Win some - Lose some!

But it's all for a good reason too! No I did not get juried in to the latest gallery. Apparently they do have two other photographers and in regards to the pillows, they already have someone who is doing fabric art! And that's okay with me too, as I wasn't really crazy about making more pillows with my photography on them. It's alot of work too.

However, yesterday I sat down and started painting from a photo that my Granddaughter photoshopped of herself. I needed to get the painting out of my system. It is actually almost finished - I still have to finish with the highlites in her hair. I guess there's no crime in how 'fast' one completes a painting. But my husband's words are always brewing in the back of my mind, "...I wonder what you could do if you slowed down!?" One of these days maybe I will.

Next week I plan on putting myself on a schedule of spending at least half a day in the darkroom perfecting fiber based gelatin silver prints! (This term is interchangeable with silver gelatin.) By the way, for new photographers, if you've wondered what process that was, it's actually a fancy way to call black and white prints made in the darkroom. Then you have 'giclee' prints that are high resolution scanned photos (film and digital) that are printed with archival quality inks (8 - 12 color inkjet printers).

That's the lesson for the day!