Art and ow and can't stop moving...

[ellenmillion]

Feeling a bit low about my artwork these days. Worked feverishly on a piece for portrait adoption, liked it, Jake rightly pointed out that she looked all out of balance, so I erased huge swaths of it, tried to draw in about seventeen different figures for the decent face, failed miserably, wrote a poem about the failure, went back in and turned it into a mermaid drawing, which I still mostly like (and mermaids are a great excuse for frilly, frivolous fins and whirly hair and ignoring things like gravity and hips), but it's still not RIGHT, and I know I haven't got the color skills to pull off the lighting I put in.

Sketched another piece for PA that turned out like subgrade kindergarten work.

And, as my art time totaled about two hours for all of last week, that's what I got.

I couldn't give my originals away on eBay. Sheeeeesh...

Must shake art funk! And I did get a portrait adopted this weekend, with a mousepad add-on, no less. :)

Tonight, I go soak in the tubs at the pool for a while to ease my bruises and all those poor over-worked muscles (no back spasms, thank heavens!), then I've got some t-shirts and mousepads and prints to make, then I go home, do dishes, and try to sleep in the muggy, smoky heat. No work on the house tonight... Jake's calling contractors about scheduling sheetrock installation *crosses fingers* and I can't move without limping. We pushed hard this weekend, and we'll be back at it again tomorrow.

I have Jennie's plane tickets, yay!

Okay, time to go. Woo.

Comments

[gealflings.livejournal.com]

According to Eliza, the ebay maven, and lots of folks at WetCanvas, ebay is hard on artists right now because they rearranged the way things are listing, and, unless you drop $20 to get a feature-plus listing, chances are people won't even SEE your art unless they're searching for specifics, so don't let THAT get you down.

In other news - *hugs* <~~ Just because ;)

I did a very 'ellen-inspired' painting recently, so I *MUST* think you rock! hehehe

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

That's somewhat reassuring! I noticed that hits on it were WAY down, though I did the same amount of advertising I've done on other auctions.

I must see this painting! Pleeeeeze?

*hugs back*

[gealflings.livejournal.com]

Absolutely! Always happy to plug.. ;)

http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/art/t/r/trumpp/merchick.jpg.html