Feb 13 2018
Hello. I have not posted anything for ages. I have been a bit more active these past months, trying hard to get back to painting more regularly and eventually trying to figure out a way to promote my art. I have some more bad news as far as my health goes and will probably soon affect how much I paint for awhile. I have been diagnosed with endometrial cancer. It might even be a pretty nasty serous adenocarcinoma which I have no idea what that is and refuse to look it up as I was already told it is quite serious and I dont want to scare myself anymroe than I am already am. I figure it is not for certain anyway and right at the moment I seem Ok so I am just living in now and in the moment and right now I am ok. That is where it is at. I have surgery though on February 20th and they are doing a complete hysterectomy taking my not just my uterus but my ovaries and my cervix as well as a lot lymph nodes likley. So I am worried how bad the surgery will set me back activity wise I want to keep painting but I know I dont generally paint when i am in a lot of pain or really tired, so figure there will definintely be a perioud of recovery where I dont paint. I am not certain if we are allowed to post nudity but I painting this last night, totally digital on ArtRage...I call it Naked with my Cancer Team....it is a pretty good self portrait, and yes, I am rather fat...and it doesnt feel very good when you have to get naked before your doctors and they talk about you like you are not even really there or as if you are an object or worse, you are just a pile of fat cells and nothing more...or that perhaps you are the cancer...or the cancer is you. They dont mean to they try very hard to be compassionate I can tell but for them, this is an everyday routine thing...everyday they treat cancer...all kinds some easily treated and some dangerous...but it doesnt matter it is still and every day thing beacuse dangerous cancers hit people lots of people everyday and they come to places like UW Oncology deptartment in Seattle, WA to be treated with state-of-the -art treatments..I am getting robotic assisted surgery myself. They will fill my abdomen up with air and a robot hands will enter in very tiny incisions and do the work although my surgeon will guide it it is not totally robotic surgery..she is the genius behind it. And I can tell she is very competent she definitely anyway has an air of confidence which does make you feel better too. I hope anyway, this will all work out well and I will be painting for a few more years anyway. However right now I feel threatened and I guess, well it is life threatening and we just dont know yet...I will let you all know as soon as I know. In the mean time, for those of you who do pray I will accept prayers of any type for what the heck, they must all be positive if they are praying for my healing. Me I dont care too much what name you use for G-d and I dont think Gd cares really either...for that matter. I think for the most part we just make up names for a G-d none of us can understand or really even conceive of....a power much greater than any of us can fathom. Here is my painting. And if it is not legal to post nudity I apologize you can unpost it and I wont do it again...I just consider it art and not anything like pornography so anyway, it seems to speak of how I have been feeling after seeing my treatment team in Seattle last week.
Mar 08 2017
I finished my first totally digital painting I did with only my index finger to use as a brush and it was awkward but I was able to do this, and no I could not do too much detail but the end result I kind of like so I am keeping it making it available for prints, to be honest I might just have one printed for my own use, maybe put up in my home or make some cards possible to mail to others. I will be experimenting with fully digitalized art with different sized stylus' and seeing how I like computer although I highly doubt it will replace my actualy acrylic paints. It is however appealing for there is no set up and no clean up or putting away of paints, washing of brushes etc. And I want to get used to it as there is chance I will have to move into some care facility and might not be allowed to paint with real paint, and this will give me a way to continue my art if that does happen. Of course if I need move I will advocate for myself for the right to continue painting but sometimes we dont get what we hope for in life and at least if I lose the batter I will not lose the war..I will never stop painting unless I completely lose my vison and we are praying that does not happen (and trying to watch our sugars as we are diabetic and too much sugar over time has a way of destroying our retinas and blindness is the end result. I am not always winning the sugar war but I keep trying. Right now my A1C is way too high so I need to work a bit harder and find more resolve to not overeat and even more important, that I just be sure and keep to my regime, keep testing my blood sugar and eating at regular intervals and taking my damn insulin...sometimes I just dont. And that is plain stupid for an artist who wants to keep painting. So I am trying hard to rid myself of the depression too that causes me to become apathetic and not care and not test or take my insulin. Because really, I do care. I need to be more reliable about caring so that I dont lose in the end what little precious vision I have. (MY vision was decimated by a rare illness called PsuedoTumor Cerebri (google it if you care to know about it I am too tired to go into detail and I am finally free of symptoms of it so I am not wanting to think about it now...) I hope to finish a painting that already has a buyer if I would just get it done so hope to do that tomorrow maybe or this Sunday for sure. Saturday is Shabbat and I dont paint on Shabbat. I am not totally Frum but I try to be somewhat observant and it is good to take a day to rest, even if you are not Jewish and even if it is not Saturday....
Sep 03 2016
I am back--paid premium fees yesterday. In hospital --possibly for a month more. I cant post any pics--I am not on my computer but my Kindle Voyager e-reader which functions very limited with experimental browser. I am back painting again which is a miracle. I am happy to be back.
Jul 16 2007
My most recent painting, "Nigun" has been selected to be on the homepage of my other art site tomorrow. I am copying and pasting the letter I received from them today and it has the web address. I am really honored and excited.
A lot of the people on that site are not very impressed with folk art, so to be selected was a complete surprise.
Dear Adelle John
I would like to let you know that your artwork titled: Nigun has been chosen to be part of the Featured Artwork rotation on the homepages at World Wide Arts Resources and absolutearts.com. The feature will be on 2007-07-17. The duration of the feature is one day and the rotation changes every few minutes. Please stop by at http://wwar.com and http://www.absolutearts.com and take a look at your featured artwork.
Sincerely,
Markus Kruse, Ph.D. World Wide Arts Resources, Corp. / absolutearts.com 3678 Loudon Street Granville, Ohio 43023, USA tel: (740) 587-3326 http://wwar.com http://www.absolutearts.com
Jul 05 2007
I have been busy getting two 8 by 10 inch paintings ready for the First Annual Small Works--North American Exhibition and Competition. I also am doing 8 by 10 inch Acrylic on stretched canvas paintings for each and every Bar and Bat Mitzvah in our Synagogue. Fortunately, I go to a small Synagogue and the numbers aren't enormous, but it has kept me busy. There are just five left this summer. I also have a nice piece to go with my Shtetl collection. It isn't finished yet either....but I will get back to it as soon as I am able.
Now that I no longer live in an Adult Family Home I have more money for contests although this one is free. If you'd like to know more about it, email me and I'll send you the web address. The deadline to send in JPGs for the initial jury to select 300 for exhibition is August 31st, 2007