Daily Art
ACEO Sunny Still Life is my example for my ACEO Magazine, and I did it the day before the deadline. Go me. Even with the loss of a lot of hours on Thursday to being sick, I did it in time. Whew!
It's a great magazine. I even got my photos of my Top Loader today and sent everything off to the editor, all's well.
I sometimes get a little stressed over too many commitments and things I signed up for. NibbleFest is coming up and the theme is "My Secret Garden," which I was going to skip until a good idea that included a story idea jumped up and hit me last night. It might be too grim for my usual art crowd or it might really move them, but I'm going to try it in about 500 words and post the story free in the listing if I do the art. Or just hang onto it and send it somewhere, whatever. That's not till the 20th. Then by the end of the month I need to do one or more artworks of food to go in the "Art on a Plate" Cookbook contest, actually good artwork of food, when I don't cook! But, I can use kkitten42's recipes and so come off not only as if I cook, but am actually good at it because she really is spectacular in the kitchen.
Plus still have a pastel commission hanging that I should do so that my docket is entirely clear again. It would be nice to reach a point where nothing needs planning, but that's unlikely. I think it's just that I get involved in things. Most of these things are not so important I couldn't beg off and just not do it if I don't have time or don't feel up to it or get involved in novelwriting instead. I need to keep that perspective.
Theme Week is going to be fun next month though because it's "Reflections" and that egret oil painting will be done by then.
Maybe I'm just tired now from having gotten up and hauled my album into the living room to set it up nice for the photos then stood around and knelt photographing it till I got it right. They did come out well but that activity was immensely more exhausting than drawing fruit in colored pencils. Besides which, I get stressed by approaching deadlines and next time I'm going to try to do my examples while writing. And maybe not try to do a salable ACEO with the examples -- it was just so tempting though, because of what I was demonstrating.