thinking and mowing the lawn

Hi All:
Well you can do alot of thinking while you mow the lawn. Even though I have a small back yard, that only takes about 45 min to cut, it is still time where it is only me and my lawn. I think during that time, as really cutting the lawn is not really brain stimulating and my busy mind likes to wander. I recently put in a bunch more plants into the garden as I decided that this fertile volcanic land stimulates almost all growth especially vines. I had to ruthlessly yank those vines and put them into situations where they could grow but somewhat controlled. I moved plants, put in plants, nurished plants, tied up nasty roses and bougonvilla with their nasty thorns and picked out ends of thorns out of my hands for a week. And because I also have obsessive compulsive tendancies due to the ADD, I had to do it all as soon as possible and everything else was almost forgotten. Frankly, I have done it all, goal accomplished, and as you can figure out, I am not a plant person. I am an animal person, specifically dogs and an avid reader so I like to have a good relationship with my sony e-reader. I am only doing this for the love of my mate, who at this point seems to have remained as my one constant, god bless his patience with me. I know that when he finally comes home, he will also move and nurish and cut plants to his hearts content. So for now, we can say that I have a collection of plants not a true garden. The plants are waiting to be made into a garden so the gardener can come home to healthy plants and do his art in the garden. End of rant.
I don't know if you noticed or not, so I will point it out. I was a good little artist and updated my art on the blog for more new paintings (about10) and then I was really feeling productive and thought that some of you might like to read a few thoughts that I had about each and every painting that I have ever done on the blog. Please understand that when my obsessive compulsiveness take over, it really takes over. Just thought provoking. Okay, I also had time to think and fix...... I finally finished the flower painting to where it is up to my expectations and now I can proudly say that I can paint flowers, that's just keeping up with the (art) Jones's if you will. I always felt less of an artist when other artists can paint flowers and I never did...... I will load that probably today and I just finished another spidermonkey painting, so I will have to take pictures of that and put it on the blog too. Did I say that I was ocd (obessive compulsive) and that sometimes it really takes over. This is why I am such a productive painter/artist. When I latch on to something, it gets done to the neglect of everything else. I was in ART mode, okay!!!
Sorry about the divergence from the original train of thought. So to summarize what I thought about while mowing the lawn...... it was alot of organization of paintings, what those paintings meant to me and the messages that I wanted to convey. I have also layed out 4 other paintings on canvases and they are good to go. In fact, there is one on the easel right now in pinks and blues with a deer from Ecuador. Let's see what my mind will bring up this time. I usually have to let the painting "tell" me what it wants and usually the results are better than if I could plan them. I can only lay out the main basic single line drawing or animal and after that, it is all free hand with a brush. I lay out the drawing from my overhead projector and this is why. I am truely and honestly dyslexic and this means that I have been know to reverse and invert things. This might mean that for example: a hand will be upside down or whatever and I will have to go back to correct it after completing it. So drawing first and checking for errors before it hits the canvas is far better than drawing completely on the canvas and trying to erase canvas that does not erase well and makes for confussing lines to figure out. Note for other Dyslexic survivors, use technology to your best advantage.
This last painting is of a spidermonkey that was in the zoo. He was regal and had huge presence. So in justice of him, I put him on a very loud and colorful background of Ali Baba style, sitting on a royal blue silk cushion with gold tastels. The amazing thing is that for all the loudness of it and huge presence it is on a long and very narrow quite small canvas. Sometimes larger doesn't mean larger. I tried to capture his energy even more with the beautiful design and color to push home who he really is when you see him I think that my no so subtle message will get the point easily across. I think I painted that background about 4 times to get it right and I started off with reds, greens, yelows, blues and ended up with oranges, reds, and purples. I let the painting take over as it seems that my mind or intension was not in line with the essence of the painting. So that is the kind of thing that rattles though my ADD/Dyslexic brain while mowing the lawn. I was lucky that with that much thought away from the weedeater that I didn't accidently cut off my plants or toes. So .... there you go. To view the paintings you can go to the blog and visit my complete profile and go to my paintings , it will open them up for you there are about 31 painting plus or minus.
Be patient with others, just because people don't have all your attention doesn't mean they aren't present.
Robin