No sordid tales this time. Just me, drinking coffee and updating. Run for your lives!!! Run while you still can!! I had a ton of ideas yesterday for the blog, and I thought to myself, "self you don't need to write the ideas down, it's just one day...you'll remember." I don't remember. ((sigh)) I think it's because I've over scheduled my time, which usually leads me to procrastinating. I'm really good at that! I figured I would update you on the arting and the day to day of me.
We'll start with the arting, because I want to. I have taken on a pretty big task of working on a digital and traditional piece...at the same time. I have my program open and up on the digital project and if I look slightly to my right there is an actual traditional piece started. I've been doodling, but this is an actual piece...one I will have to get the scanner and Windows 10 to get along to scan in. That, I have a feeling, will be another sordid tale for the blog. I haven't actually done anything besides doodles and sketches in over a year. I can say I'm very excited working traditionally. I felt the urge to do something other than sketching, even though I do have a digital piece started. My to do list today is very long, (that's what SHE said!) but it's my quasi-Monday...today is busy. I have to prep the pieces that I have for the stores. Re-size, name, figure out what is going where. When we are out and about and I say I'm an artist, I get a must be nice response a lot. It is VERY nice...but I think what a lot of people don't see is the work that is not arting. The "seedy underbelly" of arting, which is not doing art at all, it's doing all the other things. I'm getting a lot better at the whole balancing part of it...but the majority of the time, the other stuff has more hours logged in than the actually creating. I've come to peace with the fact and actually enjoy some of it...like blogging. I really enjoy driving you guys' crazy and giving you eye strain...okay I feel a bit bad about the eye strain part...all in a days' work. All in all, I'm very excited about both pieces I'm working on. I think I'll be adding traditional into my regular schedule. I know I've said this in previous blogs...but I really have missed traditional. I will probably being selling the original, and not putting them up on the stores. An exclusive one of a kind, thing. We'll see.
Personal life, has been just as hectic. The epic adventures of the grocery trip...this time was actually not bad, the weather was actually nice, although I wanted to go postal in Costco, so really nothing new. I've been on the hunt for the reading materials. I really really tried getting through my book on the Crusades...I couldn't. The author was so boring. I was reading the same paragraph over and over, not retaining anything, but falling into a very solid sleep. I put it aside...I am now reading "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath. Very interesting, so far. Her story in and of itself is tragic. That this was her only novel and you can kind of see the parallel between her life and the book, the book was like a scream for help. In those days, there wasn't any. I'm not sure what's next, but I'm hoping to devour this book in a few days. Don't Starve is GRRR...I almost made it through a year...almost...then what I call "volcano season" happened...right at the end of it, too. There was fire, hounds, mosquitoes and me...yeah, I didn't stand a chance. I'm still loving it. Having the urge to play Guild Wars 2, but not quite ready for that kind of commitment. Soon. Dubbing over my husband's anime shows are fun. Constant source of entertainment for me. Probably not for him. I am not sure which ones are which. I can't watch because it makes me dizzy, I get motion sick (or Simulator Sickness) very easily. It doesn't stop me from looking over and watching bits and pieces and making up my own dialogue...I keep saying mine is better, which I'm sure is not the case, I can't hear them because my hubby rocks his headset so I can rock on whatever I'm doing. Usually driving him crazy...er...than he already is. He cannot be sane and be married to me.
On that note my minions, I hope you all are having a fabulous week! Until next blog!