The Weekly Skirt Report

The new version of this is being worked on and then I will probably just ween this off... dunno yet.

So what's new for this week:

We have several things going on at the gallery on 8/25 at 7PM at the Defoor Centre. So it's free and the bar will be open... if you weren't able to make to the June show... this is your LAST TIME...

SEPT 11th from 2-4PM the gallery the following artists are there: Jenny King-Donna Thomas-Philip Myrick, Chelsie Neiman, and Jason Moore...

THEN OCT 2 the AAC Photography Saloon - will be up for their show - wonderful traditional to the oddly manipulated will be on display... So be on the look out... for that

AANNNNNNNNNNNNNND drum roll please -Charlie...

OFF THE WALL is on NOVEMBER 13 - if you are an artist, get with me at jill@scribblesstudios.com to get the details. This is a chance to sell your work at rock bottom prices $200 $400 $600 so start going through your studio, and make sure it's ready to go... OFF THE WALL.. so easy peasy...

THEN this really uber-creative couple the Clemmers will be showing their REALLY unique process in which they print photos on non traditional surfaces. Like WOOD, and Metal. I think this isn't your papa's photo hobby stuff. We will be talking to them soon about it so we can look smarter...

THEN starting in January we have a BIG mural show going up... it will be in honor of MLK and we will be announcing it soon.

So be on your best and we will have a great rest of the year.

How Young We Used To Be

You know how young we used to be

2010 - Jill Kettles

You see my picture on the wall

I was young and no good at 6ft tall

Strung out through my mind

And robbing myself blind

That was back awhile

Long time ago and just the other day

It was a birthday

A wedding and a funeral

that just passed by

You know how young we used to be

Just me you and free

Nowadays I wear a St. Michael Coin

Hoping it will see my crying

It keeps me safe at bay

I kiss it every night when I pray

You see how the clock has got me

Right between the eyes

With a busted nose

To match my heartbreak

You know how young we used to be

Just me you and free

The Weekly Skirt Report

This time: Love and Happiness

*...makes you do right makes you do wrong....* -Al Green

What makes your art form happy. Is the prepping, the journey or the end result? Is it the stops or the u-turns? I usually have a basic idea - and then I start to paint to see how it goes. I tend to stay on the path and not sway, but what I have a hard time doing is - coloring outside the lines. I've been doing the same type of thing for years. I've not sold, but everyone seems to like it.

So I try now and then - like my picture postings did I do it? I try to get looser then I feel bad that I'm not doing what I was doing before how that affects me.

Guilty? Ugh, yes.

How will I know it? Does this bother you too? How do you work through it? I feel like if I just push myself through the paint and the image, then I will get it done. If I walk away from it, then I lose my connection... I try to draw it out from time to time or use paper as my canvas, to not waste but that too is another animal.

So how do you push and pull your way through?

Best of-s this week:

PASTRY SHOP: Douceur de France on Powder Springs Rd near the square. I'd see this place from the street a few blocks over but never made it... so we spent $35 bucks there... ouch! Very good all over. Just don't go in the AM for it's WAY too busy. The owner is a small french woman and had a great cafe/pastry shop. I call it a chick joint. For the men in there looked miserable. I guess it's safe to say: Paybacks are mofos?

Burger's Market -score again. I swear the Marietta Square one - is SO HARD to park there. UGH.

Went to REVive Coffee - one to see an artist's work, Chris Hamer - which my husband loved two to have a cold mocha frappe - yummmm and get the person's name to put my name in the hat for showing. It was a roasters paradise...

BBQ: Mr. D's over by South Cobb High School - small little place and their sauce is sweet and tangy. This was the 2nd time there, I had Brunswick Stew - very good and hubby had pulled pork. Again, good.

