Saturday Art

'Next week I'll be working on the final finished drawing.'

That was the final sentence of my post from last week. 'Working' has consisted of this:



This is the roll of paper I bought on Thursday from Pearl Art Supplies. If I'm buying paper on Thursday and that's the extent of work I've completed on a project that should take hours and hours, and it's now Saturday of the same week, well, let's just say it's not done yet.

I could give you lots and lots of reasons why I was so busy that I couldn't do any more of it, but the real truth is that once a project has multiple steps, my anxiety about completeing it rises exponentially. Once I'm anxious about a project I need a lot of time between steps to reassure myself that this is worth doing and that I even know what I'm doing.

So instead of excuses (which I still gave you - see above), I give you this, a tour of my desk:




and the pencil tray:



After talking to my friend, Regina, last night about how I was having such a hard time getting started she asked me what I was using to complete the drawing. When I told her pencil, her eyes bugged out and she said, That will take you FOREVER in that size! Are you CRAZY?

I told her how I wasn't sure where I'd do the drawing because of its size and how I should keep from smudging it as I drew. She brought up the fallacy that Bigger is More Artful which seems to be the belief in art school and classes. So I thought about this and decided to give myself and break make it smaller.

Next week: smaller, more completed.