else I had to endure this weekend? A bunch of crap movies. How often do I watch movies? Rarely. VERY rarely do I dedicate 2 hours at a time of sitting, and 4 hours of my weekend were wasted on brain melting stupidness that I'll never get back. Okay, yeah. The stupidness will come back to me in gobfuls, but I won't be sitting for it that long. I can almost guarantee it will be random, and it will involve public humiliation. So first runner up in dumb movies du jour was the remake of Amityville Horror (although I fully appreciated Ryan Reynolds soaking wet and flexing his muscles.) All is not lost if you simply save your time and do a google search on screen shots of Ryan in the rain. Winner of the Raspberry Awards was "Death at a Funeral". I think it was supposed to be funny. It wasn't. Trust me. I don't think I felt a flicker of amusement. My lips were never inclined to head North. Not even a smirk. Grimace, oh yeah. There was a poop of the face scene. That's the closest I came to smiling. Ending it on a happy note is Ryan san shirt. He isn't wet here, but sweaty, angry, and wielding an ax. And that's hawt.  |
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Easter 2009
| Wake up View Show and Tell of what the Easter Bunny brought Call out of state family Do barn chores Pick up Easter "grass" Eat breakfast Drink coffee Pick up Easter "grass" Do yoga Take shower Pick up Easter "grass" Cook Easter dinner Pass out "Honey Do List" Clean house Pick up Easter "grass" Drink wine Entertain and feed guests Clean up Pick up Easter "grass" Make "To Go" plates Worm puppies and give vaccinations Say goodbye to guests Pick up Easter "grass" Worm horses Wait for horses to dry from the rain Put the horse blankets back on. Pick up Easter "grass" It's now 6:30 pm PST. Time to digest mass quantities of ham and potatoes. *yawn* |
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Don't want to jinx it but . . .
| House is clean Barn is tidy Yard is acceptable Orders have been sent Updated the Original Art Page Studio is organized Family is healthy Friends are well Dogs are brushed Animals are fed Bills are paid Food in the cupboards Laundry is going Dishes are being washed Life is good. PS A special rhanks Tarah for posting about my art to the Seattle PI blog! http://blog.seattlepi.com/urbanfashionnetwork. SWEET. |
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
HUGE Art by Shano SALE
 ORIGINAL ART MUST GO to make room for the new! Cleaning out the studio and over HALF the original art MUST GO! Huge paintings, small paintings, and everything in between- All one of a kind and priced starting as low as $60! To view ALL the art click here: http://shano-studio.com/originalart.html To view the art on SALE click here: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=99376 (click on the original art category) NEW Website The website is currently under construction, but still enabled and fully functional. To see the direction in which the http://www.shano-studio.com website is going, please take a peek. Now categorized are the Top 75 selling prints, plus all the other top selling prints. You would think it would be easy to narrow it down to 75, but not at all! Simply click on Purchase and then Limited and Open Edition Prints. Keep up to date with Shano via social networking: http://www.shano-studio.com http://www.artbyshano.etsy.com http://www.myspace.com/artbyshano http://artbyshano.blogspot.com/ http://twitter.com/artbyshano http://www.linkedin.com/in/artbyshano |
Monday, April 06, 2009
Stoopid is as stoopid does
| WARNING before you read. If you read my blog, you know that I don't waste my time worrying about fragmented or run-on sentences, prepositions, improper grammar, or verb tenses staying in one format, or any of that other crap that I had to actually think about when writing a term paper. If I did bother myself with such annoyances, I would never have anything to say. But rest assured, the spell check has been hit. So what if the occasional word is missing? Fill in the blanks. Your guess is as good as mine as to what I was trying to say in the first place. Point is, I was once educated, but partied too hard to retain any of the knowledge and now I'm just too tired and lazy to be bothered. It seems that most artists post FAR more frequently than me. And although I have a lot to say, I don't always have the time to say it, or can configure any of my many random thoughts I have at any given moment in to a coherent sentence. But I'm gonna try even if it means Twitter status blogging. And I'm going to start by blogging about nothing in regard to artwork. Why? Because I'm compiling all my existing pieces together to list for sale on Etsy or Artfire or even eBay. And because I am so completely overwhelmed by it all, I'm going to have to deal with it another time. Probably not tomorrow, but maybe Wednesday and that will be like a TON of bricks released from my chest. So, get ready because the sale amount that I sell them for is not as important is GETTING them out of my studio. Not because I don't like the paintings or they aren't worthy, but because I'm not letting myself create new paintings until I sell what I have, and that is VR VR hard. Imagine a brain artistically imploding. And now that I have a CLEAN art studio with electricity and lights, I'm absolutely Jones'ing to get in there! So .. . On Twitter the other day I wrote a one-liner stating that I have stupid goats. Surprisingly, I received a ton of hate letters because of it. To goat-lovers: I have stupid horses some days. Stupid dogs other days. My chickens (rather John's chickens) are ALWAYS stupid. God knows, I'm the first to admit that I have stupid days. Where are the emails stating that I'm misunderstood and not stupid?! Stupid is a great adjective and noun. IMO, everybody, goat, human, or the like, is stupid some days, in some ways. Want to know how many times I followed a stupid human driving a vehicle that probably had an IQ of 150? Get over it. You are stupid to waste your time and typing fingers telling me goats are not stupid. Hey- I'm stupid for spending the time typing this to tell you that goats and other life forms can be stupid. It's all hella stupid. On another note, I gotta go veg and be stupid because it's late and that's the only way I can get to sleep at night. I bet my goats are sleeping well though. Definition: not intelligent; irresponsible Synonyms: brainless, dazed, deficient, dense, dim, doltish, dopey*, dull, dumb, dummy*, foolish, futile, gullible, half-baked*, half-witted*, idiotic, ill-advised, imbecilic, inane, indiscreet, insensate, irrelevant, laughable, loser*, ludicrous, meaningless, mindless, moronic, naive, nonsensical, obtuse, out to lunch, pointless, puerile, rash, senseless, shortsighted, simple, simpleminded, slow, sluggish, stolid, stupefied, thick, thick-headed, trivial, unintelligent, unthinking, witless Notes: stupid refers to lack of ability while ignorant refers to lack of knowledge |
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Safe Horses Charity Event
 "Wild Mares" Original Art painting for auction Save A Forgotten Equine presents... HeART of the Horse, an Art Show & Auction to benefit Equine Rescue http://www.safehorses.org/ Sunday, April 5th, 2009 exhibit 2-7pm ~ silent auction 4-6pm Abbey Ballroom 1902 South Fawcett Street Tacoma WA 98003 Hors d'oeurves will be served and beer & wine will be available for purchase Come support local artists & photograhpers for an afternoon of Art, Photography, Music, Food and FUNd-Raising to benefit Save A Forgotten Equine (S.A.F.E.) http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=46891659725 |