6 posts tagged “art”
Well, even though I've been dealing with a lot of crap, panic attacks, etc lately... at the moment, life is good. I'm painting, It's that perfect overcast outside, and I have the window open and am listening to the rain.
seem to be a bit more creative/useful today, but only with things I want to be useful with. had a migrane most of the day, but then had a flurry of activity. I printed out something which I'll modify and paint and use as border in the kitchen (which has an almost perfect letter sized paper board going around the top of the woodwork above the sink.). I also actually *installed* safari. Safari on windows is WHINY, so I don't think I'll be using it - which is good, I don't have to feel like I'm betraying firefox. however, Safari IS helping me organize/go thru my bookmarks, so that's good. something I've been meaning to do for a while, and this is the first time in.. ever that I've gotten so much bookmark organization done in a day. I also cleaned the top of the fridge of snacky hugeness and cleaned it (I would take a swipe at the windex and take a look.. wobha, it's white under that deep grey dust!), so that I could get to the way-too-high cabinets behind it. I say they're way too high because it would be a stretch for me normally - but there's a fridge in front of them and I can't move it anywhere else.. so I have to reach over or sideways to/from the fridge to get into them. But all is good - I put the snacky goodness in the cabinets and now get a little confused because there isn't a ton of stuff on the fridge when I go into the kitchen. In the awesome news - I found the vases from our wedding that we got at Mango arts in the cabinet.. they're now out and ready to be put up (I completely forgot about them!). I also found my battery operated TinyLights string of mini LEDs.. I have them strung on our torchiere. ^_^ I also got started on a big project in max - making my childhood home as it was, and as I wish it were. in 32. oog. but hey, once you get past the issue of scale, it's pretty fun.
oh, and I also painted the back of Eleri's pendant (decided it looked better that way) and it's all dry and ready to be sealed.. hoping tommorrow. no promises though, considering I keep saying that. ;P
So yes, fairly creative happy day today.. which is nice. I feel more like myself than I have in years.
well, the yay first..
while I was sleeping, my brain was apparently working on an oceanic childrens book. so that's yay. I have three pages pencilled in, and the concept for the fourth and another page floating around. Probably going to be shooting for about 15 pages.
the ugh now.
THE DAMN TOILET IS BLOCKED UP.
And it overflowed on me when I flushed it. And plunging it isn't fracking helping.. which means the septic is probably being a bastard again.
I am going to kill whoever came up with the plumbing in this place. kill kill kill.
Lookie what Anyare made meeee!
Just a quick post before I have to go get my parafin off the stove.
Things are going very well with the Mysterium committee. This Makes Me Happy.
Also, the Gallery never called me back about some space, so monday I have to go looking for a part time job :-\ Gary said I only have to have something that gives two or three short shifts a week, so that's good. Worried about my carpal though. I'm thinking about talking to perkins.. also thinking about albertsons, and maybe marie callendar's. I don't know how to waitress, but the extreme angle they have their hands cocked at when they bring out trays worries me, so waitressing may be Right Out. We'll see though. If I can get waitressing at a place like perkins that caters to an older group, I may be able to get pretty decent tips, too. Older people seem to love me for some reason. I think it's because I'm polite, and it's not just because I have to be. Anyway, I don't have to worry about it until monday, so I'm not going to.
Still hoping that the Gallery will call me back. They got a new store, so I'm hoping to get more than a 1 month display if this works well.
Wish me luck!
Off to go work on the mini batik piece. will post pictures later.
So, I'm noticing a bit of a trend here. It's been gnawing on my mind for about a week.
I really seem to piss people off without trying.
I don't know how, but it's starting to get to me. I do not like conflict. It seems to have started with my sister, spread to my husband, and now random artists on DA are starting to get uppity to me. I am really not trying to attract this, I swear!
I think I know where it started with the husband. He snores. He snores and it is fucking annoying. He snores when I'm trying to work. He snores when I'm trying to sleep. I've been noticing it for a few months now. and he's not doing anything about it. Granted, it's not like he can see a doctor about it - we're fairly poor, and can't afford health insurance. But that doesn't make it any less annoying when I'm trying to concentrate on.. say.. a blog post (yes, he's snoring now). So that has led to constant frustration, which has led to sniping.. which is really very sad. we've never fought before. This single flake has started a miniature avalanche of resentment. Now I find myself angry at him for one thing or another almost constantly.. which isn't healthy for me, him, OR the relationship.
The sister was an entirely different story. I was talking to her one day, and asked if she was taking Greek this semester. You see, she is almost always miserable when doing her Greek homework, so I was hoping she didn't have to take it again this semester. She replied that she was, but it was the last semester. I replied that at least she was almost done with the evil thing. Which she decided to take and run with.. Telling me I obviously thought that those who learned for the sake of learning, and learning itself, was evil. Let me point one thing out: Learning is my life. I would be dead if it weren't for the fact that I learn for the sake of learning. She's known me for four years, she should know this. And then she goes and slings the most unimaginable insult at me? I was so angry I could hardly talk. then she accuses me of blowing up at her. that was probably about two weeks ago. We just started talking today. She still hasn't taken it back, though... Which is going to have to happen if I'm going to talk to her again.
The artists.. I don't know what the hell is going on there. Joumana got pissy at me for sending her a link to a neat webcam. She said, in that cold tone she manages, that I should not send her any links "like that", especially by notes. As if I send her things all the time! I've only ever sent her three or four things by notes, and that was over the course of the last year. one of them was offering to help her pay for the cost to restore her bloody hard drive! So that was entirely unprovoked. I've also noticed (from reading some comments on her journals etc) that she's getting incredibly pissy at everyone else, too. Geesh, I know you've been told to back up your HD before, but if you're enough of a fucking idiot to not do backups when you're a working artist, then wow. If you don't want to hear it any more, don't start bitching at people about it in your comment. Just delete the damn comment! You're a subscriber, you can see your comments in your message center. That's what it's for.
This is sad though, because I really admire Joumana as an artist. She does really incredible cultural reference work, She's constantly pressing the boundaries of what she knows/does, and she's just an all around really great artist. it's terrible to see someone you admire so much turn on the people who support her. I was honestly tempted to write her about it.. She doesn't seem like the sort who LIKES to be pissy.. but after seeing all the comments and such.. I just don't know. I also thought about unwatching her, but she does such wonderful work, and I'm addicted to her comic. Then again, I suppose I could unwatch her and just make a bookmark. *sigh*
There was another artist who was being pissy at me today, but I can't remember who.. hmm.. I guess that's a good sign. Oh, yeah. it was more someone just not understanding why I do something though, so that's fine. (a friend of mine was trying to get me to delete everything on my watch list and cull my friends list on DA.. I kept trying to explain that even though I have a backlog, I still watch these people and at least look at their art because they're good artists that I want to support, and am genuinely interested in their art.
So, to those artists who (will undoubtedly never read this post) are incredibly Froody, and generally don't lose their temper at the public, and who produce great art, and who support lesser artists than themselves (like me!), THANK YOU. This means you Hibbary and Ursula!
entertainingly, the husband has stopped snoring. ;)
time for bed!
