Showing posts with label Palette Club. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Palette Club. Show all posts

Thursday, May 15, 2008

No Chimney for Old Men

or Women!! (read the title again). Today was spent preparing to demo the chimney box in the wall of the kitchen so we can begin to remodel the kitchen. When we had the roof redone, we had the workers take the 100+ year old brick chimney down to the roofline. We should have had them demo the stuff in the attic, but noooooo....we were kicking ourselves - all the way up to today.
Here is the chimney box in the kitchen.

I know - tacky paint job..done by previous owner. BTW we painted the living room yesterday. It looks so good.


Then hubster - grand engineer that he is - created a ramp so we could move the bricks from the attic to the ground outside the bathroom window.

Then I stood on a ladder outside the bathroom window, which doesn't open all the way, because it hits the rain gutter...

and then catching the bricks and making sure they don't pummel through the window panes on the half-opened window...

and finally tossing them (hught..phew) over my shoulder to a pile away from the side of the house, so as not to goudge the paint on the outside of the house that we just finished in the fall.

Hubster had an equally - if not more tasking job, up there in the dark attic...but the brick chimney is down to below the ceiling joists, so now we can continue to demo the wall from inside. A large cabinet will go up against that wall in the first photo, so it had to be done.
No art, but Palette Club meeting tonight, near Cawker City. Will be able to see my artist friends. Yeah!

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Studio Time!!

Been without internet and TV, oh no....for 24+ hours. Then as the ice starts to melt, voila!! We are back online with the world again!!

I spent most of the day in the studio (thanks A.E. for the suggestion, although I didn't see it til today, your vibes came my way!) Since I have had horses on the mind, I got out a photo of a horse that was at my dear friend Kira's ranch in the Colorado mountains. I DO enjoy painting animals the most!!

This acrylic painting will be a 'traded' gift at the Palette Club Chili Supper/Get Together that I will attend in Downs tomorrow evening. I also finished the Belgian horse pastel that was started at the Kaye Franklin class last month. I will post it later.

My stepdaughter graduates from MSC in Denver on Sunday. We are going. Back in Denver for a brief time is just what I need.



Kira's Horse 6 x 8, acrylic on RayMar board

Still Truckin' Along

  Yep - I am still doing ART - making MARKS - giving it an almost daily START - however, I am just NOT in the space anymore.  (and I will ...