Paint Party Friday - old painting collaboration

Hello at Paint Party Friday!

In lieu of the images I really wanted to post (seem to have dissappeared) I am posting this old collaboration I begun with a friend around Sept 2010. This was one in 13 pieces or so we were going to develop for a joint show at Eyedrum gallery in Atlanta (back when Eyedrum had a home), but the whole thing fell apart with us mainly because at around that time the chain of events leading me to relocate to North Carolina begun taking effect, and I believe around that time she was changing jobs or moving or both (she moved 6 times that year!! and switched jobs at least twice).

I find when I talk to people that 2010 was a particularly weird, or critical year, or notable in some way. How was the year 2010 for you? I would love to hear anyone's stories on stuff that happened or ended for y'all in 2010, especially from September onwards.

This piece was very much unfinished. She had laid out most of it (IE the text, the pinks, etc), but the kids at lower left (they were glued on from a magazine), the house at upper right, and the horse in the middle were in a state of incompletion. I finished those, added some doodles here and there (such as the leg bones) and the squiggly brown stuff which was actually wood putty! It looked cool but kept flaking off.

What was great about working with Colleen was the great heart and spirit she infused into all the pieces. She always laid the groundwork with a sweeping gesture or theme, allowing me to do what I do best - fiddling with minutiae. I always loved that Allah quote though to this day I don't know where it came from....

Posting these because I happened to find these photos instead! Here's another from that series that didn't happen.

For all and any who followed either my missing painting or my Wordpress snafu stories, I wanted to state, all things ended up OK!

I got my painting back, after hunting down the old restaurant's manager by looking up his URL (though the website was now down) with Whois - this tells you the domain registrar. Found an updated email and phone number that way, heard back a few days later, and we met at a local grocery store where he delivered the goods.

I received an apologetic response from Wordpress after my very admonishing email stating the auto spam filter had been triggered. They seem to indicate that I would be OK still using Wordpress and that 'it would never happen again'. I am happy re. the response though now am just wary re. their aggressive antispam controls. At least I have a backup site now!

OH! Almost forgot - as a special treat - more art from a possibly underappreciated member of the animal kingdom... enjoy! WARNING - do not view video if you have a phobia/serious aversion to worms or other lower life forms!!!

Have a great weekend all!