This week the birth of our nation's first president is getting in the way of my older daughter's education. She's been spending her leisure time hanging around the studio and messing with the paint. We use the same palette. She churns out a picture every fifteen minutes and quickly ran through all the old canvases that were laying around. This morning she asked to work on my painting of Fatty fish. Its for her, so what the hell. Also, I'm not happy with it. It isn't right and I keep hacking at it - glopping paint on, scraping it off, glopping more on. I wish cadmium yellow deep were cheeper.
The most awkward part of our working relationship is that she's started to notice the words to the songs that iTunes plays - and today iTunes seemed determined to push it - it played LCD Soundsystem's "Drunk Girls", Tom Lehrer's "Smut," and "Lobotomy Eyes" by the Mexican Blackbirds (she started singing that one - I'm gonna hear about this when kindergarten is back in session).
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