My artistic frontiers: How the paint hits the canvas for me

Nov 12, 2007

I started making these little paper models of animals with my youngest son. I'll post a picture of them sometime. I like it and he and I get to spend time together this way.

I love to take photographs and am trying to figure out how I can start again with the tools I have while planing for the next (expensive) technology leap. That is, I have a very nice Canon Eos 35mm FILM camera, which is ridiculously pricey to operate (film and developing). I have a tiny 3 megapixel digital, and I have iPhoto on my Mac. That's all I have and that's what will have to do for now. The Art Institute lion photo was taken with the tiny camera, and I think it turned out pretty good.

My writing has left me. I have written the novel I mentioned, and a bunch of stories, but I think that is all gone for now. I don't know if it will come back, but for now I am okay without it.

I am going to be taking cooking classes at a gourmet shop nearby. Little one-night classes. Fat, sugars, acids, starches, spices, and heat are apparently my natural media!


On the other thing with my wife, nothing much has changed. Though I wonder: she has a very bad opinion of herself. I wonder if I loved her less, would she value me more? I mean, to her, how could I be so great if I love a person like her so much? Just something I'm thinking.

Andy