I've been wearing the new glasses for nearly three weeks now. Progressive lenses...hmmm. Supposedly looking straight ahead into the distance outdoors, or down at a paper on my desk or somewhere in the middle for the computer screen on my desk is what these things are designed for. Yep...I get that and everything IS indeed clearer and less of a blur. The world is safer as I drive from Point A to Point B. The morning on-line newspapers make far more sense now, but man...it seems to have impacted my successes with painting from the model.
It used to be so easy to peer over the top of my cheap drugstore cheaters at the figure across the room, then look down at the watercolor block and record what I'd seen. It's just as easy to see, but the images that appear...I don't know. I hadn't been too happy with them.
Monday night's session was maybe, just perhaps, a turning point. If only after a day of school I had the energy left to spend a few hours in the studio. Soon...soon.
My quotation for today from Picasso:
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone".
So, thinking in those terms...maybe I can get myself on the stick more regularly. It certainly speaks to the amount of work that Picasso created in his lifetime.
It used to be so easy to peer over the top of my cheap drugstore cheaters at the figure across the room, then look down at the watercolor block and record what I'd seen. It's just as easy to see, but the images that appear...I don't know. I hadn't been too happy with them.
Monday night's session was maybe, just perhaps, a turning point. If only after a day of school I had the energy left to spend a few hours in the studio. Soon...soon.
My quotation for today from Picasso:
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone".
So, thinking in those terms...maybe I can get myself on the stick more regularly. It certainly speaks to the amount of work that Picasso created in his lifetime.
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