dear dave,
great couple of days. Can't believe it's already wednesday (night)
Prints selling well, which is super exciting. $ coming in.
Busy with shirts, preparing prints, returning emails, and preparing for FAB.
Lots going on.
Pizza tonight, printing tomorrow night, Baltimore Friday night, printing Saturday. lots on my plate.
goodnight
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Monday, March 5, 2012
dear dave,
busy busy!
Good saturday at the corcoran. i got a lot accomplished and ended the day feeling good.
Nice relaxing Sunday.
Busy day today. Returned to the Corcoran, and had another successful day. Not as great as Saturday, but it will do.
Things continue to go great business-wise. All on the upswing, with lots of great potential. Selling prints, and being offered great new opportunities to show and sell. Really exciting.
It's 7:30, and I want to call it a day. hex and I will be going back to BUZZ to swap prints again after dinner. Kind of exhausting, but the good exhausting!
busy busy!
Good saturday at the corcoran. i got a lot accomplished and ended the day feeling good.
Nice relaxing Sunday.
Busy day today. Returned to the Corcoran, and had another successful day. Not as great as Saturday, but it will do.
Things continue to go great business-wise. All on the upswing, with lots of great potential. Selling prints, and being offered great new opportunities to show and sell. Really exciting.
It's 7:30, and I want to call it a day. hex and I will be going back to BUZZ to swap prints again after dinner. Kind of exhausting, but the good exhausting!
Friday, March 2, 2012
dear dave,
Things turned around design-wise last night, after blogging despair. I've been so frustrated with this one commission design. What to do?? How to come up with an idea out of thin air. I had a small germ of an idea, but every time I worked on it things just went south, and I could never find anything good or worthy of keeping and pursuing.
It's such a crazy process. I feel completely out of control of my own drawing abilities. I really have no idea how things are going to go until I try, and 9 times out of 10 they go badly. I have to find the discipline to try and try and try. Drawing after drawing until something seems to work. Then I scan it, and the editing process starts.
But editing is fun! I'm over the hump, and just improving things and improvising. All the hard work is over once the key drawing is made. That is usually when I can start feeling creative.
Every once in a blue moon the drawing is easy. First try. I'll sit down, whip something out, like it, scan it, and it just works. That is the sweet spot. I LOVE when that happens, but it's rare.
ANYWAY - back to last night. I started working on this other design, and it wasn't so hard. Things were flowing, and I was out of my bad negative head space. Plus I was working directly on the photo of the yellow shirt (below), which gave me the key idea. The breakthrough! AHHHH. I'm still happy about it, a day later.
I can move on (assuming my client likes it too), and that feels so good.
Things turned around design-wise last night, after blogging despair. I've been so frustrated with this one commission design. What to do?? How to come up with an idea out of thin air. I had a small germ of an idea, but every time I worked on it things just went south, and I could never find anything good or worthy of keeping and pursuing.
It's such a crazy process. I feel completely out of control of my own drawing abilities. I really have no idea how things are going to go until I try, and 9 times out of 10 they go badly. I have to find the discipline to try and try and try. Drawing after drawing until something seems to work. Then I scan it, and the editing process starts.
But editing is fun! I'm over the hump, and just improving things and improvising. All the hard work is over once the key drawing is made. That is usually when I can start feeling creative.
Every once in a blue moon the drawing is easy. First try. I'll sit down, whip something out, like it, scan it, and it just works. That is the sweet spot. I LOVE when that happens, but it's rare.
ANYWAY - back to last night. I started working on this other design, and it wasn't so hard. Things were flowing, and I was out of my bad negative head space. Plus I was working directly on the photo of the yellow shirt (below), which gave me the key idea. The breakthrough! AHHHH. I'm still happy about it, a day later.
I can move on (assuming my client likes it too), and that feels so good.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
dear dave,
keep feeling grumpy at this time of the day (towards the end of the day). I have a few lingering projects that allude me. I can't seem to make any progress on them - and feel panic/frustration just before leaving the studio. Today was the day I would conquer, but I didn't.
Pretty good day today, but not good enough.
ok, enough of the pity party. Have a bunch of printing project lined up for saturday. A good sale today. THings coming along.
