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…