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Having a full-on adult life doesn't leave much time for creativity. Full time work, housework, going to the gym, one session a week of life drawing--even when I have the time, energy or interest may not be there.
If I offer or agree to do projects for anyone, it'll be because the subject, or the challenge involved, interests me. If I'm not interested and willing, it's not happening.
I enjoy my weekly sessions in the live drawing workshop, but I'm not working live over the internet. Being technically a bit backwards when it comes to Net stuff, I don't do Skype or have a webcam, and I don't work fast enough to do my particular quality of work, working around amateur models. (One thing I have to say I've been totally impressed with, in the live sessions, is just how hard it is for life models to do the things they do, even for quite brief periods. Nobody wants to underestimate this!)
At this point, I've agreed to do two challenges that have interested me. The results of one will be posted after this goes up. After that, I think it's fair to say that while I won't entirely rule out doing things for others, it's going to be rare, and there has to be something in the subject or the challenge of rendering it accurately, that interests me.
As has ever been the case, babies and pets are OUT.
If I offer or agree to do projects for anyone, it'll be because the subject, or the challenge involved, interests me. If I'm not interested and willing, it's not happening.
I enjoy my weekly sessions in the live drawing workshop, but I'm not working live over the internet. Being technically a bit backwards when it comes to Net stuff, I don't do Skype or have a webcam, and I don't work fast enough to do my particular quality of work, working around amateur models. (One thing I have to say I've been totally impressed with, in the live sessions, is just how hard it is for life models to do the things they do, even for quite brief periods. Nobody wants to underestimate this!)
At this point, I've agreed to do two challenges that have interested me. The results of one will be posted after this goes up. After that, I think it's fair to say that while I won't entirely rule out doing things for others, it's going to be rare, and there has to be something in the subject or the challenge of rendering it accurately, that interests me.
As has ever been the case, babies and pets are OUT.
Back with more pumpkins, 2017
A long, creative day, producing my now annual two pumpkins for a colleague's scout troop pumpkin raffle... This comes under the heading of do the weird stuff. Now I want to do a third, smaller, madder tiki pumpkin decorated with ostrich fern spikes!
2016 Pumpkin time again...
This year I'm carving two pumpkins for auction by a colleague's Cub Scout troop...and possibly a third which will go with them if I can get it done TODAY. If I can't, it may end up going to the office charity pumpkin auction.
One down, two to go!
Argh. Argh, Argh, Argh! Pumpkins!
Just checked my office e-mail, and after a couple of years' break from it, we're back doing the charity pumpkin-carving competition again. October 29th. God's nightgown. I'm effectively committed, having done several winning entries in the past, which tend to be good for $80-90 at auction...and I'd kind of like to tackle either my homely little Jotenheim Beast (with his mouth much wider open) or fall back to the bridge troll from SWatH) but oh, damn, layering this in on one art projects, my regular fall clean-up outdoors, and looking to get ahead on housework and DIY before Nanowrimo next month...damn, I don't know if it's feasible.
Pumpkin history...
This morning I loaded up my array of carved pumpkins. It's been 2-3 years since I did a major pumpkin for Halloween, and this year I'm thinking I might tackle the Jotunheim Beast. I'd have to use a supplementary pumpkin to supply its side-face flaps, and not sure about the head spikes, but anything with a huge mouth and fangs like that has to be a contender. Alternatively, I might try for the troll from SWatH. Both monsters have the relatively flat faces I need for this medium.
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