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A menopausal 30 year old, over two years after hysterectomy, struggling with body changes and weight gain.

Monday, November 14, 2011

An Idea

I'm trying to draw more.  It helps my mood, I'm relatively good at it, and I can possibly sell it.  I'm having a problem that I've always had when it comes to drawing.  I can never decide on a subject matter, so I'm all over the map.  My professor in college scolded me for not developing a signature style.  Well I've got kind of an impressionist style down, but I still want for ideas.
A co-worker from Iowa Telecom, Shari Workman, is a fantastic photographer and has given me permission to use her photographs to draw from.  Right now I'm so reluctant to put stuff up on Etsy because of copyright stuff.  I've always just grabbed photos off the internet to draw from.

So....  I had a new idea.  I've always loved human anatomy and that was the main thing I drew in college.  Since I'm in this sort of limbo full of turmoil regarding my body, I feel like I should draw myself.  I don't want to sit in front of a mirror because I just can't hold still for very long.
I just need a lamp for more extreme light and dark and a sheet to put behind me or on the ground.  I'm not sure who I'd ask to take my picture.  I'm leaning toward Squirt or Dee right now.  I think this could be therapeutic, like Mary Lundberg's cancer art.

4 comments:

  1. If I had a better camera, I would!

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  2. This sounds like an awesome amazing idea. Dee or squirt would be good photographers.

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  3. Have at my photo's Sweetie. And let the creative juices flowwww. You're good at letting yourself go, so once again .. or still, I have faith in you.

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