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  • I'm afraid this will be my last post.Please let me explain.I've realized several things about myself over this last weekend, one of which is my ability to hurt with words. I know that this site has provided me with a "sa…
  • "And now I will show you the most excellent way.If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all myste…
  • No Lady with Roses today . . . but here's a color sketch I did this afternoon. You can probably hardly tell what it is . . . but it's a fountain just outside the Fine Arts Building. The green thing sticking straight up …
  • Okay, I am being thoroughly inspired by this homework reading this morning, so I thought I might just share some of it:"[Here] appears the chasmal difference between the author and the reader, which Goethe says can never…
  • I think the librarian is a little worried about me. She gave me kind of a funny look after scanning my newest stack of research books. I could almost hear her thinking, This girl has an unhealthy obsession with romance .…
  • Um . . . for some of you who maybe don't know me as well in regards to the last post . . . .I was being totally sarcastic!Just so you know, I do not consider myself the modeling type by any stretch of the imagination! I …
  • So how would you react if I told you that today I got hired as a swimsuit model?Hmmm?Okay, well I didn't get hired as a swimsuit model. I did however get a modeling job, and I was requested to wear a swimsuit.Yes, I am i…
  • All right, back by popular demand . . . the latest update of my painting! I actually haven't done that much on it today . . . worked some on the littlest rose and started working a bit with the smaller figures. Still, ev…
  • You are all going to be so tired of this painting by the time I'm done with it! I promise, tomorrow, I won't post a picture of it. I promise!But I am having fun!And it's a jolly good thing I am, too. Because today I sp…
  • I worked on the rose a little this afternoon! It's starting to look downright floral, isn't it? Still has a long ways to go, of course, but it's getting there! This picture gives everything kind of an orange glow, thoug…
  • See? I'm making good progress! She looks human already, except for her hand, which looks diseased. In this picture you can see the squalor in which I work. It's hard for an artist to maintain any sense of neatness, much…
  • I decided to take today as a sort-of-but-not-quite-sick day. As in, I don't feel sick, I just have some sick symptoms that make me not want to move very much . . . so I'm not moving very much.But I am painting . . . . He…
  • I just behaved rather foolishly. I went puddle-sloshing in new shoes. And I am now soaked to the knees. But after all, as that immortal bard, Athelbald P. LeSnoot, so gloriously sang as he was about to be led to the g…

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