If you have a piece of marble ready to work on in the basement, and you have your tools, then go to the basement and start working on the sculpture.... If you have tubes of acrylic paint in your taboret, and there is good light, and you have a canvas stretched on your easel, then paint.... So be careful not to misinterpret your exhaustion as an indicator of your talent or lack of it, or of an innate disposition toward this or that medium, or as a mystical sign.
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It's been a busy few weeks at the Art Cave.
Moving preparations, which I'd been putting off, now need to be tackled At Once, as I now have a little over a month to winnow, cull, and pack up all my worldly possessions. This makes me want to take to my bed with the vapors. Tackling it even a little bit at a time is overwhelming. Where are my cabaña boys to handle this all?
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Work is busy, I suppose, in the sense that there is a lot to do, with no immediate deadline for most of the projects -- just a distant thought about how it really should all get done soonish. So Saltmine U. continues much as it has been.
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I have a new painting to do, which I'm quite excited about, but want to keep the subject secret until it's finished.
More class work from the man with two silver earrings than I want to think about is in the queue.
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Comic-con looms.
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And all this, combined with summer heat, is giving me a severe case of lassitude, and lack of appetite -- sure signs of stress. Some people, when stressed, devour everything that isn't nailed down. I, however, end up picking at food when I get preoccupied, and have to be reminded to eat. Stress exacerbates this. The only thing that sounds appealing at the moment is faffing about, drinking gin & tonic.
Well.
That's not the only thing.
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swoon
You know, any day you get an email from your favorite author, it's an awesome day. It's an even more awesome day when the email gives you his blessing to paint one of his poems, because he likes your art. And if he signs it, 'love'?... I'll be on the fainting couch if you need me.
Read Moresketchbook dump
From the quicksketch class a week-and-a-half ago; marker, 5 minutes each. I've discovered that five minutes seems to be about the shortest period of time I can successfully manage a drawing in. All the sketches done in three-, two-, and one-minute intervals just do not look nearly as good. Also, I need more practice getting the markers to look smooth and not scratchy.
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