#136 - Creatively speaking

It's funny being on a vacation and waiting for the storms to begin.

So we are visiting family and friends in SoCal this week.  Arrived up the coast to our wonderful niece who was the most amazing hostess where we were escorted into our very own airbnb!  Had a fabulous visit to our favorite GOAT chowder restaurant (and brought some frozen with us down here), followed by a quick thrifting escapade before leaving to head down closer to the big boy's city.  I brought along my watercolors, which I haven't really been using much at all lately. Our lovely hostess here (timeshare corner top floor 2 br. unit with our own Rob and Laura Petrie beds, as well as a large rec room with pool table, 2 hot tubs and a large pool) has some amazing watercolor pencils, so it's been fun to mix it up with my palette of potted watercolors and her pencils.  Mostly drawing the ocean and working on perfecting the palm trees right outside the balcony.

As it's currently FEBRULLAGE, I did my daily collages in advance so I could post daily while we're gone.  I'm picking up more followers and having daily regularly viewed posts close to 50 people at a time, so my reach as an artist is growing.  But the most amazing thing happened yesterday.  One of the collage artists who I follow, as I love the vintage vibe of her work, posted a collage and I recognized a photo of the Vault Goddesses sister, Muriel.  It was from a Time magazine editorial in 1961.  She's wearing a ballet tutu and her husband at the time responded to a cruel letter to the editor written in response to her appearance on The Ernie Kovacs Show.   What a sign to see her in that collage!

There have been massive storm warnings, but down here as well as at home, but waking up this morning you wouldn't know it.  Beautiful sunny day with threatening clouds to the north (LA to Santa Barbara is supposed to get the brunt of this storm), but no rain, which we expected.  I guess later today into and through Tuesday, when we leave, is what is expected,

Since I brought along my portable typewriter (aka my Macbook Air), I'm starting to dive back into my film script.  Truly, I need to make lots of progress.

But the thing is to keep moving, and creatively as well.