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It was beautiful! We saw the Cumberland River. We went to the Hatch Show Print! and took a walk down lower Broadway. What a great town – in case you didn’t know, there is music – everywhere! Oy! Enough with the music already! Music music music! Come on now…who doesn’t like music? Luckily, the only kind of music I didn’t hear there was POP music. It’s a great town for bluegrass though, and I do so like bluegrass.

Tinney Contemporary is by far the best gallery in town, hands down! I am one lucky little duck. Beautiful gallery space and amazing staff!

I have to admit I am really high right now. I’ve been high for a couple days. I was high when I got on the plane to get back, and I’m high today because I just had a bunch of dental work done on the left side on my mouth. The Novocaine part is starting to wear off and I’m starting to feel the tooth pain and I’m about to get really screamy, so I’ll make this here real quick like.

Here is a little blurb about the show in Nashville. It’s part of the highlights of their art crawl. And I put together a few pictures here. Don’t laugh at how fat I am. You’ll win a prize if you don’t think bad thoughts about me. My friend Kyla made that hat.

I was very very pleased with the show. So many people came. My little speech to the Vanderbilt alumni went pretty darn well, and so many people were very interested in my work and wanted to speak with me. I felt very important all evening and it was because everyone in Nashville is so incredibly nice!

Okay, time for another pain pill!

Reading what I wrote last month makes me feel like I actually got something accomplished. I have 5 pieces left to do and 2 of them are more than half way there. I’m going to show WIPS (that’s works in progress folks!) and a few things I’ve completed over the last month.

Most of my danvites are done. They are for VIPS, so sorry if you don’t get one. They take forever to sew and I’m trying to entice certain critics and curators to come to the show – so that’s who they’re for. I did finally design my postcard the other day and it’s being printed right now. And by the way, I’d like to give a bit of a shout out for a local printer I use that kicks Modern Postcard’s ass. They are called America’s Printer and they do a stellar job on heavier card stock, with UV coating (or not), for way cheaper, and all online. Use them! Their customer service is amazing too.

So I’m on the last 3 paintings and then I’ll be working on the last 2 pieces which are dolls. I’m going to be showing some of my handmade dolls. Did I already mention that? Well now I did. So we got yer paintings, yer drawings, yer handmade dolls, and the amazing Scribbles in a Sandstorm, the big Dan premiere… it’s going to be one helluva show ladies and gentlemen.

Well yesterday was busy. I’m a bit wiped out. I installed my drawing installation at the gallery for the On | Paper show that opens on Saturday at George Billis in Los Angeles (hope you can make it) and it took nearly all day. Every time I install this thing, it’s a bit different each time, and for some reason this time it took a lot longer than it has before. I cannot figure out why though. Maybe I’m just turning into molasses.

I have some brand new drawings in the show too, some that I made out in the desert, and a few that I’ve made a while back that I have never showed before. There was one piece that I was going to show, but I could not find it anywhere! I looked and looked, but I just could not find it – and I’m organized too, so organized. I don’t know what is going on. I know it’s in these chest of drawers right next to me, but they are just not there where I can see them. Maybe they are there, but my eyeballs refuse to indicate them. Maybe my brain will not register these series of drawings, or that particular book of artworks. It’s a whole series of little paintings on Thomas Bros. map pages and I had them all in one book together, and now? What on earth? I cannot locate them, so the one I was going to have in the show will not be there. Two of them will be there though… I think. If the gallery hangs them. They will at least be on hand. Those were already framed on the wall in my studio, so I was able to locate those, but not the rest of them. Where oh where can they be?

So, last minute, I had to come up with some alternative. I found one last stove print. It’s a drypoint that I made in 2007. I have already sold out the edition a long time ago. This was a test print. I decided to paint it pink with watercolor and pin it into a little frame. It turned out pretty cute. I hope someone will want it, especially because there isn’t another one like it. Oh, I’d show you a picture if I was smart enough to snap one, but I was in a giant hurry when I finished it. Poof! Off to the gallery I had to go. I framed it once I got there and I had to get right to work on the diary wall.