Slinging Paint

I've been neglecting this blog again. It seems that when we bloggers have interesting things happening we're usually too busy to write about them and when we do have time to write there is usually very little going on worth writing about.

These days most of my interesting goings on are taking place in the professional sphere. I could write about them but somehow it doesn't quite feel right. These men come to me for discretion. I don't think they'd appreciate ending up as blog fodder.

And then there's the big reason I haven't been writing. As the title of this post suggests, I've been busy painting. Risky as the weather is usually isn't very art friendly this time of year but we're having a nice string of clear skies and warm temperatures and I know better than not to work when inspiration strikes.

The canvas I'm working on is very large and this is the most technically challenging painting I've started to date. So far it's gone fairly well so I'm happy with it, but it's leaving me little time to write especially as writing and painting at the same time can be difficult.

Some of you may not know this, but images and spacial relations are processed in a very different part of the brain from language and going back and forth between them is a bit like running down a long hallway from one end of a house to the other. It takes awhile and doing it too much can get tiring very quickly.

I'm also discovering that sometimes it can be hard to shift from a painting headspace to a kinky headspace. Interesting, as I'm always thinking kinky but when the phone rang the other day it took me several long moments to switch gears enough to remember who I was talking to and what we were talking about. That is very odd for me.

I suppose it's because like painting, kinkiness is a creative activity, at least for me. When I'm channeling creative energy one place it's hard to redirect it someplace else.

So for now I'll stick with the paint. I'll try to let my loyal readers know I'm still alive once in awhile, though.

Ms. Betty