Rant.

Two things that suck:

TTA (or "Triangle Transit Authority"). Bus 23 minutes late. Not unusual. Come on, guys. When you're that late, why bother having a schedule? Jesus Frickin' Christ. And nice of you to charge $2 for the pleasure of waiting in 95 degree weather for your chronically late buses. Nice job. Keep up the good work.

Bank of America. Big, honking megaloconglomorate of a bank can't even get its sh*t together to have a database big enough for all of its customers; apparently accounts opened in California are on a different database and thus said Bank tends to treat its CA-account-owning customers in a ridiculous fashion, as if both arms of the same bank can't communicate with one another. If you call yourself Bank of AMERICA, my guess is that you should configure yourselves to serve residents of the WHOLE ENTIRE COUNTRY in the same way, not to mention since people in AMERICA tend to move frequently and hence might have the need to easily and without 18 kinds of idiocy access their own accounts, which they opened in California, which last time I checked is still part of AMERICA.

Ridiculous.

Rant over. Good night.

Kah Lee FAAHHWWN Ya.

Just back from California... there's my excuse for the lack of posts this past week. I plan to post some photos and such, but right now I'm needing some recovery time - and some sleep. In the meantime, here's a sneak peek at the latest member of the Feissel family:

Woof.

JH encore.

Here's another little sketch I did last summer of fellow painter Janette Hayhoe:

By Diane Feissel, oil on panel, 6"x6"

Delay.

Ahem. Okay, I've been a bit busy this past week - painting and preparing for a trip Back West. To California, that is.

In the meantime, I have another Art Recommendation, for a show here in Raleigh. We have a new artist - Julie Niskanen, recently relocated to Raleigh, NC from South Dakota - working out of the studios at 311 West Martin. She's a printmaker, and she'll be showing work at M Street Gallery down at 311 in August; come to the opening reception the evening of Friday, August 1st from 6-9pm down at 311 West Martin Street in downtown Raleigh.

Here's one of her pieces, from her website:

Artist: Julie Niskanen

Title: Entangled in the Moment

Medium: Etching, mezzotint, aquatint, spit-bite

Dimensions: 8" x 6"

Nature.

Hey. Here's yet another entry in the "unfinished series" series. Yep. I began a couple of paintings on wood, retaining the grain and natural color of the wood by using clear gesso to prepare the surface. Et voila:

as in nature...(1) oil on wood Diane Feissel

Productivity.

I have discovered an unfortunate equation:

Diane + humidity + heat = significantly reduced productivity.

Uggggggggghhhhhhh.

Birthday.

Just found out that I share a birthday with Mel Brooks, Gilda Radner and John Cusack. Now that's a good group.