Today I was accepted into the LAST position in an art gallery showing! And my tattoo is healing beautifully.
I love my tattoo, waking up with it was weird, looking down at it and remembering that I have that on my skin forever still feels weird. But then it also feels nice, it's a beautiful way for me to honor me not self harming in 16 years. If you want to read more of that story, I'll be posting an essay about it on my substack.
My garden is going strong. The sprouts are really popping up strong again, which is great because I was very worried that some of them wouldn't survive the transplanting. Especially since some of them were a little fucked up the day after, but today they are really strong and bright green. It was so wonderful to see.
I managed to walk the dogs twice today which made me happy, even though I would really love to be able to take them out once every three hours but I'm doing the best I can. While also doing all the house renovation work, all the house care, all the errands, and trying to do things like be in an art gallery, get a tattoo in a charity event, hang out with my family, and do my artistic endeavors. It's a lot man. It's a LOT.
But I'm more than capable of doing it, in small portions with immense amounts of rest in between these bursts.
The rest of my night is going towards my rest and my creative things so that I can pour back into myself. Write a little, crochet a little, do some planning for what I want to do for this art gallery piece I need to make before May 1st. The theme is constellations and I have to use ONLY white, gold, and Prussian blue. I had no idea what I was going to do at first but I have Prussian blue gouache and gold watercolor glittery paint (and gold acrylic paint) and plenty of white paints and some colored pencils in those colors too. I'm thinking of doing a woman's face in different intensities of the blue and in her hair there will be the constellations in gold. Her features will be inked in the white paint and I think that would be perfect. Now, I just have to do a couple mock ups and try to practice with the gouache. I'm not that good with the medium but I don't have any of that specific blue in any other medium so here we go. I know I can do it, I will just go with the flow and make things work. I think her eyes will be closed and she'll have long hair that is outlined with the tiniest lines of white that I can achieve. I think that's a good plan.
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