Epiphanies

So, the semester ended with a strange explosion of ideas and a sour taste in my mouth. Mostly from when I checked my grades. Man, last semester was harsh.

As an artist, our greatest foe is the "artist funk", or when you can't get anything to come out right, or you just can't develop ideas at all. It's like that special way of seeing shuts down for repairs. Well last semester I was plagued with it. My artist eyes took a very long blink if you will. All ideas became a single strange of idea. Which I will scan and post later. But needless to say I was fucked in all of my classes. The solution for me? Introspection! Its painful at first, looking at your self. You see everything bad as well as good. And most of the time for me I encase things with the bad, so it took a while before I saw the good. But, once I carved away at the bad stuff the pain they brought was less and less. Then I discovered a wealth of good things, and I've been exploring them a lot lately. To my joy, this has cause several epiphanies and literally thousands of ideas for both my paintings and ceramics.

I'll have to go into this later tonight. I'm still cleaning house from the surprise (but very welcomed) party we had. :)

Cioa!

Clay, Cleaning, and a Kid.

Today... I've spend the morning cleaning my house and will continue to do so as its a horrible mess. After that I have to pick up my nephew and watch him until midnight, which isn't a problem, he's a good kid. I'll be taking him to my studio, I'll work on some of my sculptures while he plays around outside and with some clay. I like taking him to the lab with me, I think its good for all kids to get exposed to the arts as soon as they are ready and willing. Maybe I can get him to make something on his own this time. Last time he was there he made a house (in which I put all the walls up and he attacked it, giving it texture and as my professor calls it, variation). Either way, I think he enjoys it.
I'll try to post pictures of my work today, I'll take some new ones of the work I'm doing as well. And hey! Who knows, I might do a watercolor tonight and post it tomorrow! ^__^;

Well, I need to get back to cleaning!

::edit::

So I didn't get a chance to go out to the lab today. Jimi wasn't ready for the lab, due to the fact that if he throws a fit in the lab his chance of destroying very expensive things are high. So I've decided to play it save and keep him at home. Thus, I have cleaned my apartment! Just a few things left, at which I'll wait for his departure to finish.

Possibly I could start work on a painting. I've been playing videogames in between cleaning. I was playing ChuChu Rocket and Metroid fusion. I've beaten ChuChu and now I'm nearing the end of Metroid.

Nathan.