Comments on: Life is Crazy http://julietchapman.com/blog/2010/05/25/life-is-crazy/ Musings on the Nature of Art from An Artist in Nature Tue, 04 Jun 2013 22:15:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Julie Chapman http://julietchapman.com/blog/2010/05/25/life-is-crazy/comment-page-1/#comment-16962 Julie Chapman Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:05:03 +0000 http://julietchapman.com/blog/2010/05/25/life-is-crazy/#comment-16962 Marti - ACHE is the right word. Deeply. Marti – ACHE is the right word. Deeply.

]]> By: Julie Chapman http://julietchapman.com/blog/2010/05/25/life-is-crazy/comment-page-1/#comment-16961 Julie Chapman Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:04:40 +0000 http://julietchapman.com/blog/2010/05/25/life-is-crazy/#comment-16961 Deborah - Oh my, your comment made me laugh!! shhh, you'll scare others away from the workshops ;-). I'll try to post more scratchboards soon. I'm surprised at how freakin' addicting it is to make them! Deborah – Oh my, your comment made me laugh!! shhh, you’ll scare others away from the workshops ;-) . I’ll try to post more scratchboards soon. I’m surprised at how freakin’ addicting it is to make them!

]]> By: Deborah Holzel http://julietchapman.com/blog/2010/05/25/life-is-crazy/comment-page-1/#comment-16911 Deborah Holzel Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:05:03 +0000 http://julietchapman.com/blog/2010/05/25/life-is-crazy/#comment-16911 Hi, Julie. I absolutely love your scratchboard work. It's striking. Pet portraits can often be a little bland, but these are anything but. I'd love for you to post more. It's been about two years now since I took your workshop. I think I've just about caught up on my sleep! Hi, Julie. I absolutely love your scratchboard work. It’s striking. Pet portraits can often be a little bland, but these are anything but. I’d love for you to post more.

It’s been about two years now since I took your workshop. I think I’ve just about caught up on my sleep!

]]> By: Marti Millington http://julietchapman.com/blog/2010/05/25/life-is-crazy/comment-page-1/#comment-16782 Marti Millington Fri, 28 May 2010 23:27:44 +0000 http://julietchapman.com/blog/2010/05/25/life-is-crazy/#comment-16782 Amen to your wish! I know all of us who took up full time work again ACHE to go back to the art full time - it will come - though not as quickly as we would all like, I'm sure. FYI - the YOUNGEST of my 3 sons is 38! which is why I said "adult CHILDREN"! Which helps to make me that very MAD Irish woman! I've warned them all, just recently - by September I will have run away from home - leaving no forwarding address! Amen to your wish! I know all of us who took up full time work again ACHE to go back to the art full time – it will come – though not as quickly as we would all like, I’m sure.

FYI – the YOUNGEST of my 3 sons is 38! which is why I said “adult CHILDREN”! Which helps to make me that very MAD Irish woman! I’ve warned them all, just recently – by September I will have run away from home – leaving no forwarding address!

]]> By: Julie Chapman http://julietchapman.com/blog/2010/05/25/life-is-crazy/comment-page-1/#comment-16748 Julie Chapman Fri, 28 May 2010 00:38:54 +0000 http://julietchapman.com/blog/2010/05/25/life-is-crazy/#comment-16748 Marti, I so feel your pain too. No kids to worry about (THANK heavens), just dogs, and my husband is working to pick up the rest of the slack...but with 20 acres of woods and a house, there's too much for one person to do. I'm chuckling at the "Very MAD Irish Woman" bit. I've been mad/sad off and on for a while. Making art, training my dogs, and the few minutes I get outside each day are all that's keeping my sanity in some ragged semblance of intact. My wish for the rest of this year is for ALL of us who love to create to experience more success sharing it with the world. Marti, I so feel your pain too. No kids to worry about (THANK heavens), just dogs, and my husband is working to pick up the rest of the slack…but with 20 acres of woods and a house, there’s too much for one person to do. I’m chuckling at the “Very MAD Irish Woman” bit. I’ve been mad/sad off and on for a while. Making art, training my dogs, and the few minutes I get outside each day are all that’s keeping my sanity in some ragged semblance of intact.

My wish for the rest of this year is for ALL of us who love to create to experience more success sharing it with the world.

