Music, Writing, Art, and Pizza

[wyld_dandelyon]

Every year the 19th Street Coffeehouse has a winter talent contest, right in the coldest and most inhospitable time to take yourself and your instruments out into the world.  Most years I think about entering, look at the date, and realize the finals are the Saturday during Capricon.  Oh, well, friends outrank contests, even though I am competitive enough to really enjoy games and contests.

This year, however, the final round of the contest is the week after Capricon, so I went ahead and entered.  The first round was January 27th, and I just got word that I made it into the finals!  So, if you're in Milwaukee on February 18, you can come see me compete.

In art news, I finished a couple of drawings that started out as sketches in SketchFests:

Dreaming of Butterflies will be Torn World "mystery art" which means, she will be in the non-canon gallery until she is identified as a character.  Is she your character?

Shrallan During the Flower Festival is a drawing of a character in Wild Snowy Chase.

Over at Torn World, I have a new poem:  Advice for a Young Carnal Guild Worker.  The poem itself is visible to everyone, but the backstory is reserved for Torn World subscribers.

I also have a few written entries in the Torn World Fashions & Fads contest, though not as many as I'd hoped.  Between getting ready for the Coffeehouse contest, which involved putting new strings on the guitar as well as the usual practicing and tuning and such, and life being unduly busy, I didn't have as much time I wanted for writing.  But at least I am pleased with the bits I did manage to finish. 

My Angel has been getting herself take-out pizza, which is all to the good, except I was out of Deirdre-safe pizza crusts, so I've been wanting pizza.  Today I finally got to the Gluten Free Trading Company and got some crusts, so after other errands, I came home and made spinach pizza!  I didn't have room for cookies, but I also picked up Deirdre-safe cookies for another day.

And now I'm half-asleep, so I'll wish you all Good Night!

Comments

[red_trillium]

Congratulations on making it to the finals! Good luck with the 18th, I hope it goes great!

The sketches are nice, you're skills seem to be improving. The faces are more symmetrical and smoother somehow. I can't put it into words.

Nice work.

[wyld_dandelyon]

Thank you!

I am getting better--and I also got a lot of good comments from people to help me fix the sketches up before finalizing the images. It's good to have help from your friends. :-D You did put it into words pretty well, actually, just not in artists' jargon.

How are you doing these days?

[red_trillium]

That's great you got some helpful input on the sketches to help you finalise them. I'm not good at that kind of thing, only at a "looks nice" comment level but thought I'd try to conceptualise why I liked it.

I'm doing ok, life has been pretty busy and I feel there is so much I want to do but don't have time or energy. Work still saps me and I'm still looking for an alternative.

I started a letter to you, I'm still in the middle of it so not sure when it will go out. If I can take some time today I'll be writing on it more.

:)

[wyld_dandelyon]

Comments like "the chin isn't symmetrical" or "the right eye seems too big" or "is out of place" are perfect comments! You saying "she looks more symmetrical now" shows that you can see those elements, you just haven't developed the skill about talking about them.

It is a real blessing to have people willing to make comments like that so I can improve a sketch.

I love hearing from you, I look forward to the letter, whenever you get it done.

[red_trillium]

I'm sorry I'm not around as much. I'm gone from 12 hours a day now, 5 days a week. The few times I am around I am wiped and suffer Must-Do-Paralysis. I miss taking time to read your journal & my friends pages. :(

[wyld_dandelyon]

Gosh that's a long day!

[red_trillium]

It is. I could probably cut about 30 minutes off it if I took a later train in the am, but I really like getting the 6:21am if I can, they I get a seat to myself and can write in the mornings if I'm awake enough (otherwise it's a shared seat and/or standing room only most the journey). If I wasn't so busy at work I'd kick back when I first get in (I get in about an hour before I have to start working), but really I usually will get in and figure out what I need to do that day, what the priorities are, get rid of some old emails, etc. while I make my coffee.

Other than that, my work day is from 8:30-5, then get on one of 2 trains depending on when exactly I leave the office & how fast I walk to the train station. My usual train gets in around 6:10pm & if we go straight home I'm back around 6:30pm.

:( I had to put in some overtime last week and I"m going to have to do it again but I am trying really hard to not do it if I can stand it.

[bogwitch64.livejournal.com]

All around



are in order!

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

Thank you!