I spent the morning and the early afternoon getting the tree branches off of my trailer. It’s done. I did as much as I could do by myself with loppers. Pulling the very tall branch off of the trailer by myself was quite a chore. I’m small. It was big and I’m sure weighed more than me. Luckily the neighbor happened to come out as I was bagging it all up, and she helped bag the branches. She couldn’t believe I got the big branch off by myself. But hey, I’m super Traci. Then a friend came over with a chain saw and chopped it up for me. More bagging. All of this resulted in 2 showers and 3 changes of clothing because the heat index today here was around 110, and the actual temperature got up to 102 I believe. I still don’t know if there is any damage to the roof of my Art House. It’s so tall and steep, I can’t just “look.” But in dealing with the tree, I did see there’s something going wrong on the back of my Art House. The trim is pulling off of the building on both sides. I hope it’s just the trim and not the actual siding. I’m not sure how to fix this, or if it’s a bigger problem than it looks (to me it looks like a problem). For now, I’ll pretend like it’s okay because I don’t know what to do about it. Anyway, on to the art!
This is Day 10! That’s 1/3 of the way through.
I want to work more on this series of reworking my photos. So that’s what I did tonight while I got my art on. This one is also 8 x 10 on canvas board. I worked it a lot, and have mixed feelings about it. But I’ll see how I feel about it tomorrow. I think the outlines are what’s bothering me. So as I painted, I toned them down with paint, which helped. I used a lot of metallic paint, which really doesn’t photograph or scan well. I want to do multiple versions using the same photograph. It’ll be interesting to see what the next one looks like.
I’m glad that more people keep joining! It’s okay if you didn’t start on July 1. Just make which ever day you start your day 1. You can see the rest of my posts for this project here.
whats the secret to reworking photographs? I can never seem to make them look anywhere near as good as you! mine just look retarded lol.
Im so glad you’re slowly saving your trailor! one branch at a time!
here is my work for today http://ravenscauldron.blogspot.com/2011/07/get-your-art-on-day-10-curly-locks.html
xx Courtney
It’s hard to believe that this is really day 10. I think that in all the time I’ve been blogging, I’ve never posted ten days in a row. 30 Days is doing me so much good! Thanks, Traci! I know we don’t have to blog about what we do everyday, but that’s the part that slows me down because I hate shooting photos, and I think I just may be getting over that. Not a lot over it, but a little. And that’s a big improvement! So onward to the next ten days!
I hope your art house won’t need major repairs, and I hope it cools off a bit for you. I just had no idea how hot it could get in Kansas!
I used to get slowed down by the photos too because I would take a gazillion wanting to get that perfect shpt, and then not have time to look through for the best one. So now I take just a few so it doesn’t take as much time.
Hope your Art House is okay! I’m still posting, just couldn’t find any words http://upstatelisa.blogspot.com/2011/07/silent-sunday.html
Stay cool!
Wow, we’re a third of the way through already! I really like your re-worked photo. I may have to attempt them again sometime soon… I hope the siding issue is minor, and no damage to your roof.
Here’s what I did on day 10:
http://hhcampbell.blogspot.com/2011/07/30-days-july-10.html
Traci, I’m getting my art on every day this month! I did one of Michelle Ward’s Challenges involving monoprints and a brayer, super love! http://daisyyellow.squarespace.com/vividlife/gpp-crusade-no-39-pulling-prints.html.