Making Do with What You Have

nothing fancy but it still works

Still a year later and I'm not out of limbo with my art. Not able to commit to a real space for my art because of constantly having to do more paperwork for bureaucracy. US - Greece...back and forth I go. Ugh!!!!!!!! Ok, enough of my poor little me fit.

While I wait, I continue to draw ideas ( aka short hand drawings ) and some of them even make it to a proper drawing. This means that they stand a real change of becoming a painting one day.

In the photo to the left I have made a rough frame to stretch a canvas for a painting that was too large to just be taped down onto a board. I haven't purchased any power tools to make my frames yet because I don't want to jinx myself. I know silly but power tools are expensive and having large canvas properly stretched over frames takes up a lot of space too.

This means that I have temporarily returned to the beginner / student way of making a frame. That's why you see a hand saw and simple miter box in the photo. Don't fret. This is just a temporary frame for the easy of painting. It did take me back to when I would demonstrate how to make frames, stretch canvases, and other tricks for the students at Savannah Collage of Art and Design. I'm very thankful for all the skills I have picked up over my many years.

Painting close up

The blue painters tape that you see around the edge of my painting is to keep the sides of my painting clean while I work. In a couple of days I will be removing this painting from the temporary frame and rolling it up to take with me when I travel back to the US. Yeah, more paperwork.

I'll be in the US for a month and I just don't want to stop from painting anymore. So, my work will just have to travel with me. I'll have to blog about that process of traveling with unfinished artwork for anyone who is interested.

Still painting, Lisa