My gut pointed in the direction and some smart women like Alanna and Carolyn and Anna and Elise and Marja-Leena wrote to me to encourage me to continue what I'm doing. Each told a story of their own decisions of what to blog, how much to share, and some doubts about whether or not info they share would be deemed important to others. It strikes me as funny that I don't feel these doubts in some other art blogs, but I'll think that through and maybe say more later. All I know is that, the writing here is as real as I can be and if my posts mix my daily routine and the art I want to talk about, well, that's honest.

Honestly, I have been bracing the new chill in the air and drawing and waiting for some paints to come and thinking about the surface on some Romare Bearden collages.


On Friday, I listened to an interesting interview on the Tavis Smiley show with David Driskell and more here at this project .

But the other project, I've been up to is playing the google game and scoring a small person victory with the phrase clerstory tungsten . Clerestoryis about the only word I have retained from my brief love of medieval art (Meyer Shapiro at Moissac and Dorothy Glass at Buffalo were enough to get me fascinated. Here's a google game lite to play at work.

I'm off to volunteer at a community arts event, meet some kids that like to draw and try to remember to get some photos of the leaves that are keeping my eyes busy. Honestly, amazing crimson and cadmium yellows all over my street which such amazing contrast to the gray, rainy street...

more soon, troublemakers, take good care!
Rachael