You and the Clouds

It’s a very strange day.  It’s like the beginning of a horror movie or some sci-fi bullshit.  The sky is overcast, but glowing in some areas where the illuminated puffy white clouds show through.  The air is still and humid.  It rained earlier, giving everything that sort of “just woke up” atmosphere.  Very green, lush and calm.  Like Vermont is breathing in.

I had to drive down into town to buy a TV dinner for lunch.  I noticed my fish were ALL acting strange.  I noticed the rain beaded up on my neighbor’s car, but not mine.  I only had $14 for milk, lunch and a snack.  The whole town is dead silent.  Very little traffic, very few people; not a lot of noise despite the train moving through town hauling oil tankers.  The people at the store stare forward at nothing and say little.  They want their food and to go home, just like me.  Now the wind is moving a little and the sumacs outside are waving with a breeze that I hope will bring in some rain.  I’ve got to go to work soon and I don’t want to.

I realize now that I haven’t made a single piece of art in about three weeks or more.  Not a sketch, a line, a note.

Yesterday I was in the middle of a humvee procession and it was cool.  I really hope someone on the interstate could see my car over the cow pasture and thought I was some kind of national criminal in a tiny red Prizm.

I wish I had Illustrator, a creemee and ambition.

(It’s called a creemee here.  Deal with it or STFU)

Projects

So as it may or may not be known, I’m on an artistic hiatus…Okay, not a hiatus from art, but a hiatus from GF.  I’ve explained myself in the forum.  I’ve got a lot of ideas I want to get done or start or attempt.

deviantART has this “100 Art Challenge”: 100 words, 100 images.  I’ve been wanting to do this for some time.  I’m obviously not going to take ALL the time from GF to work on this, as I’d be gone for YEARS.  But I’d like to start it.

Musical images: I’ve been collecting piles of songs on my iTunes and am planning do to one page strips based on some lyrics from some songs.  It sounds hokey, but most of the lyrics won’t be said, but acted out.  Maybe you can guess what song they are from if you study it long enough (or cheat and Google it, you son of a bitch).

Artbook:  Everyone and their mother make artbooks nowadays and I’d like to be paid for some art as opposed to putting it up on dA where, technically, it’s unprotected and unpaid for.  I’d like to compile a digital artbook, mostly Illustrator trials I’ll be doing during this downtime.

Losing weight: I’ll be doing some anatomical study using stock photos and stalking procedures to thin down characters that have since been sort of average.

I know there was some more stuff I wanted to do, but I thought I’d post this in case you were wondering what I’ll be doing.

Hello.

Yes. I restarted my blog. This means all those dream journal entries and events and people I wanted to remember are now gone forever (well, the people are still around…). My bad. I blame 2am and public television.

Welcome!

I have no idea what to do with this blog. I’d rather not have another rant/emo/PMS journal again, my reviews are in my Forum and my alarm clock destroys any chance of remembering dreams other than nightmares.

Man, I’m really bummed about losing all those entries.