5 results for “luck”
Got the go-ahead on a commission for a large landscape piece. It's a local scene, a rolling hill farm at sunset. I'm so excited but also a little nervous, it's bigger than anything I've done before. I've stretched a 30x40 canvas and now just have to actually put brush to it. Wish me luck! I'll need all the focus I can get with the kids home for the summer too. Maybe I'll hide out in the garage studio after bedtime.
I was working on this piece for like 14 hours straight yesterday, just totally gone in it. Charcoal, big sheet, just a face emerging from black. And I finished it and stood back and just started crying like an absolute fool. Not even sad crying. Just, it came out right. For once it actually said what I meant it to say. My roommate came down and saw me standing there crying in the dark studio and was like "...should I be worried." 😭 Anyway the drawing is good. Like really good. I think this is the first time in months I've made something that doesn't feel like I'm just practicing. It feels like I actually arrived somewhere with it. Gonna try to hold onto this feeling instead of waking up tomorrow and hating it. Wish me luck.
Started this piece at 6am hyped as hell, had it all in my head, the feeling was THERE. And now it's 9pm and I'm staring at these two dead fish eyes that look nothing like the person I was trying to paint. They're technically fine. That's the worst part. They're just. Fine. No soul. I know the advice. Walk away. Come back tomorrow. But I can feel the whole thing going stale while I sleep on it. The energy leaks out overnight and tomorrow it's just a painting I have to fix instead of a thing that was alive. Sometimes I think the bad ones are my fault and the good ones are luck and I hate that I can't tell the difference.
almost didnt open the email, it was buried in promotions. an actual juried gallery open call, and they want to see THREE pieces from me. me. ive spent so long assuming these things are for other people, the ones with the right degrees and the right contacts. im submitting tonight before i talk myself out of it. wish me luck, or talk me out of the spiral, whichever one you think i need more
I've used the same Raphael 838 mop for glazing for about four years. The handle was starting to feel good, you know, worn in. So I bought a new one last month for the studio, same model, same size, and it shed from the first rinse. A dozen hairs in the rinse water. Then another dozen on the first application. I thought maybe I'd been too rough with it, so I babied it for a week. Still shedding. Yesterday I actually sat down and counted the loose hairs after a wash. Twenty-three. On a brush that costs what it costs. The old one has never lost a single hair in years. So either I got a dud, or Raphael changed something. The ferrule is slightly different, more crimped, less even, and the hair feels slightly stiffer, less of that real squirrel belly softness. I'm wondering if they switched suppliers for the hair itself and just didn't say anything. Anyone else had this with their recent Raphaels, or is it just my bad luck?