2012/365 - Day 147

working on the foxish creature and the tigery guy

Today my friends Andi, Jackbrown, and Annabella came over on their day off -- before the Gogol Bordello concert they were going to tonight -- to help me get the rest of the front bed weeded and to plant the new foxgloves.  They worked so hard and there is still quite a bit to do...and the off-and-on rain didn't help things much.  I have such great friends!  They plan to come back on Monday to finish up.

This evening and tonight I have been working on the foxish creature collage (canvas #4) and I have been wrestling with the (now ancient) tigery guy.

Slightly angled "before" stage.

The looks-like-I-didn't-get-much-done-but-it-was-slow-shaky-handed-work "after" stage. 

Still a long way to go!

This guy has been hanging around the studio for so long!  And he has had so many different incarnations.  Right now he kind of sort of looks like a tigery kinda guy.  I seriously doubt he will remain a tigery guy owing to my lack of painting skills/patience.

He has been precariously balanced in the tomato cage all this time.  

Tonight I decided to make him really secure in there.  I crammed in lots more cardboard...

...pulled out the reusable packaging materials and plastic bags...

...filled in gaps...

....then taped it all up really tight and quite thoroughly.

Even though the is very secure and very well balanced (as in not at all tippy) the tomato cage actually is that out of whack.

LOL -- it looks to me like it might belong in one of those roadside attraction "mystery houses" where things looks like they are upside down and you are walking sideways.

Wacky...but steady.

2012/365 - Day 146

flower sale and progress on Grammy

Today is the first day of Northville's Flower Sale -- Main Street is packed with beautiful flowers!

Joan and I went downtown to the Flower Sale -- thank goodness for the nice breeze/wind...that sun is brutal!

Sadly, there were no lupines (for me) or poppies (Sue wants to get some for Devon)...but the colors are just breathtaking!

Oooh -- my second choice -- foxgloves!  

I could only afford to concentrate on a small budget...still looking for lupines at this point.

I really, really liked these guys a lot.

The colors of these were so beautiful -- it was like a painter painted each one individually.

I love heuchera/coral bells -- I have quite a few at my house, but there were some varieties here I don't have...but that is way more planting than I can handle on my own.

Joan and I ran into Mary Starring at the sale.

I went back for some foxgloves.  Two tall plants and two smaller plants.

It is a really good thing that Joan has such a tall car!

I am going to let the foxgloves rest a bit in the back hallway -- a few of the leaves are looking a teensy bit shocky.  It is also really windy back there right now.

I need to clear a space for them and I need a break from the sun.

What a WONDERFUL morning!

Here is what else I did with Grammy last night at around 2 a.m.

I softened her face a little, gave her more nose and mouth, added the glass eyes (I got from them from the taxidermy place -- the black pupils were already there, I added the color).  The face isn't done yet.

She also got her other fingers/hand/arm attached.

That new hand is larger than the other one, but oh well...I like it and I really like the shape of the fingers.

It is a little hard to tell, but she is saying "it was about this size."