{"id":5309,"date":"2020-11-01T10:42:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T15:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/?p=5309"},"modified":"2020-11-01T11:04:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T16:04:29","slug":"and-now-its-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/and-now-its-november\/","title":{"rendered":"and now it’s November"},"content":{"rendered":"

Still haven\u2019t been much of anywhere\u2014oh, a visit to the dentist and to get a flu shot, and one day \u201cdown the shore\u201d, and one afternoon to Chanticleer, another to Lancaster to buy pumpkins\u2014which the squirrels have eaten right off my porch\u2026 and one more evening to my friends deck, bringing my own wine to sit spaced out. That\u2019s 6 events for September and October\u2026 we are probably more cautious than many but we\u2018re both susceptible to infections\u2026 We do live in an area where the vast majority of people wear masks and it\u2019s easy to get food delivered etc., so, that\u2019s good.<\/p>\n

And I voted, by mail\u2014very relieved when I got back the email acknowledging its receipt. Crazy Times!!!<\/p>\n

So, what have I been doing? Still not painting but have been working on a series of 12 drawings\/watercolors of images from Scotland.<\/p>\n

\nHere are 4 of the 12 images.
\n\"Drawing \"Drawing
\n\"Drawing \"Drawing<\/p>\n

\nI also worked on several books.
\nOne, an accordion book with rusty dye as a base for sketching in my garden.
\n\"Accordion<\/p>\n

\nand another influenced by this whole lockdown, mask wearing, distancing, covid life.
\nEach page flips up to reveal the inside of dealing with 2020!
\n\"Image \"Image
\nWhen things get crazy, I make books\u2026<\/p>\n

And since my exhibition was canceled\u2014at least it hasn\u2019t happened, I decided to create an online ecommerce shop\u2014of works on paper, not the images from the defunct exhibition. First it took a while to photograph images, improve my filing system and organize things in general. Then, there was new software to learn and to learn how to customize the site as I want. That part if pretty much finished. Now to hook up the financial\/tax\/shipping bit, but\u2026 in the middle of all this we had to have a soil stack replaced\u2014the joys of an old house\u2014but it means there are holes in the ceiling of my studio and in a wall in a powder room, paneling ripped out on the stair landing and total mess of one bathroom\u2014and workmen (wearing masks) in and out\u2026 almost finished so now to get back to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Still haven\u2019t been much of anywhere\u2014oh, a visit to the dentist and to get a flu shot, and one day \u201cdown the shore\u201d, and one afternoon to Chanticleer, another to Lancaster to buy pumpkins\u2014which the squirrels have eaten right off my porch\u2026 and one more evening to my friends deck, bringing my own wine to… Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[271,342],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painting","category-sketchbooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5309"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5343,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309\/revisions\/5343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}