Pizza night tonight. That should put me in a better mood.
keep feeling grumpy at this time of the day (towards the end of the day). I have a few lingering projects that allude me. I can't seem to make any progress on them - and feel panic/frustration just before leaving the studio. Today was the day I would conquer, but I didn't.
Pretty good day today, but not good enough.
ok, enough of the pity party. Have a bunch of printing project lined up for saturday. A good sale today. THings coming along.
Pizza night tonight. That should put me in a better mood.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Monday, February 27, 2012
dear dave,
back at the corcoran this afternoon. These forsythia prints are tough. So many pieces. Slow progress. Multiple screens. Blah.
At the end of the day Saturday I started a new Redbud print, and left my screens to finish up today. So after 20 minutes tops, I'm left with 3 dirty screens, another unfinished print, and a whole cycle of cleaning drying, coating, drying, burning, drying before I can continue on. GRRRR. Probably a mistake to leave them like I did.
Anxious to move on! These few prints are a drag. And I wish I liked them better now that they are mostly done. I wish they were bigger and not so overwrought.
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typical monday.
back at the corcoran this afternoon. These forsythia prints are tough. So many pieces. Slow progress. Multiple screens. Blah.
At the end of the day Saturday I started a new Redbud print, and left my screens to finish up today. So after 20 minutes tops, I'm left with 3 dirty screens, another unfinished print, and a whole cycle of cleaning drying, coating, drying, burning, drying before I can continue on. GRRRR. Probably a mistake to leave them like I did.
Anxious to move on! These few prints are a drag. And I wish I liked them better now that they are mostly done. I wish they were bigger and not so overwrought.
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typical monday.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Saturday, February 25, 2012
A moment (to remember??)
Sitting at Starbucks, stalled. I was starving, so I came over from the print studio.
Long line, no seats. Got my bagel and sat out on the deck, in the cold, sun, and wind. Second half of my bagel blew off the table and onto the deck (that windy). I ate it anyway.
Moved downstairs, inside, and grabbed the paper. Nothing seemed interesting to read, so I called Hex.
Frustrated with my work, as usual. The prints I'm working on today that is. Thought I had prepped screens, but I didn't. Missing some positives, anxious about my dark backgrounds, and generally just bogged down. It's a tough print to make, and I'm feeling negative (as usual this stage in the process)
Corcoran studio is busy with students, and we are in each others way. Hate that. Hopefully when I return it will be quieter.
Wearing my shitty dirtbag printing jeans and shoes, bundled up in my coat, dried ink all over my dry, cracked hands. I'm a mess! My head is kind of achy. All I want to do is go home, but I can't. I've got to make it work.
I'm going back now.
Sitting at Starbucks, stalled. I was starving, so I came over from the print studio.
Long line, no seats. Got my bagel and sat out on the deck, in the cold, sun, and wind. Second half of my bagel blew off the table and onto the deck (that windy). I ate it anyway.
Moved downstairs, inside, and grabbed the paper. Nothing seemed interesting to read, so I called Hex.
Frustrated with my work, as usual. The prints I'm working on today that is. Thought I had prepped screens, but I didn't. Missing some positives, anxious about my dark backgrounds, and generally just bogged down. It's a tough print to make, and I'm feeling negative (as usual this stage in the process)
Corcoran studio is busy with students, and we are in each others way. Hate that. Hopefully when I return it will be quieter.
Wearing my shitty dirtbag printing jeans and shoes, bundled up in my coat, dried ink all over my dry, cracked hands. I'm a mess! My head is kind of achy. All I want to do is go home, but I can't. I've got to make it work.
I'm going back now.
Friday, February 24, 2012
dear dave
more settled day today. Trying to set up for tomorrow at the corcoran, and worked on some new cards. Funny, I just do a few new drawings and they seem to work. Feels like I should have put more thought into it all? Did I really just come up with 3 new cards and prints that easily?
XXX is not as easy! Frustrated with that project. Hopefully I find a breakthrough soon. And xxxx stuff too!!
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SUPER FRUSTRATED with ccnow - which has been offline for 2 days now. PISSED off about that. Really pissed off.
more settled day today. Trying to set up for tomorrow at the corcoran, and worked on some new cards. Funny, I just do a few new drawings and they seem to work. Feels like I should have put more thought into it all? Did I really just come up with 3 new cards and prints that easily?
