The Question

Jan 28, 2008, Today was a great day when it began. I received a very funny email I shared with others so they could laugh too. I got an email from my friend Penny. It is always good to hear from her. She is now working as an aide at school so she has the same schedule as the rest of her family. How cool is that? I blog hopped through my every growing list of blogs. I found inspiration from Kyra's blog http://colormekyra.blogspot.com/ where she asked this question:

"Do you ever wonder if you pick Art ... or if it picked you?" Then she said exactly how I feel about art nowdays.... "It is literally something I have to do." Amen!

I emailed the very talented Kyra to ask her permission if I could to use those words here on my blog. She emailed me back almost immediately. WOW! Kyra kindly gave me her permission to post those words. Thanks, Kyra. Today I am astounded by all the kindness I have received from fellow bloggers. I have "met" some really nice people. I am very thankful for that.

If Kyra should look at my blog, although I don't know when she would find the time, I won't feel as I did when I made my abstract for my first postcard swap. I guess I have gained some confidence in myself and my artwork. I won't worry that she would think I am weird. Now I know I am just expressing myself. In fact, I can't stop! It doesn't really matter if some likes my art or not, but I hope they do like it. I am encouraged by my friends' responses to the ones they like. Even the one they don't care for. I've only had one negative comment from a friend, but he is entitled to his own opinion. I still value his opinion as well as his friendship. I just can't look at the piece without remembering what he thought it looked like.

I am so loving this blogging thing today!

My day got progressively worse as it wore on, I felt loaded down with one thing after another, not finishing one before another was thrown at me. Two copiers went down on the same day. What are the odds of that happening again? I don't think I want to know! I couldn't fix them. I could probably get a job with IKON, but that is not my ideal dream occupation. My dream job would be being a successful working, paid artist. I am already a starving artist. The desire to be a full time artist makes my real job frustrating at times such as today. A computer kept freezing up on me. What was it with machinery? I finally got everything in the system by 5 pm. I went to the bank to make the deposit with what I was able to complete. I knew I would have to finish the rest of the paperwork tomorrow. I was pretty tired. Felt a khalua and cream calling me... I still had two bills to pay, but did no shopping so you know I was tired! I saw my friend Jim and apologized to him for not returning his phone call.

We had fish sticks & fries for supper which were good despite the two brown substances that looked fried chicken livers in the package. I will write a letter to Mrs. Paul. I have not checked on the internet. Of course I arrange 13 fish sticks down one side of my pan, 13 down the other & 3 in the middle. Creative cooking? My friend Penny would just say it is my meticulousness.

After supper, I think I finished my green swirly trees (which are in the background of the1st pic) and added some red birds which was a first for me; outside my comfort zone. I may still add a sun with a face to it. Then I created another piece inspired by Silvia's drawings and the blouse (see previous post). I took a photo of the later. It reminds me of invitation paper you would find in a card shop, particulary one of those where you can have invitations printed. I was proud of myself for creating something in about two hours. If you look on the right had side, you can see a face or at least I do. It wasn't intentional.

theRAV