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July 1 2005 3:12am (Friday)

I'm up late so that means I've been just "thinking," pondering, things as I work on stuff.

One of the things I was pondering about is artists and their emotions when working. How many of the artists out
there NEED to do art or are they now just doing it because they're good at it and it gains them attention (and
$)?

How many of them feel that soul pull, that itch, that…<I>need</I> to take a piece of chalk, a pencil, a pen, and
bring the image that's inside of them out, magically placing it to paper, making it real. Does their art ever evoke
an intense emotion in themselves? Sadness. Happiness. Rage. All of the emotions. I know that when I'm writing,
some of my passages can evoke strong images that can bring out those emotions as the characters in the writing
are put through a crisis or some such thing.

That's the way that I feel about art and writing. Lately it's been writing, but I can feel my art muse <I>finally
</I> returning because my fingers are starting to "itch" when I see certain imagery. Or when I hear different
types of music.

With music I fly and the magic flows.

I'll bet that's how musicians feel, too.

I wonder what inspires other artists out there…*waves to other magic makers* :)

(Later this morning. Back up. Went to bed at 5 am for goodness sake and am up at 9:30. Silly sleep schedule. Will
likely nap today.)

July 1st 2005 (Friday)

Woo hoo. Friday! *grin* Not that it really makes a difference to my time table as every day is pretty much the
same to me.

And it's hot. Not as hot as some places, I'm sure. But it's around, oh 103 today. So I'm going to be a hermit zebby
today and stay inside in the AC.

I feel like cooking. Haven't felt like that in a while. I'll likely make some stew and soup and deviled eggs--I make
killer deviled eggs. Mmmmmmm. *grin*

And work on my stuff. I'm updating my site. Trying to get the few pieces of artwork I have done in the past year
up on the site. That and I'm writing.

I'm part of a writing challenge for the month of July. My goal is at least four pages a day or 1.5 hours a day at just
working on my stories. I have two and I'm also not bound to work on specifics, so I could start a new piece if I
want. I already have, just barely, so that's among the "to work on" pieces. Woo hoo! Maybe I'll kick my arse in
gear and get another novel done! Bwa ha ha ha ha. Yah. Right. *grin* But then, I finished the last third of Blood
Storm in three days. Miracles do happen.

I'm also watchin' my backyard aliens. This heat will likely undo them completely.

But we'll see…

Remember the Kir'ix I painted some time ago? It was not bad. I loved the wings, but I knew that something just
didn't work. It looked very…flat.

I love Adobe photoshop. *hee hee hee* Follow this link to see a before and after of the piece. I reworked her leg
the tiniest bit to make it have a better flow and then I added more to the background.

What do you think? Better? Is there anything else someone could suggest? :)

Well, must stop writing and start updating. It's quite a bit of uploading, link adding, etc. Then to make sure it's all
working.

I hope everyone has a niiiiice Friday. I think when my roomie girlfriend gets home I'm going to go shopping at
Whole Foods for my stew and soup stuff. They have the best organic meats and veggies. And not too outrageous,
either.

Ah, women and their "hunting and gathering." We're such a twisted chemically controlled species. *grin*