DAY 3 of 2015...

I don't have any new work to show you , so I will show you something from the beginning of time. Not the beginning of all time, just the beginning of my time as an artist. This piece was done using coffee..Instant coffee..and glue, paper, paint, etc....I think the year was 2008 or 2009. It makes me think of  this piece:

Caged Bird

By Maya Angelou

A free bird leaps

on the back of the wind   

and floats downstream   

till the current ends

and dips his wing

in the orange sun rays

and dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalks

down his narrow cage

can seldom see through

his bars of rage

his wings are clipped and   

his feet are tied

so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings   

with a fearful trill   

of things unknown   

but longed for still   

and his tune is heard   

on the distant hill   

for the caged bird   

sings of freedom.

The free bird thinks of another breeze

and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees

and the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn

and he names the sky his own

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams   

his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream   

his wings are clipped and his feet are tied   

so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings   

with a fearful trill   

of things unknown   

but longed for still   

and his tune is heard   

on the distant hill   

for the caged bird   

sings of freedom.

Maya Angelou, “Caged Bird” from Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? Copyright © 1983 by Maya Angelou. Used by permission of Random House, Inc

It was a sad year. We lost a lot of  great people in 2014. I think Maya Angelou and Robin Williams bothered me the most. R.I.P. You two were great!

Anyway..I'm a big, fat failure this year! Now, don't take that wrong..I meant it in the "hahahah..I haven't kept one of my resolutions YET" way..not that I actually feel like a failure. I've never felt that I was a failure..BUT, I could work harder to at least do something on my 2015 RESOLUTION list!! Oh wait!!! I DID do a couple of them..(I just had to go reread them!). I have woke up early both days (not counting the first), I have walked on the treadmill, stayed on my diet plan, and consumed massive amounts of lemon water both days...AND..I did pray for my enemy and read a small bit of the BIBLE each day...Maybe, I'm doing MUCH better than I thought!! This might be the first year that I made REALISTIC goals!!! My goals usually include things like "I am going to scale Mt. Rushmore, I am going to paint 1000 paintings...etc, etc.."

I'm just rambling here...touching base..blogging..you know. Now I am ready to write in my journal. It will be a written journal today..I bought a book on free-writing ideas..and am anxious to work through it. I would love to write a book...so, maybe one day I will.

I've almost got all the Nov./Dec. commissions done, and shipped. I will be glad when they are through, and I can go back to painting what I want to for the year! I miss painting for ME..which is one of the major basis for me giving up art shows. You are constantly painting what you think will sell, and I just want some time to paint for ME...what I want. I need to branch out, and do some different things. One thing that I will be doing is 2 guitars and a banjo...I have total artistic freedom on them...I think they will be the first thing I work on when I am done with the commissions!

I'm completely out of things to say..
Live Artfully!!