I heard a bit of Viola Davis' acceptance speech from the Screen Actors Guild awards on the radio on my way back from dropping off the boys at school. She said, amongst other things; "Dream big and dream fierce!" I LOVE that. I'm still playing with faces. I have a bit of experimentation going on here with the big eyes. I'm not sure I like that stylized feature very much. She was fun none-the-less.
Yesterday was my 43rd birthday. I have no problem with admitting to my age. I think part of it is because no one believes me when I say I'm in my 40's. They think I'm younger. And another part of it is having young children, they keep me young. I play games, I color and I feel younger than my years. And I'm just grateful for life in general. I try really hard not to sweat the small stuff. My cake has eight candles on it. One for each decade, one for each year and an extra one for good luck. In my family, we have always added an extra candle to the birthday cakes for good luck. It's kind of a silly tradition.
I went to another figure drawing session this morning. I'll journal about that later to complete the spread. I had an embarrassing moment there. I was moving my stuff to a different table and my box of supplies fell and spilled all over the floor. I felt like such a newbie. Broken charcoal and conte crayon all over the place. HA!
Hello and happy Birthday to you. I will be 43 this year and the 40's have been so great for me. I've finally started making time for ME and doing things I've wanted to for years, like art journaling.
ReplyDeleteYour girl is so cute, love her hair. The cake is so pretty and I like the story about the candles.
Read thru your last few posts and really enjoyed them and your blog. You are talented and creative.
Thank you for sharing!!
Happy B'day. I really see such a change in your portraits. Too funny 'bout the figure lesson "moment", but I've discovered these awkward instances actually break the ice or the pencils in your case.
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I ADORE your journal pages. The backgrounds of these are gorgeous and so lush and vivid. I think I'm starting to love making backgrounds more than most anything on my pages.
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday! I always try and stick closer to how old I feel- for a long time I felt 15, then it switched to 19, and I think sometime in the last year I've gone up to maybe 23 or 24. That's how I feel, at least. Like I'm still quite young but have a little bit of maturity and experience under my belt.
I definitely don't feel 37. The really scary thing is that I was talking to someone a few months ago and TOTALLY forgot how old I was. Tom had to clue me in. I kept sticking to 36 and 38. I guess I think about the number in abstract terms, although for some reason 38 makes more sense to me than 37. 37 seems like a blah number to me- you never hear anyone saying "when I was 37, that was a powerful time..." ;)