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I am officially scatter-brained. It's weird...since I've picked up a brush, I have kind of dropped other things down. Yesterday, I was sitting around at work and the thought "gee, I ran out of burnt umber and titanium white" was just swirling around all day while I was sketching. Painting is SO much fun! It really taps into some art of me and gets under my skin. I LOVE it, and oils are GREAT. When I was younger (Haha now I sound like I'm an Egyptian Mummy or something..when I was aliveee mwahaha), one of the girls in class told me that she thought I'd like oils. I was kind of put off by that because I thought acrylic looked like the $h!t at the time (we did watercolour, acrylic and I did gouache a long time ago, coupled with some random @$$ poster paints I was fond of using because they were cheap). Way to see into the future (thankfully I'm still friends with that fortune teller friend and she's still in an art related field today! :). I'm working on a still life piece and am pleased every day to make progress. Painting is a slow, rewarding process. I love working and reworking a piece. It's like clay. You're sculpting on a two dimensional surface, thinking about how the form turns, how the shape of the shadows and highlight dictate the essential shape and form of the objects. I've been looking at D@v!d Gr@y's art, also. I love the idea that your way of painting kind of finds you, but there is no magic and you really just have to put in a lot of 'e@sel time'. I think moreso than say, drawing you NEED to look at a LOT of painting and really OBSERVE from life when you are learning to paint. It's SUPER important. One of the guys in my class has an AMAZING blog (he's also an amazingly talented tattoo artist and is going to be King of the World one day (and NOT in a Le0 d! C@prio kind of way!) where he had the great opportunity to visit Italy. He has some closeups of some Rembrandt paintings. Oyyy...the BRUSHSTROKES are maaaaaaadddddddd!!!! Soooo goood! Compared to someone like, say, contemporary artist D@v!d Leffel, who is so smooth and controlled and light just gently rolls over objects and he uses little slashes of highlights which contrast to the smoothness of his carefully blended shadows. In other news, yes, I am still sculpting, but I'm also waiting on my $4 l@zy sus@n (yes, I'm cheap get over it!). One of my teachers once told me (he got his for $1! Haha) that it was a nice, cheap way to have a turntable so that you could keep working 'in 3D'. Right now I don't have that so it's a bit of an inconvenience while sculpting, because it's not the easiest to keep turning while you're sculpting, which is really important (as well as backing up from your work). It's like 'squinting' in painting...my teacher laughs when I do that haha (because he'll be carrying on a conversation with me about my work randomly and I'll just start squinting like an idiot LOL) Anyways......