Well, I just did a quick piece of artwork tonight. It took me about an hour.

I know I won’t be able to draw or paint every day this month. And the art today is not a continuance of the painting from yesterday.

However, I MUST start getting more drawing done, because I have some opportunities coming up in the next few months, which I am happy about, but more on that on a later post.

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls”

– Pablo Picasso

 

How many of you artists out there agree? And if you have  a day job, if you come home and paint or draw in the evenings, art can take you away from it all.  That’s what I love, I think about NOTHING ELSE when I am painting. My mind is IMMERSED in what I am doing at that moment.

 

I have to be totally honest about something, I decided that everyday I will pick up a pencil and draw something even for 30 minutes.

 

Today I was quite tired. I don’t know if my body is still recovering even after 2 months, but I seem to get more tired now than I ever have. I am taking an abundance of vitamins and minerals every day and doing some sort of exercise every day. Even if it is ten minutes. But I have a strenuous job too, and I do not get to sit down. I am on the go all day long. So, that COULD be a factor but nevertheless, I am just tired. Today was even moreso.

 

SO… I decided NOT to work on my art from yesterday. Have any of you artists out there been working on a painting or drawing and so tired that you sort of nod off and it makes a mark you don’t want? I have done that plenty of times especially if I am painting in to the wee hours of the night.

 

I am not ruining my painting of CAMILLE, so I decided to do a little sketch tonight.

 

 

I am going to keep my drawing and art skills up so I decided just to do a little sketch tonight, this is of a thatch roof cottage I saw a few weeks ago on one of my “Stroll for the Soul” outings… and YES I DO have to get some more pics and posts on that site, I am behind a bit.

The trouble is…

I really do need to sit and make myself a list of things that are IMPORTANT and that I need to do. I spend a stupid amount of time on mundane things.

So tomorrow, I don’t know if I will have a post. As I said earlier, I am going to be completely honest.  When I was in the hospital, I don’t know if it was my body talking to me, or what, but I decided I will NO LONGER BE A COUCH POTATO.  However I was a couch potato because I had anemia and I had anemia because I didn’t eat right and take care of my body, and it made me a couch potato, so there you go.

 

Even though I was in hospital only one night, it scared me so much. In the following two months, I have been to doctor’s appointments a number of times and the hospital for specialist appointments twice. So in the interim, I decided I will eat right and lose weight. And that is what I have done. I joined a slimming club and I have lost 20 lbs in two months. The thing is on Thursdays, after I finish work, go to the meeting, then eat my dinner it is time to settle down for bed, and I am totally exhausted. So I usually don’t do anything on Thursdays.

 

So you may not hear from me tomorrow. Anyway I hope you have enjoyed this little sketch.

 

I need to remember to make myself a list on Friday evening. And then go from there, there are some really important things I must do this month and next month.

 

Thank you very much for dropping by!

Ciao for now,

Cindy