{"id":2191,"date":"2019-01-15T17:31:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T23:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsallmalarkey.com\/staging\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2020-03-16T11:19:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T16:19:33","slug":"once-more-into-the-fray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itsallmalarkey.com\/staging\/2019\/01\/15\/once-more-into-the-fray\/","title":{"rendered":"Once more into the fray."},"content":{"rendered":"

As promised, I am back from my short sabbatical.<\/p>\n

You know a phrase that absolutely drives two-dimensional artists up the wall? “I would love it, but I just don’t have wall space.” I, however, am guilty of saying this all the time<\/em>, because I really do not<\/em> have any extra wall space!<\/p>\n

Since I lost my brand-new studio<\/a>, I spent a large chunk of last month moving and organizing and re-arranging things. Rather than try to find a new outside location, I have been trying to fit myself  into one of the rooms of my house. Notice there isn’t a lot of available wall space left! I haven’t quite used every<\/em> available inch, but I am getting close.<\/p>\n

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It’s been a time consuming process that would have put me behind on my nearly all of my deadlines on its own, but added to holiday crazies, some random illness, and a rather embarrassing episode where I mixed up allergy pills with sleeping pills, it has made the past month just flat stupid.<\/p>\n

Things will continue to be a bit disrupted for the next month or so. I am finally getting the framing issue handled, which means I have this week received multiple deliveries which require additional rearranging to fit in. Though one of those deliveries is a brand-new saw, so once it is put together, operational, and adjusted I will get to feel powerful and stressed, instead of just stressed. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

In and around the disruptions and frustrations, I have actually been painting quite a bit. However, all of it has been for a large commission that I am not allowed to share with the public until July. Not finished, yet, but a much larger step toward “done”. Stop back in July when I shall be proudly showing them all off in the adult equivalent of “lookie, lookie”.<\/p>\n

Things will continue to be a bit hit or miss for the next little bit, until I get a few more pieces of the puzzle to snap into place, and then we will get back to the fun stuff. I have a lot of ideas that I am quite impatient to share.<\/p>\n

My brain hit a very hard wall with my large project, however, so I took a break to paint something just because I wanted to. Normally when I see things I paint I see every flaw–and this one is chock full of flaws. However, for some reason on this one I can look past it. It feels strangely calming for me, and I don’t think that is only because I finally took a break to paint something completely different than I have for the past few weeks.  This isn’t the best image in the world (less bright) as scanning larger pieces is a problem I have yet to find a solution for. Once the framing issue is functionally solved, good quality images of larger works will be the next item on the to-do list. Since I can see it in person, however, for some reason it makes me oddly happy.<\/p>\n

I would probably attempt to keep it to myself…but as we have already established, I have no wall space. My husband would prefer that I not start mounting things to the ceiling.<\/p>\n

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