SCHOOL HAS BEGUN!

Or, should I say BOTH kids are in school at last!

There are several reasons why this excites me:

1. 105 degree weather should be ending soon.  Right?....No? Ok, in a few more months. (#$*%)

2. I won't hear "I'm bored!" every few seconds.

3. I can paint again!!!

Check it.

Virgo Time!

OK people, enjoy this last little bit of Leo energy today, as the Sun shimmies into Virgo at 6 pm ct tonight.

So if you have been having problems focusing on that project that requires patience and 

detailing, you've got some help coming.

See, while the Sun was in Leo we get a desire to create something.  

When it moves into Virgo, we get 'er done.

You just don't get succussful without working for it, right?

Every Virgo knows this.

And yes. Miss Virgin Queen was indeed a Virgo.

Some things

Has it for real been a whole week since my last post?

Well, let me catch you up!

Liam and I have been playing some old school Mario after homework.  

Zelda too.  

We love to play video games, and I'm back and forth on how good this is.  Thoughts?

Slowly. Very, very slooooowly, I've been painting. 

But for all those here in Shreveport, 

I will be in a great show at the Meadows Museum that opens September 7.

GO!

And finally, go buy this.

My sister told me too, and I did.  

Blend it with some almond milk, bananas, and strawberries, and it's awesome.

Did everyone have a lovely Full Moon last night?  

Well, I tried

Remember my tie dye pillow project?

I did it!

Sort of.

See, I was really going for something like this

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But I think it came out more like this

C'est la vie.

Whatever.  Ivy and got new haircuts and that's really all that matters anyway!

 

The tables have turned

The beautiful Angie, from This Muse Is Taken has interviewed ME!

Check it here

Now let's look at some Camilla Engman:

Tie Dye

 I am in desperate need of new pillows for my couch.

And I don't want to spend too much because of things that I live with that eat chocolate 

and another thing that drools.

So the kids did a bunch of this during their camp last week.  And I thought, hey!  If they can do it....

I would just use black, cause I'm on that dark kick right now. 

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Mostly I'm just sitting here thinking of all the things I can do when school starts.

Monday = FREEDOM

Meet Joshua!

 Joshua Chambers is quite the prolific artist.

I love his simplicity in composition, color palette, and subject matter.

In addition to being a teacher and father, he also just went through his Saturn Return.

And from the looks of it, did rather well!

1. Name, Astrology sign, and location please.

Joshua Chambers, Cancer/Leo cusp, Bossier City, Louisiana
 

2. What are you currently working on?
  
I'm currently working on acrylic paintings that will be featured at Graphite
Galleries for Dirty Linen Night in New Orleans.

 3. Who are your favorite artists?

Laylah Ali, William Kentridge, Mark
Bradford, Matthew Barney, James Turrell, Malcolm Liepke, On Kawara, Monica
Cook, Eric Fischl, Anselm Kiefer, Francis Bacon, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dali,
Daumier, Claes Oldenberg, Edward Albee, the list could go on and on.

4. What's the best advice you ever received about your career choice?

During a critique in my first painting class, my professor asked "Why do you
all want to make art?" Mr. Hunter tried to warn us of the difficulties it
would bring our love-life and finances. "You better have a day job, and
marry well."
Bleak, I know, but to this day I appreciate his honesty. A couple of weeks
later, I read this in an interview with Harry Chapin:

"My grandfather was a painter. He died at age eighty-eight, he illustrated
Robert Frost's first two books of poetry and he was looking at me and he
said, 'Harry, there are two kinds of tired: there's good-tired, and there's
bad-tired.' He said, 'Ironically enough, bad-tired can be a day that you
won. But you won other people's battles, you lived other people's days,
other peoples agendas, other people's dreams and when it was all over there
was very little "you" in there, and when you hit the hay at night, somehow
you toss and turn--you don't settle easy.' He said, 'Good-tired, ironically
enough, can be a day that you lost. But you don't have to tell yourself,
'cause you knew you fought your battles, you chased your dreams, you lived
your days, and when you hit the hay at night, you settle easy--you sleep the
sleep of the just, and you can say "take me away."' He said, 'Harry, all my
life I've painted. God, I would've loved to be more successful, but I
painted and I painted, and I am good-tired and they can take me away.' Now,
if there is a process in your and my lives in the insecurity that we have
about a prior life or an afterlife and God--I hope there is a God. If He
is-- if He does exist He's got a rather weird sense of humor, however. But
let's just-- But if there's a process that will allow us to live our days
and will allow us that degree of equanimity towards the end, looking at that
black, implacable wall of death, to allow us that degree of peace, that
degree of non-fear, I want in."
I didn't marry wealth, but I did marry a woman who loves the arts, values
them even more than I do, and truly believes they are a crucial aspect of
life. So I tend to believe I married well.

I was also told to "make work, always, no matter what, because one day
someone will want to show it so you'd better have enough to show".

5. Favorite place(s) in your city?

L'Italiano, the Red River Wildlife Refuge, the Gallery Fine Arts Center, the
Bossier Arts Council, and the Library.

6. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?
And while we're at it, what about a different era?

Paris, France. No question, no
hesitation. I don't think I would want to live in any other era. I like the
diversity of the art world, and society in general, of
the 21st century.

 
7. What do you usually mindlessly doodle? (do you have a picture of this?) 

Circles connected to each other by straight lines, kind of like scientific
models of chemical structures. I don't have any examples.

8. First website you peruse of the day?

I wanted to say Daily Serving. It's an art blog that's updated daily.
However, in truth it is Facebook.
 
9. What's the worst movie you've ever seen, but secretly love?

The GingerDead Man

10. Any pets? Any kids?

pets: two dogs - a Shih Tzu and a Pug.
kids: one three-year-old girl, Sophia

 

Thank you Joshua!

You can find more here, here, and here

New Moon!

There's a new moon on Tuesday and it's gonna be some big, boisterous, fun energy.  

It's in Leo you see, which is all about the exciting, dramatic,and romantic.

Emphasis on the DRAMATIC.

It trines Uranus in Aries so fresh new starts are definitely happening.

But why not put your intention out there now?

And get creative with it.  There's a lot of that going on too!

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And on a side note, check out our new black bathroom!