Weekend pleasures

[vaneramos]

I'm feeling unusually happy. Danny is here for the weekend. I took him to the monthly gay and lesbian dance at the old schoolhouse for the first time. It was a costume party for Hallowe'en. I don't have any gear, so he brought down some tacky lounge wear. He looked stunning in a green leisure suit, really. My shirt and pants clashed deliciously and I added my old cream-coloured fedora, which I haven't worn in years. Birgit asked me if I was Walt Whitman. Michelle said I looked like a rabbi on vacation in Lauderdale. I guess my beard is acquiring some personality.

Sylvie won the costume contest. She was Sappho. She wore a toga with an olive branch in her hair. That part was simple. But she had built and painted an elaborate "stone" pedestal out of cardboard. Fitting it around her waist, she looked like a sculpture bust. It was stunning. Her imagination never ceases to startle and inspire me.

Back home in bed around 2, tired, Danny and I just held each other, touching. I drifted on a haze of pleasure until we dozed off.

This morning, we woke gently, gradually rising to stratosfaction.

Today is the Guelph Studio Tour, which has lots to offer. Also, as far as I know, this weekend is the first Guelph International Film Festival, which looks promising. This is such an amazing little city. Martin and Daniel will drop by for a couple hours this afternoon. We'll take in a few artists together. Danny and I plan to see a couple films later on.

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[rsc.livejournal.com]

This morning, we woke gently, gradually rising to stratosfaction.


What a wonderful word!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I do like it. :)

[art-thirst.livejournal.com]

Guelph Studio Tour looked interesting. Maybe I can develop something like that in conjunction with MAeX for next year. Thanks. I didn't notice your name listed there even though you paint...

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

The Guelph Studio Tour is juried and somewhat exclusive.

A few years ago, a more inclusive group of artists started the Guelph Arts Festival on the same weekend, but it now runs several weeks earlier. I could probably get into it. All I need is enough framed work and a venue.

Frames, ugh!

[art-thirst.livejournal.com]

'Framed work' Ugh! I hate when some organization or gallery tells me my work has to be framed. Buying frames for individual works is damn expensive although I do have plexiglass and cut mats for some drawings. Photos are displayed under plexi too. No frame. My larger drawings are also unframed. Sculptures NOT on pedestals is how I usually display 3-dimensional works however, I've done mostly installations (which could comprise many different components but never framed or on a pedestal).

Re: Frames, ugh!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

I have a few drawings on display around my place under glass as you can buy it from IKEA for a few dollars apiece.

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

You boys go enjoy yourselves. I'll just sit here in the dark in house filled with paint fumes, don't you give a second thought to me. No really, go on.

sniff sniff sniff

[djjo.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, your making me weepy.... or is it the fumes talking?

big hugs to you Bill. I'm looking forward to seeing what you have created in the hallway upstairs! See you tomorrow night!

Danny

Re: sniff sniff sniff

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

I think you'll like it ... the colours are not precisely what I expected but actually better. I kept the Franking to a minimum, although there's room for more later if the whim takes us.

I must confess though the vapours really *are* making me ill at this point.

[leafshimmer.livejournal.com]

Sweetie, you forgot the line about chewing the wet cigarette butts in the dark in the house while inhaling paint fumes, oh and quietly starving to death because nobody cooked you any dinner...

squeak, squeak!

Shimmer

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

Oh sweetie dahling, this little snippet was mere flirting, not even foreplay in the orgy of guilt that is my life.

But I'll say no more - no need to burden you with an old woman's problems.

[grandiva1968.livejournal.com]

*HUGNESS*

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Back to you. :)

[leafshimmer.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I wanna see photos of you, Danny, and Sylvie in your costumes. Of course you left the camera home because you didn't want to be burdened with an expensive gizmo at the party...

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

I actually took it along, but left it with my coat and was to busy having fun to take it out. I wish I had taken Sylvie's pic, it was classic.