Spring Break

I am incredibly tired.  I spent a majority of my spring break at a five day interviewing process in Charlottesville, Virginia.  It was a good experience, but when every hour of your day is planned out and you are constantly trying to impress a panel of unidentified judges that could be anywhere secretly observing you, it gets pretty tiring.  Unfortunately, I did not enjoy doing concentration pieces at all.  I usually like them, but they just feel like tasks now, not a lot of fun.  I think it stems from a lack of ideas coupled with spending 2 weeks out of town this month and lots of other work to be done.  Hopefully I can get through this check because I think next month will be a lot better

Mid March

I just got back from a five day swim meet in Washington and am feeling pretty terrible.  The meet went really well, but I'm tired, irritated, and behind on everything ... can't say I didn't warn you.

I'm going back to plain old acrylic on canvas this time around.  I'm trying to get away from facial expressions, but it's harder than I thought.  Hands also can being very expressive, but it is challenging to find some hand expressions that aren't completely tacky or really inappropriate.  I'm sure I will figure it out sooner or later.