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November 2009 
New Art- Watch Tower
Posted on Nov 9th, 2009
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BAD! Kitty
BAD! Kitty
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Close up view
‘Watch Tower'
20″ x 24″ x 1.5″
Oils
Gallery wrapped canvas, painted sides, ready to hang
Available for purchase at the BAD! Kitty Art Studio Web Site
Here is the quote that goes along with this work:
"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."
Anne LamottWatch Tower is a self challenge work for me. I've had this tower in my head for a long time, and I never really knew how to accomplish it...then I woke up one morning last week and knew that it was tower painting day. This work took over a week to create; as it is heavily glazed to create depth and drama. The colors sing and the tower glows, even on the dark side, the details of the building are visible, but they are in deep shade. I had some Ah-HA! moments with this work and I feel really great about sharing it with you all. I hope you enjoy it.
I also got all fired up and created three new calendars for 2010!
To see them all click here!
Or you can see them one at a time:
#1 http://www.redbubble.com/people/hmbt/calendars/4096665-1-bad-kittys-2010-calendar
#2 http://www.redbubble.com/people/hmbt/calendars/4096689-1-change-is-good-2010-calendar
#3 http://www.redbubble.com/people/hmbt/calendars/4097015-1-something-old-something-new-2010-calendar
Have a great day and thanks for being here today!
Heather
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Yesterday evening I was driving along the coast-side from Half Moon Bay heading to Pacifica to return the movie “Twilight” (Incidentally I think Ann Rice's vampire stories are much richer). It was a red sunset just like this and on the radio Jimi Hendrix's version of “all along the watchtower” was playing and it just ran right thorough me with significance, although just were it fit I didn't know at the time.
It is so hard sometimes to endure the solitude of the watchtower but yes the morning does arrive!
Beautiful Heather!
“There must be some way out of here,” said the joker to the thief,
“There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief.
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.”
“No reason to get excited,” the thief, he kindly spoke,
“There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate,
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.”
All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.
Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl,
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl”
OMG! That's too funny! I was listening to that exact song as I finished this work and that's why I named it Watch Tower! Too Cool my friend, too cool. Thanks for stopping by, I sure appreciate you.
Heather