i had a few months of stormy seas and confusion, homelessness, despair etc., but i hung in and with help from my many good friends i am back in business journaling again. pheeewwhh! …. i'm getting too old for this doodoo. i am not at this time going to have the energy to journal the misadventures of the saga of the last three months… it has been interesting and even fascinating and unbelievable at times with many dreary nights sitting upright in my jalopy full of paintings and supplies… like a long lonely plane ride, where all you crave is to lie flat.
more tomorrow.
meanwhile tomorrow will be a day off from my post on the venice beach boardwalk, or, you could say my outdoor studio in the thick of swarming humanity and sunny california beauty.
i'm going to the sober musicians picnic tomorrow with jill and mary. they insist that i go and have a nice day with no stress. today i made no money and tomorrow could just as well go the same way, so i'm going to the picnic.
it's good to be back.
I_ArtMan
Welcome home Artman.I have missed you so very much.I am very happy you have good friends in which you can count on and this is soooooooo very important more so then sometimes money in the bank.It's so great to see your post I was hoping I could reply to it since Opera updated there has been to many glitches.Love to you.Eve
thanks for the welcome home eve. i thought about you and some of our mutual friends who are active journalers many times and couldn't wait to get back online… it was a terrible period of uncertainty.but it's over now and i am happy and content once again.i'm having a little trouble with the picture album program but i was able to upload a couple of pics.this is a painting i started on the venice boardwalk last week and finished during the week here at home outside in the garden.[http://my.opera.com/I_ArtMan/homes/albums/3846/boudoir.jpg]love,I_ArtManwhere have the smilies gone?
HI Artman,I am very happy to have you back and to know you are safe once again.. I was worried about you ! 😦 Do you have the check mark on disable smilies? I noticed this one painting you have in your photo album it's the one of Venice Beach I don't recall seeing this one before however, this one you have here I have seen and also stored it in my personal photo album on the pc 🙂 Are you working at a regular job now too or just doing the beach scene?So so so happy to have you home.LoveEve
Good to see you back! It has been sometime – was wondering where you were :)JCL.
Wonderful to see you blogging again, my dear friend I_Artman. Remember the poem I dedicated to you and left on your blog (journal) some months back? -well, I don't think you ever saw it in my subsequent blog, with a picture attached, all for you. I admire you for who you are and I send you my love and friendship.Peace,lokutusnow see <http://my.opera.com/lokutus_prime/blog/show.dml/15164#comments>
lokutus,kind gentleman that you are… you are a marvel among men.
eve,dear and feeling-some lady, no i don't have a regular job…. nor do i wish for one unless they paid me umpteen dollars. i am however doing community service of 29 hours to avoid paying a fine ($30) for an infraction… i.e. driving with an expired new york licence;you should hear my diatribe on the government taxing us to death with things like driver's licence renewal fees… and who can live without driving?i hardly make any money on the venice boardwalk but it's very entertaining and i can work there. read write paint meet friends.meet the world even. tourists come from all over the world to see this perpetual carnival of mountebanks fortune-tellers minstrels and artists; not to mention the fascinating array of homeless independents and madmen of every description. i know my destiny now. it's to record all this humanity just as lautrec covered the brothels of montmartre and degas immortalized ballet schools. it's very exciting and i am so enthusiastic i could burst sometimes.every now and then i sell an original and that is always a big boost even though my prices are as astoundly cheap as the impressionists were when they were just starting out. but i make my cigarette and gas money just doing one or two pencil portraits a day.
Thank you, dear friend. Live long, and prosper.lokutus.