How has it been a week since my last post? Well, shit. There goes the "daily blog" idea.
In my defense I've just been really busy. I launched the 2025 Calendar Kickstarter and we started painting and repairing walls in our house in preparation of selling it. Right now my grandfather lives with us and is on hospice. He has pretty advanced dementia so moving while he's alive isn't an option because it would be too confusing for him, but we want to move as soon as we can.
The kittens have found the ladder to be very interesting indeed. It is their new favorite thing in the house I reckon. They spend all day going up one side and down the other, fighting over who sleeps at the top, and smacking each new cat that tries to join them.
There's a lot of things that go into moving, and with the enormous multi-state Highway 411 yard sale coming up I'm trying to round up everything we know at this stage that we don't want to keep and get it set aside for the yard sale. I don't live on Highway 411 but within sight of it, so hopefully people will venture my way and take some of my crap home with them.
After painting the front door I installed some privacy film on the sidelights. They cast rainbows across the front room/my studio for a brief period each morning. Today was the first time we saw it happen, and here are Notion (white kitten) and Quilt (clouded calico) on boxes of sorted junk checking out this weird new rainbow thing.
This week I'm working on a small set of watercolor paintings to take with me to Illuxcon next month in Reading Pennsylvania. They'll be available there, or you can reach out to Tatiana at TDArtGallery.com (she's my rep) to snag them before they go anywhere. I haven't scanned in the two I've finished yet, but they'll be posted in the next few days.
I'm also working on a few oil paintings that I've needed to finish for a while, and a sketch for what might be the last big painting I work on before Illuxcon. I'm not sure about that... but I don't want to jinx myself by over-promising, either. I do have to say that I've been on a low dose of nortriptyline, which is a tricyclic antidepressant that works as a nerve/neuropathy medication at low doses, for almost three months now. I have some kind of a brain injury (hopefully find out what that's about next month) and over the last four years or so (it's probably been going on longer than that to be fair) lost the ability to sleep properly, regulate my blood pressure, digest food properly, and various other "automatic" functions. Nortriptyline has given back most of them, and it seems to be getting better and better. The last two weeks have been the closest to what used to be a normal week for me before all of this started. So, while I don't want to say, "I'm going to finish a whole bunch of paintings before Illuxcon," I definitely feel like I MIGHT. And that's a huge improvement from, "paint? Well, how do I even start?"
Here's Velcro demonstrating what she does all day when she isn't pushing her sister off an 8' ladder, plus a little peek at one of the oil paintings I'm trying to get finished. And yes, my studio is FUBAR right now, thank you so much for noticing.
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