Moving

We will be moving to our new house next Friday. We have been packing up for several weeks. Our current home is a quite full of boxes and stuff! It made me a little sad to pack up my art supplies, since it means I won't be able to use them for a little while (whether or not I would have used them any way.) I tried to take the opportunity to thin them out though. I have such a hard time getting rid of art supplies- I always have so many ideas of something I want to do "sometime". I toughed up and gave away my oil and acrylic paints, as well as several random arts and crafts items.

I hope that by reducing the variety of creative implements I have, I will increase my use of them. I really would like to get some gouache paints again, and I figured it would be easier to justify buying them if I didn't have a bunch of other unused paints sitting around. After I gave those paints away though, I realized I have several canvases that I started painting but remain unfinished (see my almost first ever blog post). I will have to figure out if I should keep those too or not- only a couple are in close to finished condition. I will have to think about it for a little bit- I could maybe do some mixed media work over them if I felt like it, but most of my remaining supplies need to go on paper.

I went through a period last year where I was feeling like I should do more work on canvas. I was thinking how great it would be to not worry about framing for every piece. I thought I could use our garage for a studio, but it ended up not working very well at all. I have since come to terms with the fact that without my own large studio dedicated to painting, I am unlikely to get very far with canvas at this time. Also, I am very much more familiar with paper, as I have been working on it for so much longer, and paper can be a very beautiful thing.

I will now be putting my Etsy shops in vacation mode until a few days after our move is complete. I look forward to getting my stock listed in them again.. after we get our network set up again so I can actually access the internet from my own computer (I haven't been able to for several months). Well, I probably won't be posting here again, until after the move, but all this packing is making me and my puppies very tired :)