Hey everyone… Hope your enjoying a great week…. lately i have noticed… just as you all probably have, that the news coming out is bleak and horrible… as one who sees the glass half full I decided to take a lighter look at the art world today… so many times we get stuck in deep and impending doom that we really forget to laugh… I think I have read somewhere that a daily belly laugh is the ultimate in a healthy lifestyle… I can’t agree more… for me laughter is a core necessity for my creative lifestyle. Nothing can get me “unstuck” like a great laugh. Seriously at the end of the day is all the stress and negative feelings really worth it?… nope not even close…. so enjoy a great laugh this week… if your struggling for a good one I have included some dumb and funny jokes to get you on your way…. Have a great week everyone… talk to you soon ………peace ……………….james You just might be an artist if….
- You were more concerned about the color of your car than the fuel consumption.
- The highlights in your hair are from your palette and not Clairol.
- You are having lunch with some friends and the fragrance you wear is eau d’linseed oil.
- The only piece of new furniture you have in your home is a $2000 easel.
- You butter your toast with your fingers, just to feel its texture.
- You are over 50 and still have no health insurance.
- You know what shade of green the lichen on the trees is.
- You can’t find any clothes for your date because everything has paint smears on.
- Your date ends up with paint smears on her/him.
- You’re late for the date because you suddenly knew exactly what that detail of your latest painting needed and just had to fix it while it was fresh in your mind.
- When viewing a sunset, you think in terms of cadmium yellow (light hue), salmon and gold, a tinted teal mixed with gold for the water….”
- There are Prussian blue fingerprints on your phone.
- You clean your brushes in your coffee.
- You have watercolor swatches on cardboard in your pocket.
- You do judge a book by its cover.
- You draw your letters instead of write them.
- You like to get plastered and paint the town red.
- You know that art does not match your sofa.
- If dust bunnies are part of your mixed media.
- You buy expensive brushes, and have nothing to do your hair with.
- You get a feeling of calmness from holding and stroking the bristles of your clean paintbrushes.
- You know the difference between beige, ecru, cream, off-white, and eggshell.
- You know more than 28 colors.
My personal top 10…. #10 Why was the artist afraid he might go to jail? Because he’d been framed!
#9 Which barnyard animal is a famous painter? Vincent van Goat! (or Pablo Pigcaso!)
#8 What did the artist say when he finally finished his Bas carving? What a relief!
#7 What did the artist say to the dentist? Matisse hurt!
#6 What did the artist draw before he went to bed? The curtains!
#5 How many modern artists does it take to change a light bulb? Four. One to throw bulbs against the wall, one to pile hundreds of them in a heap and spray-paint it orange, one to glue light bulbs to a cocker spaniel, and one to put a bulb in the socket and fill the room with light while all the critics and buyers are watching the fellow smashing the bulbs against the wall, the fellow with the spray-gun, and the cocker spaniel.
#4 How do Japanese artists bid farewell? Cyan-nara!
#3 What do you get if you cross a painter with a boxer? Muhammad Dali!
#2 Haiku about getting out of bed: no no no no no, no no no no no no no, no no no no no.
#1 Why did the artist cross the road? To see the other side