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Input setting up a still life! - 3/8/2007 7:28:26 AM   
88heather


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Status: online 		So I'm in between paintings and what should I paint next??.. have a statue lady picked out I could do, been thinking about just doing an abstract for fun, also have a sunflower in mind to start ...  Need to start my Nibble piece but want to do one now then my nibble piece...  Want to do an african still.. an all glass still..  also think it would be fun to do a figure painting.. but don't have a reference picked out...

I got up this morning.. Ryan got a cold again!!!! so we skipped preschool... I've stayed up later than usual.. hubby has practically been gone for 2 weeks.. he was in Moldova (first time I ever heard of that country) last week.. came home for one night then left for New York.. and came back this way to Belgium on Tuesday.. and he'll be home tomorrow..  I have been staying up a bit later.. and getting up early with the kids.. I need my lots of sleep.. so I got up this morning.. got Logan on the bus to school.. fed Ryan.. and stuff and then napped on the couch while Ryan watched cartoons..  Want to start a painting but i'm in decisive what to do?..  feeling lazy..  Just surfing the internet and looking at magazines.. though I should do laundry and do some picking up.. 

So someone make up my mind for me.. what should I paint next?

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RE: what to do???? - 3/8/2007 7:32:32 AM   
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RE: what to do???? - 3/8/2007 7:39:06 AM   
88heather


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Status: online 		Funny girl!!.. I did paint our basement here as it had this nasty wallpaper that looked like bricks and i couldn't bare it!.. so I ripped down the paper and painted it bright yellow..  But the rest of it.. I don't care.. we're moving in 08.. so its not worth it..  

though I can't wait to have our own house when we move back so i can paint rooms and decorate.. and actually hang paintings on the wall and actually care how they look.. Now I just put paintings whereever as decorating this house isn't high priority.

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RE: what to do???? - 3/8/2007 7:46:43 AM   
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Status: offline 		I would love to see the African Still!  OHHH do that!!  Ok, second choice, all glass still!

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RE: what to do???? - 3/8/2007 7:54:03 AM   
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Status: online 		I vote for the African Still. I would love to see what you come up with

What does your husband do? I mean I know he is in the military, but what does he do in all of the foreign countries?

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RE: what to do???? - 3/8/2007 7:54:44 AM   
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Status: online 		LOL.........African Still wins. Steph and I must have posted at the same time

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RE: what to do???? - 3/8/2007 8:02:18 AM   
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Status: online 		Hmm.. African still next looks like it will be next..  just feeling indecisive today and want someone to tell me what to do..

thanks

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RE: what to do???? - 3/8/2007 8:06:58 AM   
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I see a whole series of different masks coming on.

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RE: what to do???? - 3/8/2007 8:17:56 AM   
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Status: online 		Yep... there's another bus trip to Italy at the end of this month.. I'm trying to go.. kind of depends on hubby's schedule 

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RE: what to do???? - 3/8/2007 9:43:07 AM   
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Status: offline 		Have you started painting yet Heather? Oh wait you're probably sleeping...anyway, I vote for the African still too! 

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RE: what to do???? - 3/8/2007 10:01:40 AM   
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Status: online 		No  I haven't..  its 4pm here.. i'm 6 hrs ahead of the east coast..  I'm gonna set up tonight how the still will be and  prime my canvas.. but won't start painting or sketching yet.. hopefully tomorrow!..

just gotta think what all to put in it..   just feeling lazy today.. never got out of bed clothes!

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RE: what to do???? - 3/8/2007 10:22:53 AM   
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Status: offline 		I vote for African, too.  Heather, can we have input on the composition?  In other words, before you start, have the opportunity to critique your still set-up?

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RE: what to do???? - 3/8/2007 10:35:14 AM   
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Status: online 		Hey Donna.. sure why not!..   I'll even let ya'll help me pick which mask.. how's that sound?

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RE: what to do???? - 3/8/2007 10:38:05 AM   
88heather


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Status: online 		Just realized b/c of time differenc if I want to start painting it tomorrow.. I better set it up tonight.. colors wouldn't be good as it will be a nighttime photo of the set up  but ya'll should hopefully get the feel of it..   Hey.. one better.. I have a set up on my in my entry way with a bunch of African stuff.. I could photo some of my stuff if ya'll want to help me pick props??

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RE: what to do???? - 3/8/2007 11:03:37 AM   
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RE: what to do???? - 3/8/2007 11:07:24 AM   
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Status: online 		hahahahaha Shannon.. you sound like my husband!!!!  Oh.. i have a naked figure for my still???

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RE: what to do???? - 3/8/2007 12:20:34 PM   
88heather


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Status: online 		Ok.. here's some pics of the things I could put in..  I want to use the thin people..  I have the thinking man thin guy and the woman..  maybe one or both?  Those big masks in the back of this first pic may be too big for my canvas.. this will be a 20x24 canvas..  Also thinking of using one of the giraffes.. maybe the one could be in the front with his legs hanging off like they do here..  Was thinking with all the dark woods I'm going to need brights!..  so was thinking of a bowl of lemons.. maybe in that soapstone bowl ???  Already thinking background colors possibly in reds/oranges???  I don't know yet..   Also on the left the guy is a medicine man..

pic one:


pic two.. a bit closer of the stuff:  see the three monkeys for see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil




the zebra vase.. goes great with it..  and I think would look good in the still:  an older pic..  the planter with the plant may be good too instead of having flowers..  I was thinking if I used it.. only using it peaking out from the sides.. not the whole thing or anything..


and some more masks..  don't have the nigerian one in there.. but its too scarey looking to go in the still anyway..
these are really skinny.. like they are about 3.5 inches across and 12 tall..


this one is big.. but I think pretty cool..  might be too big for the painting.. ??


ok.. that's enough.. tell me if I need to give more options.

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RE: what to do???? - 3/8/2007 12:29:38 PM   
88heather


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Status: online 		I think i should use one of those jumbo masks in the first pics.. they are so cool.. those are the masks a coworker picked up for my hubby in Ghana and now in repayment I'm painting him a free painting of his pets..  there's just too much cool stuff happening in those maskes..if would be cool to work around them..  but I'll wait for some votes.  this will be fun for me!!

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RE: what to do???? - 3/8/2007 1:02:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		Okay, Heather, here is what I would like to see a photo of to see them together and laid out (don't kill me!).

First, the potted plant towards the back, and off to the right side (partly off the canvas).  Further forward, slightly to the left of center, the round mask that is on it's own stand.  I like the zebra vase, adn think I want it in there but have to see it in proportion to everything else.  Maybe a bowl of fruit - are you saying that giraffe bowl is soapstone?  Do you have a plain bright one (red, orange, terracotta) or wood one?  Once all that is arranged, maybe the medicine man, forward right.  Of course, I wish I could go play with them and arrange them!  LOL

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RE: what to do???? - 3/8/2007 1:02:31 PM   
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Status: online 		I like the mask  in the middle of the three, the colorful one with the dimond shapes

Pretty cool stuff Heather

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