Every now and again you have an absolute shocker... the paint just won't go down right, the colours are off and no matter what you try to do to it it just won't come together. This hasn't happened to me for quite some time, and most work has been salvageable at least... but I think I may have a new nemesis.
The theme over at Inspiration Avenue this week was Masquerade Ball, and my immediate thought was this was great... I love masks and patterns and things like that so this should work out to be a good challenge for me... unfortunately not quite the way it worked out. went more like this:
find mask
do drawing of mask
change mind and find another mask
do another drawing of mask
make a cup of tea and think the first one was better
ink in the first one
spill jar of painty water over it
redraw
ink it up again
another cup of tea
paint in mask bit
decided like the second mask design better
start and repeat process - minus the painty water incident
be relatively happy
decide to do the background
botch the background and make it way too bright
pour humungous glass of wine
wake up feeling a tad seedy - turns out wine and cold medication don't work so well
look at the picture above and place head in hands
scan and print out some multiples to play with
decide top one okay
ask Steve when she gets home school and be greeted by a "That looks pretty ordinary Mum"
threaten to cut her arms off if she has nothing constructive to add
agree it is kind of ordinary
stare and stare at the top option
have flashbacks to the Bloody Papaya debacle of a few years ago
consider drinking copious amounts of alcohol or starting again
decide to print more
can't find the file
scan again and manage to slam scanner lid on finger
hop around studio with Steve's laughter ringing in my ears
threaten to chop off other body parts
hurl glare at her retreating back
print out more copies
in different sizes and on different papers
play with them and create something that isn't quite as embarrassing
Steve raises her eyebrows and says
" don't look at me I'm just plain scared by you now"
scan finished product
looks rubbish because turns out the tracing paper top layer doesn't scan well
take a shot
at night
after a wine
while swatting mosquitoes
post the sucker
link it to Inspiration Avenue
pour another glass of wine
and another
and another...