I know, it's been nearly a month since my last post and I don't have any pictures for this post either, unless you want sketchbook pics but they're just not that exciting.
Anyway during the nearly a month absence from posting I have been working a lot, also doing other things but mostly working. I had two great ideas to be two great pieces for an upcoming show I wanted to enter. I began work on the first piece, a pencil drawing on Arches watercolor hot pressed paper (the paper was recommend to me as being someone's favorite paper to use, I did try it for watercolor as the name suggests, but I find that I didn't really care for it in a watercolor usage, maybe I should give it another shot though). I worked on this piece and it soon became apparent that I would not be finishing in anything like enough time to make the two pieces for the show. I resigned myself to the one piece new and using a piece I made in 2010 for my other entry. This week was the entry deadline and I began to fear that I wouldn't be able to finish the one piece in time. I did finish the piece, I framed it and then I felt sick because I don't even know how many hours upon hours I'd poured into this piece and it was not the sort of piece that I wanted representing me in a show. I was very sad and tried to reason with myself that maybe I was just being really harsh. I couldn't talk myself into it, parts of the piece I really loved, and other parts looked like they came out of a comic strip (nothing against comics, it's just not what I was going for). I was really excited about this piece and to show it off to the world but that will not be happening. I may go back and see what I can do to make it better at some point in the future but not right now.
In other news I recently attended a lovely symposium (for lack of a better word) about Sacred Geometry and I'm really excited to get back into it with former enthusiasm. Hopefully I'll have something amazing for display soon.