Today was one of those days that make an artist feel, well, like a professional. Of course, we are professionals, but we generally don't claim to be until we get paid for our work or when we have challenges to get it done.
My day started with RAIN. I wasn't expecting it. Of course, I didn't watch the weather channel, so I really didn't know what to expect. Anyhow, it was raining early in the morning. I wanted to make an early start of getting my art together for an Art Show this weekend, but really didn't feel like waking my 2 yr old, dressing her, feeding her, etc. I wasn't feeling the energy. I decided to wait until she awoke and the rain stopped.
I did go to my studio, behind the house, to retrieve the paintings that I needed to have framed, today. Coming back into the house I spyed a truck in front of my home. It looked like a moving-slash-mail truck. I decided to check outside my door to see if they left anything. They did! It was the canvas print that I bought for a "bargain" online. "It's here already?" Unfortunately, the shape of the box wasn't the flat 16x20 rectangle box that I expected. Instead, it was tall and narrow, as if it had something tubular shaped in it. I opened it up- and was disappointed. Now, the picture itself was beautiful; but, I was expecting a "stretched" canvas- not a printed piece of canvas, along with four wooden bars, that I am supposed to put together myself. From now on, I decided, I will be aware of the "bargains." Needless to say, I placed the order again, from a different canvas printing company, checking twice that they would stretch the canvas. Why? Because, the print is to go to a special client. There's no way I'm about to try stretching a printed canvas, myself, risking having a bulky, loose canvas print to present to my client. No way!
After a brief (well, long!) nap, I awoke to a clear sky. Great! I gathered my paintings and my 2 yr. old and begin driving toward the store to get my paintings framed. Unfortunately, by the time I arrived to the store, it was pouring down RAIN! I had nothing to cover my work with, let alone try to carry it AND my baby into the store in the rain. I sat there in the car at the store's parking lot, just looking...
I finally made the decision to drive back home, stopping for lunch (at a drive-thru) along the way. I had to wait until evening to go back and try it again. Fortunately, the rain had stopped, my husband kept the baby, and I didn't have to wait in line to get my paintings framed!
So, I'm expecting a correctly stretched canvas in the mail, soon; and I have my paintings beautifully framed for the upcoming
Mobile Street Renaissance Art Show. Yay!
Maybe it wasn't such a bad day, after all.
