Stardate 14072018 : Personal log : Pain & Painting
I haven't wanted to get on my soap box and have a whinge about my health on here too much. I figured with the mood already a bit low, last thing I need is to be doom and gloom on my blog but I figured I better let you guys know what's up.
It's been about 3 weeks since I've been ill and although it's nothing like the agonizing 'feels like my bones are gonna crumble' from March/April, it's pretty brutal when it comes to the constant pain.
Without going into details bottom line right now is I need to watch my diet and what I eat. Back off all my favourite things that make life worth living like.. Rice, sugar, carbs - basically my 3 main food groups are now off limits (kill me) and I need to start eating lots of green veggies..
@dfinney now you know why I knocked back Hot Tamales! Dessert platters are off the menu 😭
Between the pain, hunger and cravings I've been a real narky bitch lately who's all out of patience so I've been trying to stay low and not do personal blogs (or chat much!) until I feel better cos I just can't help when my mouth runs off..
That and I keep making mistakes like transferring funds to the wrong person (thanks @webcoop for fixing that for me). I also forget a lot of things (like yesterday's Sunday post for @SteemPh) and I walk around the house not knowing what I was doing... I'm just not with it at the moment.
The song challenge has been awesome in taking my mind off all my crap and so has my painting efforts, which, I'm relieved to say, is starting to come together.
Music and Art are the things keeping me sane at the moment and when the pain crew decides to camp out in my stomach, I pump the music up and I paint. And you know what? It actually helps!
These are my recent pours over the last week.
I've been experimenting with a few things like..
Direct pour lines
The swipe method
A pipe...
Dirty pour
You may have noticed they're all mostly WIP pictures. That's because I'd like to share the details, hopefully sometime this week. As it is, this post has taken me 2 days to write 😪 and it's no where near as long as my usual.
Speaking of my usual. Please excuse me if I don't get my usual 300 words out. I'm just buggered these days I feel like everything works on a point system and I only have 50 points for a 100 point standard day. If that makes any sense.
Well I'm off peeps! I'm hoping to build up some reserve energy today now that I'm armed with my freshly made bone broth and my new bag of nuts and grains.. My new "treats".. Good bye lollies and choccies... Helloo nuts and grains.. and if I get really lucky, I'll find a Goji berry or a yogurt coated strawberry in my bowl.
Life is still good guys!
(Just don't look at Blockfolio.. 😂)
Lookin good, Hopefully I can get into this soon, want to create something spectacular too.
I hope you can too!! I was thinking, and I'd love your thoughts on this... Would you be interested in doing an art swap with other artists? I can see one of my walls covered with coaster size art work from Steemians.
The idea is to create art on a 10cm x 10cm "canvas". Doesn't matter what it's made of, it just needs to be 10x10 square. So it could be a 10x10 tile, timber board, flat canvas, stretch canvas, resin, glass.. whatever.
This means depending on the height of the piece. Each piece should be able to be mailed as a letter making it cheaper to post for everyone involved.
In the end, we should all have something like this..
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Get the kids involved! Why wait any longer? You could have the next Picasso there somewhere.
Are you in?!
That sounds awesome!!! I would totally be in for this! Kinda like a Steemit art swap where everyone can show off their trades on their wall.
Yup!! It's gonna be amazing!!
Brother's great post, good luck always
Sorry to hear that you have not been well I'm glad that you have your paintings to distract you from your pain. I find the same thing with my writing.
Aww thanks hun. Gotta love having a creative outlet. It helps so much, in so many ways. ❤
Sorry to hear health has been crap :S But veges are delicious :D
Art is a great drug, definitely one of my safer vices! I still have exactly no idea how you're doing those pours (even though I don't think you could show/demonstrate it any clearer than you already are, it's just me, I'm dumb XD) but they do look great :)
Aww thanks Ry. Yep. Ive been gorging down my veggies lately. I dont actually mind them. We've just been super indulgent the last few months and it's caught up to me in a big way.
Haha the pours are super easy! And I can actually make it even easier explain by doing a live pour.. Which is the plan as soon as I figure it out lol
Get better soon boss. The pours are looking good to
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STOPI just did some AskSteem thing to see all the posts that i’ve been tagged in... wouldn’t you know I missed this!
Man... sweets... 😭
I know the past 9 days haven’t been much better than things were when you made this post. Hopefully the next 9 and more will be HEAPS better! 😘