Better - 3

Acceptance/or not

Today's email held news that "The Girls in the Grass" didn't make final jurying into the Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Competition.

This was a slightly more than slight blow as I'd become used to being booted at initial digital image stage.

Pal who helped me drop this year's piece at the fair said that she liked this work better than last year's painting. So, although I am aware that Anything Can Happen, I was at least optimistic. Alas. The sheep will be coming home to graze on another wall.

It WAS an experiment all along. The template for "Seth and the Girls" (accepted and SOLD at last year's fair) had been rolled up since last July. My little brain had an idea: just for the halibut do same scene in same size, but in different style - 

So that happened.

I am a tad sad that the herd will not be on the gallery walls, but I am not sad that I tried this experiement. Oddly, both hubby and friend said that they preferred this second painting to the much-more finessed first.

So it goes.
I wasn't "good" this early morning.
I am "better" now.

Fare-thee-well,
Sue Rowe

(And still No. 1 ["We're Number one! We're Number One!" sigh] on wait list for Powderhorn Art Fair this coming weekend, though am eyeing options for rare free Summer weekend. One must almost always appreciate one's options.)

**Just notified that we are IN Powderhorn - Yippee! But probably won't be in our usual spot.  Now to cross paws for good weather through packing up... No, I will not be "greedy" about Luck. Minneapolis, here we come!

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Upcoming events:
Thursday night, Aug. 3rd: Phipps Center for the Arts - Hudson, WI. Two improv drawing sets. One at regular Members' Show Opening - 6-8 PM. Second at ticketed Members Bash: 8 - 10 PM  (Tickets are 15.00/20.00 - contact Phipps for more information. Adult beverages and finger food will be available at later doings.) 
My Members' Bash set is scheduled for 8:20. Now to see which Sue Rowe shows up - eek! (Yes, there still is the Bashful Shrinking Sue inside loud flailing-arms Sue... really.)

Aug. 12: Bright Beach Art Festival - Duluth, MN
Aug. 25 - 28: Artstreet - Green Bay, WI
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Forgetting

I try to remember and live by this. However, I most often forget as soon as I remember.

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Easy is right. Begin right
And you are easy.
Continue easy and you are right.
The right way to go easy is to forget the right way
And forget that the going is easy.

- Chuang-Tzu

from "The Little Zen Companion"

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Wishing I could stay staring at Yoda and water and sky and sun, with Mr. Mozart's piano music  continues in the foreground, but tasks are the order of the day.

This is not all-together a bad thing. But placing priority and giving the right amount of time to each thing "needing" doing can wear a person out WAY too early in a lovely morning. In fact the greens and eggs, and once-hot tea, are cooling as this is typed. The curse of the accidental multi-tasker.

(Excuse me while I partake of this tasty and "good-for-you" breakfast.)

And, because of a few posts on the Facebook  we may have accidentally made today Happy Shiny Pony Day. Make of this what you will.

On to shipping orders, picking orders, matting and framing a "Hudson," working on two or three new original pieces, working at American Gothic Antiques, and a bunch of etcs. A sort of normal day.

Wishing the powers of Samantha on "Bewitched" were mine - a twiggle of the nose and CLEAN ORGANIZED HOME and STUDIO.  "It is to laugh...."

But BLOG can now be crossed off yesterdays list - huzzah!

And on to preparing for Green Bay's Artstreet this coming weekend. We did not get juried in last year, so am looking forward to being in Lambeau Land again. With good weather and cheerful crowds.

"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone." - Lin Yutang

Decisions.... decisions...... Let the Listings begin!

Oh, and the bears and I are a feature story in "Stillwater Living" this month. If I can make it into a glossy lifestyle magazine ANYBODY can! It is a nice article, but, if you read the article please note that I spelled "bridle" correctly (not "bridal", and that Todd has been a local since forever.

Fare-thee-well, and it's the mixed emotions of State Fair Time!
-Sue

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