"'It Used to Be a Beach' (New Painting and Library Book Sale Finds!)" by Richard F. Yates

["It Used to Be a Beach" - Acrylic on canvas. 2020.]

So while I'm working on one thing (that OTHER painting I keep showing progress photos of), I'm also often working on side stuff. While my latest colors are drying on my main canvas, I finished THIS one. It's actually a bit darker than what the photo shows, but I don't have the proper editing software on my phone to match the pic's colors with the paint...so... Yeah. You get this slightly too bright image. (Sorry.)

Meanwhile, you should see what this thing looks like in a black light! (That's a good idea. Be right back!)

[Photo taken in the bathroom sink---because the edges of the painting were still a bit wet AND because the bathroom is the only place in the house that has a power outlet and no windows. It's kinda sunny here today! Weird... Oh, and the purple-blue glow all around the painting is the porcelain sink reacting to the blacklight. Looks cool, if you ask me. I should take MORE blacklight photos in the sink!!!]

In other news, Mariah and I hit the Longview Public Library's quarterly book sale, yesterday.

We usually hit the sale on Saturday for "whatever you can stuff in a bag for two bucks" day, but we're going to be out of town (at the Unpublished Writers Fest)---plus, the books are often rather picked over by day three of the sale.

Here's what we grabbed:

Mariah likes reading about royalty (both literal and Hollywood---folks like Spencer Tracy and Liz Taylor), so she picked the Diana books, as well as the mystery novel and the Albom. I found Time Bandits (which I used to have on VHS) and Gosford Park, the latter being a clever murder mystery starring Maggie Smith and a bunch of other people...but mostly Maggie Smith.

I ALSO grabbed a Mel Brooks / Carl Reiner CD in which Brooks pretends to be a man who has been alive for over 2,000 years. VERY funny stuff. My books are a couple of sci-fi tales and that silly How to Talk to Your Cat About Gun Safety, which I hope will be funny!

The whole pile came to a measly FIVE BUCKS! Half the price of a single paperback book bought off the shelf at a supermarket or bookstore. (Of course, if any of these items had been released with a SMART CONTRACT attached, then Mel Brooks, Maggie Smith, and Douglas Adams [or a reasonable representative in his case] would have gotten a cut of this sale... But perhaps that's a discussion for a different post.)

There you go. More painting done, hit the library with the missus, and now I'm off to make the bed and do some laundry. (No baby today, if you were wondering. Her dad had the day off!) Whatever---let's just keep on moving!!! Later, kids!!!

---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

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