Color Cat Studios: The Tardis finished (mostly!)

Sunday, January 20, 2013

The Tardis finished (mostly!)

Okay - finally finished! Took it outside to give it a coat of varnish, and to paint the back side. The back would only accept one coat of paint, so I'll have to go back. Even when it's finished it's not finished!

We had a photo shoot of four of us for the paper from the Art League with our doors. Goodness, I haven't had so many pictures taken of me since our wedding, and probably not that many then!

They wanted pictures of me painting my door. Mixing paint. Holding my brush. Standing by the door. Smiling. Thinking. Serious. Holding my brush as if to paint, but not painting. My door without me...

Each of the artists underwent the same thing - then they wanted us together. With our doors. With brushes. Without. Smiling... goofing off... 'painting' each other.

The doors will be displayed all over Montgomery County in quite a number of places, a few here and there. The kickoff for the entire event will be at the end of January. Then at the Gala, all our doors will be auctioned off. I'm looking forward to it.

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Turkish tour

Another look at those natural color-sources. I asked about cochineal, because you couldn't just have that on a shelf, and yes, their deep reds are cochineal. It's a South American insect that is a parasite to the prickly pear. Owners deposit them into their fields, and blow them off and collect them once they're big. Then they crush their fat, bloody bodies for a nice, natural, red dye. I'm so happy to report that the rug we purchased has cochineal in it. I'm also happy to report that it's likely in your lipstick and blush, ladies, and if you drink cherry coke - it's in there, too! :)

'My' Chair

At our theatre the other night we had an orchestra meeting after I taught my sets class. After about a half hour, someone pulled me out of the meeting for a few minutes. When I came back, everyone in the room was laughing and pointing to the nice, uh, black leather chair. I had paint on the back of my shirt, and it permanently smeared all over the leather! The last time I went in the office, I noticed that someone had taped up the sign you see here. One way to lay claim to something! Well, it's not the first time, let's see, there's my driveway with many colors of paint, our carpet with Peter Pan green footprints, my car with yellow paint on the seat, my gloves, half of my clothes. It seems like everyone likes my painted clothes, kind of like already-broken-in-jeans. Maybe I should start a clothing line!

Color Cat Studios

Sunday, January 20, 2013

The Tardis finished (mostly!)

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