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Discarded Underpants

09 Wednesday Sep 2015

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bathroom, panties, sip and paint studio, underpants, underwear

I almost forgot to tell you! In keeping with the strange and wonderful things that happen in our studio bathroom, I give you this: On Thursday night, someone threw their underpants away in our bathroom trashcan. They were just floatin’ around on top of a bunch of paper towels with the trash lid up so all the world could revel in their discarded glory. Because why wouldn’t you throw your underwear away in such a manner? I felt so bad for them, I wrote them a haiku:

undies cast aside

without hope or love or thought

towels now as friends

And then another haiku:

undies showing off

pink hearts amidst the towels

landfill, here they come

And then one more:

undies in our trash

someone’s going commando

I need some bourbon

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Kid n’ Play

11 Tuesday Aug 2015

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In class last night, I told everyone to grab the brush that looked like I’d been gnawing on it. One of the customers said, “You mean the one that looks like Kid n’ Play?”

YES.

YES.

 

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Smartassedness

13 Monday Apr 2015

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I love people who don’t hold my smartassedness against me. For example, tonight I told the class to dip their paintbrushes into the pile of blue. One of them asked, “Which blue?” I know I shouldn’t have, but I couldn’t stop myself from saying, “The one that isn’t purple.” And instead of getting pissy, she laughed. I took that to mean that she is awesome.

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Pet Portraits

21 Saturday Mar 2015

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art, artist, Artistic Abandon, paint, painter, painting, pet portraits, pets, portraits, sip and paint studio

I think this is my 4th post today. Geez. Someone tell me to shut the hell up already! Or don’t. Maybe wait until after I finish this one, then tell me to shut my bourbonhole.

Tonight at Artistic Abandon, we were doing our quarterly pet portraits class. Normally, I dread the class, because it’s a shit ton of work for me prior to class (tracking down everyone’s photos, getting them sized and color corrected and printed, sketching them onto the canvases, etc), and it’s kind of organized chaos during class, especially at the end of class when everyone needs us to fix what they’ve done and make them look like they have eyes instead of black, soulless, pits of despair. Tonight was no different, though it was a nice, low maintenance group at least. But at the end, when most of the painters had gone, I started working on one woman’s painting putting the finishing touches on it to make it actually look like her particular pup. I heard sniffling behind me, but kind of ignored it and kept painting and bringing out the dog’s personality. When the sniffling didn’t stop, I turned around and saw that she was crying. Apparently, the doggy had passed away about a month ago. So I gave her a hug and started asking questions about the dog, and making little changes to the painting as she talked about it that weren’t really visible in the low quality photo we were working from. The other girl that was still finishing up her painting said that her first pet portrait with us a few months ago had been of her kitty that had died, and that she and her husband both cried when she brought it home. She’s done several paintings with us in memory of pets that have passed on since then, and it’s really cathartic to pay tribute in this way.

Sometimes in the clamor of people demanding more and more of me in exchange for less and less, I forget that what we do at the studio can be a real gift. Whether it’s just a fun night out to ease some tension and get a break so a mom doesn’t throttle her kids, or giving someone a loving way to honor a furry family member, we get to help people tap into something they don’t normally get to tap into (sometimes they just tap into a beer, but still, there’s creativity involved). And tonight we did that. The woman we were helping showed me the honor of letting me see a vulnerable side that I’m sure most of the public doesn’t get to see, and I got to validate that and let her know it’s not only okay, but right and good because it comes from a place of love. Tonight, I feel very lucky to do what I do.

Please remind me of that tomorrow when I start bitching again.

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Bathroom Antics ‘R’ Us

06 Friday Feb 2015

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antics, art, artist, backflow, bathroom, reduced pressure zone, restroom, sip and paint studio

You guys would not believe the shit that goes down in the bathroom at my art studio. It’s a coed bathroom without a stall. Bitchez be drinkin’ and bitchez be actin’ all craycray. Here is a breakdown of what has happened so far over the last 3 years:

Of course, we discover revolting things all the time in there: people missing the toilet and having diarrhea all over the wall, same scenario with vomit, and countless clogged toilets, which led to us having to put up a sign:

Toilet sign

There’s the usual misuse of toilet paper that you find in many public restrooms:

Bathroom 12-13-13

Bathroom 3-20-13_compressed Bathroom 5-3-13_compressed Bathroom 8-16-13 Bathroom 9-13-14

Then there are the things that make you really scratch your head, like the couple that disappeared into the restroom together twice, but not quite long enough for hanky panky. And then there were the two girls who went into the restroom together, took a crap, and came out without flushing. Again, there is no stall in there. Then there was the time we found white powder and a tiny memory card beside the toilet. Or the time someone poured what we can only hope was water into the rock garden on the toilet tank. Or the time I came in to discover what appeared to be remnants of a rat having chewed through the toilet paper still on the roll:

I didn't have time to snap a photo of the actual thing, but here's a drawing of it for your viewing pleasure.

I didn’t have time to snap a photo of the actual thing, but here’s a drawing of it for your viewing pleasure.

And my favorite: the time someone rearranged the caddy in the bathroom:

We went from this, which hides the air freshener and the plunger...

We went from this, which hides the air freshener and the plunger…

...to this, which hides nothing.

…to this, which hides nothing.

Plus, the city made us install this reduced pressure zone backflow thingy, which bubbles up every time we wash brushes or hands or anything else:

Bathroom 12-15-14

It was a hideous monstrosity, so I decorated it like this:

Bathroom 8-6-14

‘Cause that’s how we roll.

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