Guess what I get to do tomorrow morning? ::shudders:: I get to visit the dentist! EEEK!

I am guessing that I will be numb for up to 3 days since I require about 2 vials of novacaine before I can handle the sound of that high pitched drill so close to my brain. That’s a good thing. I will just have to take additional pain medication prior to my appointment so that the injections don’t make me squeal, either!

Yep I’m every dentists’ nightmare patient. Now you know something about me that you may not have known before!

I also have to be pre-medicated. For those of you who don’t know what that means, it means I have to take about a weeks worth of antibiotics an hour before and 2 hours after my appointment. Why? Cause I have some heart-valve problems, and apparently the bacteria that enters your bloodstream during dental work goes directly to your heart and advances the problems faster than they normally would. Yipee!

I hate going to the dentist. Bah. And the insurance coverage? Eh, so-so. It seems no health insurance on the face of the planet really wants anyone to get restorative work done, so they issue you a check for two-cents and send you to the bank to take out a second-mortgage on your home. By the time you’re done paying that loan off, you’re back at the dentist getting dentures anyway. 😛

Ok I’m going to go paint. On cam. I may or may not post work in progress pics, I’ll see how it goes!

Happy Thursday everybody!

I did get a few more sketches done today, the top two are from the 4×4 countdown (one upgraded to 5×7). The goobly gobbly one is CAKE. Yes I’m gonna paint a cake. MMM. And if you’re nice to me and post a whole bunch, I’ll share the recipe with you. heh.

This one is Sissy, she’s a white kitty and will be a nice dramatic portrait since she’s got really beautiful long white fur. Her left eye looks strange right now because I just outlined where it will appear to be. There is a beautiful drop shadow cast on her left side, she will actually have a similar (and reversed) shading effect of Into The Light.

Here’s another sketch ready and waiting for paint…

This is Adriana, she’s getting a peachy monochromatic portrait painted of her!

I am missing 2 of this group of 4×4 paintings, because I am waiting on canvas. Bah.

So, of my group of folks who were with me the night the countdown ran to zero, do ya know which one is yours?

In case you didn’t notice, I’ve been in a funk the last few days. I knew that before Mark got home that there would be an adjustment period both emotionally and financially. Some days are more surreal than others, and I think the surreal days really throw me for a loop.

I started working on Rusty’s portrait late last week. I had scheduled him to begin and end during the week, and now that’s all out of whack. That bugs me, since I’m pretty schedule-oriented when it comes to painting. Now I feel like I am not ready to go back to him yet and finish him, something happened and now there’s a hurdle I must climb.

I stopped to work on Adriana’s portrait, and Mark came home from work just as I was getting ready to paint. It threw me off a little bit, because I now have self-imposed guilt for painting during the little time we have together now that he’s back on the road. When I finished, I didn’t like the result. Some of you may have seen the pic of the painting I posted, but after looking at it the following morning I was really disappointed with myself and how it turned out, so I pulled the entry here and am going to re-paint her in a different color scheme.

Mark home = more food in the house = Leanne has munchies. That has really and very literally weighed me down. I started treadmilling routinely last week and increased my water intake again, when The Man is around, I let everything slide and I can’t let myself do that. I think that’s the crux of my funk, when I feel yicky it reflects in every single thing I do.

I lost my focus! EEK!

So now I am figuring out what I’m gonna do. I did place my order for the canvas I need to work on another portrait this week, that should be here tomorrow. I’m not quite ready to get back to Rusty, I am still painting Adriana (in her new color scheme) in my head. I have plenty of paintings scheduled, a lot of them coming up here are the little ones, the 4×4’s of assorted goodies. I’m inclined to get them all sketched and have them all in front of me, that tends to feed my artistic appetite.

Well, there you have it. I am going to try to go get inspired!! Clean some brushes, sketch some canvas, and crank some tunes.

Hope you have a good one!

To sum it up:

Brr.

Cleaned windows.

Emptied garage attic and house attic for garage sale.

Picked up Mark’s bifocals (baaahahahaaa and ooooohhhhlala!), had my new glasses repaired.

Walked around the mall.

Bought jeans for 8-year old weed.

Bought sandals for 3 and 8 year old weeds.

Bought books for 3 and 8 year old sponges.

Picked up repaired glasses.

Stopped at Blick for canvas that I need for what I’ll be painting this week. They’re out of stock, have to order online. Should have ordered online 2 days ago like I wanted. But no. Argh. Where did my great art karma go?

Went to new-just-opened-two-days-ago grocery store and walked 5 miles and bought stuff we really didn’t need because it was oh-so-cool to buy stuff in the new store and their “self-checkout” line.

Screwed around in the self-checkout line forever because the thing has a scale and camera (or something) and yells at you if you don’t set your milk down after you scan it. You are not allowed to put the item directly in your cart after scanning. You must pile it all on a tiny surface and await further instructions from the computer, because it knows way more than you do.

Came home, started dinner. Spaghetti. Nummiest spaghetti I’ve made in a long time. Mm.

Cleaned up after dinner.

Ate some Ben & Jerry’s. Dublin. Mudslide. Best. Ice Cream. Ever.

Fell asleep with full-belly 10 minutes after the girls went to bed.

Any of you have any interesting stories, jokes, poems or anything to share?

I’m sure something interesting will happen here at some point today, but for right now, I got nothin’. Jeez.

Help me out here, wouldjya?

I just finished Rusty’s underpainting. I’ll be completing this portrait tomorrow! BTW, here is what he will look like when he’s completed.

And in your spare time, watch this: Flash Sketch of a Woman

It is incredible.