Shouldn't be left alone to think
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004 11:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanI thought I'd start this with meme (I'm still less than convinced that this is the right word, but...):
Your aura shines Yellow!
What Color Is Your Aura?
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Once again I am taking a break from writing to do some writing (Yes, Baggy, I will do some painting or drawing at some point).
Apart from a passing joke with the girl on the till in Sainsbury's and a brief telephone converstaion with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wallabok today has been pretty much void of all human contact. I've quite enjoyed it, but I wouldn't want to do it too often. The old gregarious buds would whither and we can't have that. I've sent and received a couple of emails and now I'm waiting to hear from my ISP what the details of my webspace are. Apparently if I'd spent more time reading their FAQ (yawn) I'd have known what to do. But hey, that's what support email addresses are for.
Having said that I want to do some drawing and all, I am now wondering precisely what to draw. I have always liked to do portraits since faces fascinate me. I am absolutely dismal at remembering names, but faces rarely get forgotten. Unfortunately they get filed away under recognition rather than recall so I still need that face or a photo of it before me so that I can go for a likeness. And that's hard enough anyway. I mean drawing a face is easy. Making it look like the subject is a touch harder.
And I'm out of practice by a number of years.
I have framed on my wall (one of only three pictures I've ever done with which I was happy enough to splash out on a frame - Mum has the other two) a pen and ink portrait of Louise Brooks which I did way back on 12 December 1991. I was really angry when I did it (angry at myself - I'd been chewed out at work and deservedly so), and my best work always comes when I am sublimating negative emotions. When I am cherful, it's so much harder to achieve a result I'm happy with.
Of course the paradox here is that in my current mental state I should have been churning out masterpieces, but I think I let it go too far and got so negative I couldn't be bothered to do anything. Not a thing. Not even read a book properly.
I think I'm coming out of that now. And a bit of creativity is creeping back in.
Your aura shines Yellow!
What Color Is Your Aura?
brought to you by Quizilla
Once again I am taking a break from writing to do some writing (Yes, Baggy, I will do some painting or drawing at some point).
Apart from a passing joke with the girl on the till in Sainsbury's and a brief telephone converstaion with
wallabok today has been pretty much void of all human contact. I've quite enjoyed it, but I wouldn't want to do it too often. The old gregarious buds would whither and we can't have that. I've sent and received a couple of emails and now I'm waiting to hear from my ISP what the details of my webspace are. Apparently if I'd spent more time reading their FAQ (yawn) I'd have known what to do. But hey, that's what support email addresses are for.Having said that I want to do some drawing and all, I am now wondering precisely what to draw. I have always liked to do portraits since faces fascinate me. I am absolutely dismal at remembering names, but faces rarely get forgotten. Unfortunately they get filed away under recognition rather than recall so I still need that face or a photo of it before me so that I can go for a likeness. And that's hard enough anyway. I mean drawing a face is easy. Making it look like the subject is a touch harder.
And I'm out of practice by a number of years.
I have framed on my wall (one of only three pictures I've ever done with which I was happy enough to splash out on a frame - Mum has the other two) a pen and ink portrait of Louise Brooks which I did way back on 12 December 1991. I was really angry when I did it (angry at myself - I'd been chewed out at work and deservedly so), and my best work always comes when I am sublimating negative emotions. When I am cherful, it's so much harder to achieve a result I'm happy with.
Of course the paradox here is that in my current mental state I should have been churning out masterpieces, but I think I let it go too far and got so negative I couldn't be bothered to do anything. Not a thing. Not even read a book properly.
I think I'm coming out of that now. And a bit of creativity is creeping back in.