Okay we got through Christmas with some joy and grace so that was good.
Now I’m on vacation exhausted from stress withdrawal. How much day-to-day energy comes from stress? It would explain a lot of things if stress were an energy source, like amphetamines or revenge. I bet it is. That’s why people can’t sit quietly for a bit without coming up with a power-point presentation and project plan to screw up the lives of everyone around them.
I’m drawing as much as I can, client-free vacation drawing woohoo! Question, Is wanting to draw all the time a clinical obsession? I looked up the definition of ‘obsession’, and yes, yes it is. But put the word 'clinical' or 'medical' in front of ‘obsession’ and it gets dark fast: "Jail would be great, I could draw all the time and the other inmates would like it and totally not ass-shank me!" is a thought I repress quickly, clenching.
When prisons offered free inmate labor to the government it really wrecked a lot of dreams for me. Oh, alright I won’t go to jail, I don’t know what crime I’d commit anyway. A really apologetic bank robbery, or something.
On the airplane a sweaty, 13 yr old, possibly autistic stranger pressed awkwardly to my right side and my daughter pressed to my left, asleep and drooling. United Airlines seats are made for anorexics, jockeys, quadriplegics and Peter Dinklage. Still, I broke out a bottle of white ink (aint I a hero?) and was using a paintbrush to apply it when the stewardess yelled at me which is what I totally deserved. here’s the doodle, five hours worth:
My initial concept was just a series of fluer-de-lis and filagrees to make a cool pattern but I immediately realized I was drawing wallpaper so set the flowers on fire and am much happier with it. The burning flowers got me thinking about fireflies, which became a thing, further down.
My dinner at Auntie's house drawing is here:
Every rooster is a distant shadow of Ken Taylor Avec brothers rooster. The man is a genius, I don't want to look up how he lives because I wish I could be him and I'm afraid I'm going to find out he's living in terrible poverty. Why would I look that up?
My cousin had a kid, I decided she needs art lessons immediately for fear of growing up a productive member of society
Woops just got called away to an emergency board game. More later!