XXX is not as easy! Frustrated with that project. Hopefully I find a breakthrough soon. And xxxx stuff too!!
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SUPER FRUSTRATED with ccnow - which has been offline for 2 days now. PISSED off about that. Really pissed off.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
things turn around. It's a hard won lesson - that I ALWAYS forget.
Great day full of open doors and windows. Crazy how that happens.
New exhibit opportunities, new friends, new contacts, new energy. It's exciting. Feeling good!
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can't seem to get any drawing done for xxxx. Driving me crazy!
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Need to print my ass off. Or I'll have no prints.
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Spring is inspiring.
Great day full of open doors and windows. Crazy how that happens.
New exhibit opportunities, new friends, new contacts, new energy. It's exciting. Feeling good!
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can't seem to get any drawing done for xxxx. Driving me crazy!
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Need to print my ass off. Or I'll have no prints.
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Spring is inspiring.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Friday, February 17, 2012
Feeling calm and settled after a stressed out day.
So good to see Richelle and Gordon and Matt and wendy and katheryn and Kate and Jocelyn and Nina tonight. A blast from the past. Time flies by, but people stay the same. That's really cool.
Joined society6. Interested to see how that works out.
Kind of sucky day. Felt anxious and negative. Hopefully tonight has turned a page.
Goodnight.
So good to see Richelle and Gordon and Matt and wendy and katheryn and Kate and Jocelyn and Nina tonight. A blast from the past. Time flies by, but people stay the same. That's really cool.
Joined society6. Interested to see how that works out.
Kind of sucky day. Felt anxious and negative. Hopefully tonight has turned a page.
Goodnight.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
I remember a few days (weeks?) ago I was complaining here about wanting to redesign my website.
sure enough - that's what I've been working on the past few days. Always feels good and productive and satisfying. Nice to see it tended to and refreshed. It can get so overgrown and shabby and stale. It requires tending to.
Anyway - cut a lot of extra pages and shirts. Reformatted all my t-shirt pages, so you don't have to navigate that extra step to buy. I think that makes so much more sense. Re instituted my commission pages, and integrated them throughout. Updated 2011 exhibits, and added speakeasydc illustrations.
Here are all the pages I've been working so hard on, in case you are interested:
Men's
Women's
Commissions
Portfolio
Bio
Now it's ready for the public, and for NEW content. Feels like a good place to be.
Pizza night tonight, and I am running super late as usual. Poor ms. remi
sure enough - that's what I've been working on the past few days. Always feels good and productive and satisfying. Nice to see it tended to and refreshed. It can get so overgrown and shabby and stale. It requires tending to.
Anyway - cut a lot of extra pages and shirts. Reformatted all my t-shirt pages, so you don't have to navigate that extra step to buy. I think that makes so much more sense. Re instituted my commission pages, and integrated them throughout. Updated 2011 exhibits, and added speakeasydc illustrations.
Here are all the pages I've been working so hard on, in case you are interested:
Men's
Women's
Commissions
Portfolio
Bio
Now it's ready for the public, and for NEW content. Feels like a good place to be.
Pizza night tonight, and I am running super late as usual. Poor ms. remi
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
dear dave,
great lunch at Chipotle today with Tom Goss. I always love my get-togethers with him. I leave feeling happy and inspired. What a great guy!
Working on my site - which feels good and right. It's a good time of the year to clean it up and get it prepared for the year ahead. I'm working on t-shirt layouts to make them simpler, easier to BUY! We'll see. Hopefully my changes will stick, and I won't slink back to my previous formats.
I've got to get out of here, home, out with Remi, then to gym, then back home to meet Hexy! I'll leave it there for now.
great lunch at Chipotle today with Tom Goss. I always love my get-togethers with him. I leave feeling happy and inspired. What a great guy!
Working on my site - which feels good and right. It's a good time of the year to clean it up and get it prepared for the year ahead. I'm working on t-shirt layouts to make them simpler, easier to BUY! We'll see. Hopefully my changes will stick, and I won't slink back to my previous formats.
I've got to get out of here, home, out with Remi, then to gym, then back home to meet Hexy! I'll leave it there for now.
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