Listening to Philip Glass

Published October 13, 2011 by rlmcdermott

Not done yet.  It seems like it is taking forever but it has only been two weeks this Monday.  A great deal more to go, perhaps, another two weeks.  I’m listening to Philip Glass while I work on it–the repetition in his music is hypnotic.  So much of art is repitition but, then, I’m repeating myself.  I used a new ink for this one and I can see that it is losing its intensity.  I leave them on my easel so that I can look at them all the time and, of course, the sun pours in through my kitchen window.  I tried this ink because someone told me  it was the most lightfast of all the inks.  I’m not worried, however, I have yet to go into it with the pastels.  Repetition,  pattern, color and Philip Glass, the things that are driving this picture.

OMG! I’m Hearing Voices!

Published October 5, 2011 by rlmcdermott

This is the underpainting of the paper drawing I’m working on now.  I’ve decided to go big and this is large.  Thirty-two by forty, or forty by thirty-two, I forget which, but this stands a little less than halfway between the ceiling and the floor.  Either I’m very short or the kitchen is very small but it looks big to me.  Ok, ok, I’m short and the kitchen is small but that doesn’t diminish the task that I’ve set for myself—collaging a whole bunch of trees onto a crazy colored surface that right at this moment seems bigger than you know who.  I made a mistake in the lower right hand corner—collaged too dark a color into a white area.  Someone told me that the Lakota Indians deliberately introduce a mistake into their art works–a place for the spirit to enter.   I introduce a lot of mistakes in my work; none of them by intention.   Somehow this piece doesn’t call out to me the way the smaller drawings do, “Hey, lardo, turn off the television and get over here and work on me.”  Irritating!  Perhaps that rather shrill voice I hear when I’m not working is the spirit that entered my work when I made a mistake.    Note to myself–stop making mistakes.  Wait a minute!  What’s that I hear?  A voice,  a shrill voice, saying, “Hey, lardo, get off the internet and get over here and work on me!”  Sorry  folks, I’ve got to go!

The Licious Sisters: Rocking it at (wait a minute!)–Where the hell were we?

Published September 28, 2011 by rlmcdermott

These are the Licious Sisters or at least some of them.  How many Licious Sisters are there?  Well, I’ve lost count.  Up until now we’ve been a pretty (yes, very pretty!) private group, but Rosalicious aka Gossip Nurse (that’s me) is ambitious.  The Licious Sisters started out as friends at work (we are nurses) and then discovered Facebook.   The Licious Sisters, now consider themselves to be Facebook Performance Artists!  What!  Yes, Facebook Performance Artists.  Have you noticed, or is it just me, that when you post on Facebook it’s like talking to yourself.  The Licious Sisters (famous for talking too much) don’t like that–so we engage in guerilla posting.  Unfortunately, Facebook is a closed system; so the LS’s have to confine themselves to friends, friends of friends and “liked” pages.  Nevertheless, we remain upbeat!  The most famous (in our minds) LS’s posts are the now deleted “Unmentionable Post” and, of course, my favorite “The Monoboob Post”.   The Licious Sisters in this picture are Hotalicious, John Luc Debonnair, Remilicious (the heart of the group), Fartalicious, Cougarlicious, Ellenlicious, Ronalicious, Marlenelicious and the always beautifully dressed Loialicious!  Missing Licious Sisters are Sourlicious (the most notarious Licious Sister), Truthalicious (if you knew her you’d know why we call her Truthalicious),  Rudy Grumpalicious (you don’t want to know her), Mirafloralicius, MariVicalicious, Jeanalicious, Jalicious ( a personal favorite of Rosalicious), Troublelicious,  Terralicious, Crankilicious, Divalicious  and on and on!  Sub groups of the Licious Sister’ are the Bromance Brothers (Lambchop, Porkchop and Joey-not-a-Licious).  There are also the Licious Brothers (Mattalicious and SJ) and the Savants–The Schedule Savant, The Float Savant and the Travel Savant (who is on administrative leave without pay!)    The various uniforms of the LS’s include yellow surgical gowns, pink crocs, tweety-bird scrubs, Liz Palacious earrings, red wedgies, coke-can necklaces, big hats, and of course a very large and very powerful strap-on jet pack.  The Licious Sisters also hold in their possession two (yes, two) Blow-Up-Dolls (The Jalicious-Blow-UP Doll and The Divalicious Blow-Up-Doll.)  The Blow-Up Dolls accompany the LS’s on all of their Committee Meetings and Road Trips.  The Licious Sisters are artists, a former dancer, a singer, nurses, and anyone they want to be!   Welcome to the Licious Sisters.