A list is coming. First, please enjoy this drawing of a Wilsonia cabin:
Turned out pretty well, especially considering it was another one of those cabins with cedar trees blocking much of its detail.
Here is the sort of thing that runs through my head while I draw.
1. Yea! This is #________. I’m on schedule/running behind/might be getting ahead. (A continual evaluation of my progress)
2. Why are there ALWAYS cedar trees blocking the views?
3. Persistent thoughts on a loop – one day last week I ruminated about whether it is better to have work at a gallery that doesn’t sell very well but pays reliably OR work at a gallery that sells but won’t pay. The answer kept returning to me that the lesser selling gallery was infinitely better. Do you know how awful it is to try to collect from someone for 3 years, someone who sneers at you and says, “Patience is a virtue, you know!” I hope you never have to know that firsthand.
4. I wonder if I am enough on schedule or possibly ahead of schedule in drawing for The Cabins of Wilsonia to take a day off to paint.
5. It would be nice to paint instead of making yet another trip to the sneering, virtue-spouting, non-paying vendor.
6. Maybe she’ll have a check for me this time.
7. I can always visit a yarn store afterward. Wool fumes are soothing. Alpaca is soothing. Lots of color and nice people are soothing. Soothing is good.
8. Now what number am I on in my drawing progress?
9. Hmmm, I think I have an idea for a blog post. I wonder if it belongs on my “real” blog (this one) or my new blog (the Cabins of Wilsonia)?
10. This is hard. Maybe I should just go to Chicago for a few days. . .
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Hey, MN isn’t far from Chicago. 🙂 You could always stop by and check out some MN trees too. Although they are nowhere near as tall as your CA trees.
Sorry about the client who isn’t paying you. That stinks. Tell them that “integrity is a virtue too” 🙂 Drat. May their budget be easier shortly…
Have a lovely week.
Jennifer Dougan
http://www.jenniferdougan.com
I personally pick pictures with trees in them more than anything else (I think next is trees and moon). I thought this drawing was a little more interesting with all the trees snugged up to it when I first saw it, and was surprised to see your “negative” comment about the trees. Isn’t there some rule of proportions or something that says it shouldn’t be 100% all the same object?
Becky, I haven’t heard that rule of proportions, but it does make sense. My trouble with the trees is that they block the views of the cabins that I am trying to draw. If I can’t see it, I can’t draw it. Or, I can’t draw it very well or very accurately!
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