Then I tried my app: ALL RECIPES: Dinner Spinner to look for something different for dinner. All Recipes it's called. I found Macaroni Meatball Soup. Well I don't know why I didn't see the MEATBALL part or I would've bought frozen ones... anyways, I improvised. I had to add some more tomato sauce and then I turned it into a casserole: put cheese and croutons on top.

YUMMY. The Creme Brulee... eh.... well I've done better.

I didn't eat it but it was runny.... so in it goes to the freezer. Then I took Sugar Free choc. pudding and graham crackers - crumbled them and put them mini-bundt cake molds, and then lite whipped topping... that's for tonight.

As we glide into this fall season, let's see what we can do new.

Hubby and I have been going some where new and basically free for the past for weeks. The High - was basically free because we have a membership courtesy of his job. Then we went to the Falcons Football practice... it was clear across the city and beyond but fun to go to... that was free.

Our buddy, Giovanni's had a big write up in the Marietta Daily Journal about 2 weeks ago, I hope that helped him out. It also ran in their neighbor newspapers - yayayayay *throws confetti*

The Fall Art Season is done:

Sept 11 through the end of the year with various shows in betweens are -

Make Some Noise: Jenny King, Chelsie Neiman, Philip Myrick, Donna Thomas and Jason Moore

The AAC Photography Salon of ATL photographers - Oct 1-31st

The Clemmers - two image makers but with totally different ways to do it. They will be up in Nov-Dec

THEN *Drumroll* THE MLK SHOW - Murals galore!

New thing I've done with my twitter: all tied up and in ribbons and curls: http://paper.li/scribblesstudio/1312398617

NEW WORK: DONE - Waiting on Glaze to Dry

AW quote-It's all your fault....

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have - the part left out was: but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them."

WHY?

I think it's a self esteem issue. If you haven't thought about it - art is a dying art form. We are in the middle of being washed away. Especially with music. But I will stick with visual art first.

First we (artists) are being asked to draw out our lives in caves then we have to carve out walls in Egypt and while in Rome we are building for the gods for their approval. During the days of Jesus we HAVE TO DRAW judgement day you know why not - it's complicated. THEN in England we are trying to apease the royalty with finally we get over to the states and we are squashed. What is it with you all (the public)? You all want song and dance and something pretty to look at but you want it for free? Hmmmm no.

Then after a few minutes of pondering. Ok sure fine we get a show a big round of clapping maybe a new home and hot chick. But we are still unhappy. GOSH we are miserable. Drunk, surly, talk to ourselves.... can't have a relationship with anyone because we are married to our work.

Are we married to our work? That's another question.I think we are married - and we want to happy but we can't because so much is being asked of ourselves. We try to be shocking, we get frowned upon we do traditional and we get "why did you do this?"

So back to the quote: Warhol meant something by this. He meant it in a plastic way (using his own language) but whenever you say something this profound even in a joking way you meant something by it.

I think he meant to say: We are not pawns. We are not free-loaders unless you make us that way. Unless we depend on it because you couldn't pay me. We are your history book, bible illustrators, thought provokers, diary entries, room decorators, hotel lobby entrances, and main street square shockers. Are we worth it? Sure everyone is. One would pay for an lady of the night right? You'd have to or she bring her boss in the photo. Everything blows up and your life is a country song. Lost girl, lost truck and lost dog?

So back to our dying friend art: Poor thing, did we see it coming yes. did we try to do something - yeah sorta - not enough or we wouldn't be talking about this.

So, I say pay up or give up but I won't give up cause no one can put a price on my artistic journey. No one.

Working on quote from Andy Warhol

Working on quote from Andy Warhol

It’s a doozie. I think personally he was honest and thinking that a lot of artists don’t sell and at the end of the day they just want people to love them. It’s just that simple. And the only way they can achieve that is through giving it away. Which is sad because it’s not want we want, but some times it’s what we get in life that makes us stronger. So, I will continue dissect Warhol. That’s just my first thought of the day…

Paintings for Blog

Paintings for Blog, a set on Flickr.

Slideshow for new and older works