last day at The Village, sculpture in progress

[tarotbydiana]

My interview was postponed until Friday afternoon. The late arrival of beautiful spring weather set the store burgeoning with customers and made it unlikely that I would have been able to read for the manager and the owner as required. It was favorable that I called before Charlie and I made the forty-five minute drive because he needed to be at

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[ladyofthemoor]

What an appropriate card to get!

[tarotbydiana]

So true! I find the daily cards always have a certain parallel and usefulness, but some of them seem so very on target and clear. When I turned the card over and saw the Princess of Cups, I just smiled.

[tiffanyharvey]

I have experiences that to a lesser degree with drawing. You can easily look at a picture and draw a face, but to make it look like the actual person you are drawing, you have to nit-pick over the details. Tiny changes in the eyes and mouth make all the difference.

I usually find it much more enjoyable to do the face and not try to make it look like just like the person, but for a few drawings of my friends I did put in the extra effort. A lot of times people will ask me 'who is that' when they see a portrait I did, and I honestly say no one (because it was never meant to look like the original person).

[tarotbydiana]

Charlie has to bring in the photo board with all the pictures of me and he is first being judged on likeness. It's been taking him much longer than he thought to sculpt my head. He is experienced in working in water-based clay but they use oil-based at the atelier. Even though he works with it when sculpting the bodies, he didn't have practice with it working on heads or busts. I do admire how he jumped right in. The second issue is all the other busts he had made were done from life and he is required to sculpt from pictures and measurements at his job with the occasional presence of the model. He's trying to stick with that format here too and it's a new way of working for him.

I think people who are friends with artists know they will show up occasionally in some form in their work. When I read Tarot at the restaurant, I ended up in short stories written by the bartender, who I heard is getting published. Occasionally, I'll spot something in a painting Charlie is working on that looks suspiciously like me. Yep, that's my ear!