Another Mood!

Some time back I was in a completely awful mood. When I get like that I have a tendency to paint...let us say...weirdly. At the time I had a canvas board that I had attempted to paint a ship on and absolutely could not do it! I believe, it was just not meant to be. So, I didn't have any Gesso to primer over the ship and didn't want to use so much of my white paint, so I took my little canister of drywall putty (or whatever you call it, I can't remember--Oh, yeah, spackle!) and slathered it onto my canvas board making sure to leave plenty of texture.
I love swirls, I've discovered as I've been painting, and all I wanted to see was a dark background with these swirls of color. I thought as I painted about how there is always something beautiful (in this case the colors) when darkness is surrounding you. It was a rare philosophical moment in my life. (Like I said, I was in a mood! ha!) Then later, I decided to give a counter balance to this one and make another one with the darkness being amidst all the light. Sort of a some days you're in a good mood, some days you're not kind of thing. And, yes, I guess you can compare that to the whole Eastern philosophy of the yin/yang thing, but I don't go in for that. I like my version better.
Anywho, I'm sort of in the same type of mood today as I was when I painted that first dark picture. So I thought it was a great time to bring them both out into the vast openness that is the internet and share them with anyone who happens across them. Enjoy!~

Jane Austen Quiz

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Jane Austen Fan!

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I love Jane Austen, as I have stated earlier. I found a blog of a woman who took this quiz and I thought I would add it here on mine. I am Elizabeth Bennett, the heroine of the very first Jane Austen book I ever read, 'Pride and Prejudice'! I can see it. (I'm having a problem with getting the thing on here. I'll try it again and hopefully I'll get it.)
FYI-I first got interested in Jane Austen while watching 'You've Got Mail'. Pride and Prejudice was Kathlene Kelly's (Meg Ryan's character) favorite book because she gets "caught up in the language." This picture, of course, depicts the book 'Emma', which was the second book of hers I read. I have both of these and all of the others (my sweetie went out and bought them for me!) except for 'Sense and Sensibility', but I did see the BBC miniseries and the movie with Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet. (Wonderful movie!) At some time, when I get a little cash to spend on it, I still want to get the book and read it, if I can make the time.
I think everyone who likes to read good books without bad language to mess everything up and wants to get lost in another era should take the time and read Jane Austen's books!

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