Apparently I'm not the only one who's noticed that coffee roasts and type weights have the same taxonomy.... This bracelet is the best, though:
Now I can confuse even more people who don't know what Lorem Ipsum or greeked text is!
What I'm working on, 2: shadows
Which sounds like I'm being a bitch, I suppose, so let me explain: There's always one person in a class or workshop who is utterly convinced that if they only used the right tubes of paint, then they, too, would be Sorolla or Rembrandt.... They will spend the entire time looking at the instructor's palette, or asking what colors they're using to get an effect, and not ask anything else.
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Finally had a chance to paint today, as opposed to all the Not Painting/Not Drawing/Not Writing I've been doing lately.
Had lunch with an old friend today, and as I was explaining that I hadn't done much painting lately (read: none), I thought, 'Okay, this is lame. I'm being lame. I need to just get something on canvas.' It is amazing how just one look of mild reproach from a friend can be the spur I need. Thanks, E.
This is an underpainting I just did, from a sketch I did a couple of weeks ago. Once it dries, I'll start laying down color on top of it. I wish titanium white dried faster, though --even in this heat, it still takes somewhere short of eternity to dry. Hopefully by tomorrow night, I can start glazing.
My study of Caravaggio's Sick Bacchus stares balefully at me from the wall it's leaning against. Sigh. Maybe I'll work on that while this is drying. Or maybe I'll varnish dried paintings.
Or find some new way to procrastinate, like doing work for the day job. There's certainly plenty of that...
work is complicated
One of my projects is something insanely complicated that I need to come up with a visual solution for.... If I were to show all segments of this project's 55 workflows at once, I'd have something like this.
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Ostensibly because I'm their friend; because I'm the friend of one of their friends; because I did them a favor once, and now I should apparently always do things for free; or because it's for their particular pet cause....But it was when the writer said, 'Well, I'm having this design contest for all the interested artists, where they draw the couple, and then send me the drawing, and whichever one I like best, I'll pick for the comic,' that I excused myself and said goodbye, and wished the writer luck.
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