GJ Willis' Art Notes

I'm giving serious consideration to calling in sick tomorrow. I really am sick! Ok, I'm not as sick as I was on Friday but I'm still sick, nevertheless. It's just a minor sickness. I have a runny nose. I think that counts as sickness. Anyway, the weathermen who said this weekend would be warm and sunny with highs into the upper 70's (actually it was cold, wet, and damp this weekend with highs in the mid 50's to 60's) are claiming that tomorrow it will be in the 80's. I don't know what if this time there right and it really will be the 80's. I'd hate to be chained to my cubicle with a runny nose knowing that I had a legitimate excuse for staying away from work and having my own little Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I guess I'll have to see how I feel about it tomorrow....

Today to liven up things I had a backwards meal day. I baked chocolate chip cookies for breakfast and ate sausage and eggs for dinner. I really have to work on this becoming a vegetarian thing.

On the art front I am currently working on a painting for the esbq art show. It''s a watercolor of a woman and her cat. To me it looks almost as though I've unwittingly channeled Patrick Nagel. So far I've gotten two positive reviews on the City Paper Bulletin Board about a painting I'm not entirely sure is finished yet called, Fairy on the Beach. Based on the reviews by regular folks I think I'll be putting it up for sale this week. Afterall, my goal is not to please some hoity tooty art critics, but instead to give the public what they want. By the way another one of my paintings sold this weekend! It was called Lovely Leaping Mermaids. Sadly, the othering painting I had up for sale did not sell. It was called Fairy Offerings. I think I'll do a repaint on it maybe eliminate the two kids and give over to my urge to add a guitar. Afterall, the fairy to me does look a little like one of the members of The Bangles.

It's cold wet and rainy outside. I have not been outside since Friday. Right now I'm battling a cold. I hate this time of year. I never know if I should dress warmly like it's winter or dress like it's spring. Last Fall I caught a major cold. It was the earliest I had ever got sick since childhood. It was mid October and I was sick as a dog. In a since it's kind of ironic because I've always liked the Fall and Spring but lately they've turned into hotbeds of illness for me. Oh well, I feel a sneeze coming on.....

In case anyone is wondering, I did have Orange Chicken for dinner on Friday, it was wonderful. :) Also in case no one has noticed I updated my website which is called, The Art of GJ Willis. Basically, I added three new links to my front page and changed the photo of me to a painting I rendered using Classic Painter. I changed the photo because it's no longer reflective of how I currently look. I have'nt worn my hair in a ponytail in years. I currently wear my hair natural in either twists or untwisted twists. The look on my homepage is the untwisted twist look. Anyway, the photo came from my MVA ID card and I never really did like it much except that I was wearing a black t-shirt. I like to wear black a lot. I wasn't wearing makeup in the photo... which is a major misnomer because I like to wear makeup. I was in a rush that day to get to the MVA early to avoid the lines, by any mean neccesary, make-up be damned!! Oddy, enough that picture is my father's favorite picture of me. And, it's also the most recent picture of me that I had around the house. I hate being photographed. I always end up hating the picture. Even if I were by chance photographed with John Cusack, I'd end up hating the photo, but never John Cusack.

I hope to be able to purchase Painter 6.0 or at the very least Painter 5.5 someday . I'm still kind of mad at Meta Creations for abandoning there art software. I also have there Ray's Dream Studio for 3-d Animation software. Now, if only I can somehow figure how to add images I created with that software to my web pages....