]]> By: Angeline-Marie http://julietchapman.com/blog/2010/05/25/life-is-crazy/comment-page-1/#comment-16707 Angeline-Marie Wed, 26 May 2010 12:58:50 +0000 http://julietchapman.com/blog/2010/05/25/life-is-crazy/#comment-16707 Julie!!!! I have missed you, too!!! I also understand what you juggle! Marti, you, too, but I don't have children, LOL. I have a full time job and my fiance and my mother...and other family members. I, too, struggle with being able to create, enter shows and exhibits, blog, market, etc. Remember this: YOU are WONDERFUL and your art is AWESOME. You do MANY THINGS - don't beat yourself up if you choose to enjoy your porch instead of keep up with (fill in the blank). I, for one, am glad YOU and your husband are alright. That you have less art work just means it is that much more valuable. LOTS of great memories and affection, Angeline Julie!!!!
I have missed you, too!!! I also understand what you juggle! Marti, you, too, but I don’t have children, LOL.

I have a full time job and my fiance and my mother…and other family members. I, too, struggle with being able to create, enter shows and exhibits, blog, market, etc.

Remember this: YOU are WONDERFUL and your art is AWESOME. You do MANY THINGS – don’t beat yourself up if you choose to enjoy your porch instead of keep up with (fill in the blank).

I, for one, am glad YOU and your husband are alright. That you have less art work just means it is that much more valuable.

LOTS of great memories and affection,
Angeline

]]> By: Marti Millington http://julietchapman.com/blog/2010/05/25/life-is-crazy/comment-page-1/#comment-16683 Marti Millington Wed, 26 May 2010 03:03:25 +0000 http://julietchapman.com/blog/2010/05/25/life-is-crazy/#comment-16683 Julie! So glad to hear from you! Congrats on your recent honor - and I'm not surprised! And I feel your pain! Having gone back to work in January, my art and my attitude are suffering right along with you. I just finished my second piece in 5 months! These two paintings should have been done much, much sooner! But 8-4:30, 5 days/week with only weekends and evenings to paint and sometimes I am just too pooped to paint and grocery shopping and house cleaning and dealing with my adult CHILDREN (and I mean that literally!) is about to drive me to distraction. Thankfully, I do have my ART to escape into! Without it, my story could be told in a novel "Diary of a Very MAD Irish woman!" But, honestly - sometimes it helps to just blow off steam - we will all understand! PS...LOVE the scratchboard! Julie! So glad to hear from you! Congrats on your recent honor – and I’m not surprised! And I feel your pain! Having gone back to work in January, my art and my attitude are suffering right along with you. I just finished my second piece in 5 months! These two paintings should have been done much, much sooner! But 8-4:30, 5 days/week with only weekends and evenings to paint and sometimes I am just too pooped to paint and grocery shopping and house cleaning and dealing with my adult CHILDREN (and I mean that literally!) is about to drive me to distraction. Thankfully, I do have my ART to escape into! Without it, my story could be told in a novel “Diary of a Very MAD Irish woman!” But, honestly – sometimes it helps to just blow off steam – we will all understand! PS…LOVE the scratchboard!

]]> By: Julie Chapman http://julietchapman.com/blog/2010/05/25/life-is-crazy/comment-page-1/#comment-16682 Julie Chapman Wed, 26 May 2010 02:07:57 +0000 http://julietchapman.com/blog/2010/05/25/life-is-crazy/#comment-16682 Jim, thank you - and my most humble apologies to you, Marti, and anyone else who has missed me. I've missed the interaction with all of you! I also have not been my usual cheery, positive self about...well...life, the universe, and art. And I really didn't wish to flog everyone else with that, because that's not how I view myself, and *certainly* not how I want to interact with others. Some of it is that I'm just not getting to do art NEARLY as much as I want, and previous life experience has taught me that "all work and no art makes Julie crazy" (insert obligatory scene from 'The Shining' here). Jim, thank you – and my most humble apologies to you, Marti, and anyone else who has missed me. I’ve missed the interaction with all of you!

I also have not been my usual cheery, positive self about…well…life, the universe, and art. And I really didn’t wish to flog everyone else with that, because that’s not how I view myself, and *certainly* not how I want to interact with others.

Some of it is that I’m just not getting to do art NEARLY as much as I want, and previous life experience has taught me that “all work and no art makes Julie crazy” (insert obligatory scene from ‘The Shining’ here).

]]> By: Jim Bortz http://julietchapman.com/blog/2010/05/25/life-is-crazy/comment-page-1/#comment-16681 Jim Bortz Wed, 26 May 2010 01:55:54 +0000 http://julietchapman.com/blog/2010/05/25/life-is-crazy/#comment-16681 Jeez Julie... I'd about given up on you. Glad you're back and I hope you find time to blog more often. Marti isn't the only one that misses you. Jeez Julie… I’d about given up on you. Glad you’re back and I hope you find time to blog more often. Marti isn’t the only one that misses you.

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