Let’s play catch up shall we?
Wow, I got busy rather quickly and for a long time. Between dealing with a problem with my shoulder, which hampered my artwork, to being busy with commissions and deadlines; I found myself putting off updating this blog far longer than I should have.
Well first things first, my shoulder. The oddest thing started happening to me around four or so months ago, I’d sit down to draw and about a half hour into working (I used to draw for HOURS straight) my shoulder would lock up. I would get up and stretch it and my hand out, but it did little to help unlock it, and slowly it would lock my neck up as well; causing me a blinding migraine.
I figured a pinched nerve or perhaps a repetitive stress on my shoulder, so I took a break from drawing for a few days to see if resting my arm would help. It got worse. I could only draw for perhaps ten minutes a day, any longer and I was asking for a migraine. To any artists or people that love your job, I want you to imagine how heart breaking and frustrating this was. I dearly love drawing and creating artwork, and I was forced to only draw for ten minutes or be bedridden the next day with debilitating pain. This depressed me rather quickly so I went to my doctor telling her I needed this fixed and now.
Two months later of physical therapy and I’m slowly making a comeback at the drawing board, I can now get in a half hour of drawing a day without being sore the next morning. We don’t know what was causing this, all we can think is that I have very tight thick shoulder muscles and they basically decided they wanted to clamp down, but thanks to the therapy I’m back on the mend.
This brings me to another subject of the more artistic persuasion- the muse. I know everyone that has done anything creative has heard the muse whisper sweet suggestions and fill their heads with the possibility of what can be. Well unfortunately mine likes to take sudden vacations and never checks her voicemail. Such is the whimsy of the muse, but what I almost resent her for is when I’m laid up and not able to create as much as I’d like; that’s when she pounces on me. She grabs me by the head and starts a never ending stream of ideas, paintings materialize in front of me, and colors melt into one another forming the perfect backdrop for a galloping horse to be set on, clever inspirations gallop around me just out of reach. How utterly unfair. The one time I’m trying NOT to think about anything art related (lest I run to my drawing table and start working up a storm ergo effectively crippling myself), and that’s when ALL my new ideas pop into my head.
Hopefully my recovery will progress steadily and I’ll be able to start materializing these inspirations. Here’s a preview of one idea (very abstract because I’m in a mood to tease), I’m going through stacks and stacks of books and brainstorming on the classics in an effort to put together a cohesive series of paintings dealing with certain classic story characters. That’s all I’m saying because I don’t want to ruin the surprises I’ve got in store (or more I don’t want everyone waiting MONTHS for me to post a final painting hee hee).
Well that’s all for now, more updates should be trickling in soon.
