Seascape Artist

This summer has been full of changes, good and not so good – I bought a house, I lost my job, I need to decorate the house on a non-existant budget while looking for another job and I need to keep my spirits flying high.

Being an artist who generally keeps her personal art projects at the bottom of her priority list … behind any day job priorities … behind family priorities [today is the season's first football game for my grandson], I keep looking at one master bathroom wall and thinking … that wall would look awesome with a beach scene … palm trees … blue water … maybe a sailboat … the bathroom has a separate shower with a garden tub … IF I were to use the bathtub [I am a dedicated shower person who insisted I would NOT buy a house unless it had a separate shower] … I would want something nice to look at … I am thinking that my oil paints just may come in handy … I need to get some odorless paint thinner for cleaning brushes but that can be found pretty inexpensively at local Wally World’s.

I was thinking a lovely sunset beach scene might be nice for one wall of the master bedroom too … the afternoon and sunset sunshine floods into the master bedroom … so painting a sunset seascape in there makes perfect sense to me.

My daughter remarked that when we go to sell this house … she is going to have to have it completely re-painted in neutral colors to make it marketable … we will see when the times comes huh? But isn’t that why people buy houses … so they can personalize their living spaces into somewhere they feel comfy and happy? If I cannot go live at the beach … I can bring the seascape flavor to me where I do live.

With all the economic hardship, fear and high prices in America today … decorating your home to be a retreat from the worries of the world outside those doors and windows seems like good financial sense to me … a bit of paint, sweat and pride of self-accomplishment can go a long way to keeping a person feeling self-assured and self-confident during a really tough recession period.

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