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How did you stop liking it?

I don't know. I just don't derive any pleasure from it anymore.

I dont think it helps that you've convinced yourself you cant draw anymore, so everytime you draw you've always got a negative attitude towards it.

Yeah I know, I'm very negative about alot of things lately, not just drawing.

Your'e just in a funk right now..it will all turn around, you'll see...I get like that sometimes, too...

yep... major funk

I hated drawing for a long time because I didn't want to make something that wasn't what I wanted it to be, so I didn't make anything at all. But now it's fun because I have a lot of old art supplies of all sorts and lots of paper, so it's less of a waste to play with them than it is to not use them at all. So I get paint, a bottle of ink, some brushes, a lot of water, and an unused sketchpad and just make whatever random thing on each page without much care for what it becomes. It eventually becomes something like a landscape painting though. It doesn't matter if the paper is too thin for that much water, or if acrylic and ink aren't normally mixed. The act of brushing dark black ink onto paper, mixed and overlaid with gold and silver acrylic, is in of itself enjoyable. It's not just the perfecting of a final product that can be enjoyed. Recently I got a can of black and a can of white house paint from the hardware store and I was thinking that I have this one big roll of canvas in my closet that's just been sitting in storage for years but maybe I can be like jackson pollock or something but instead of making a crazy spatter field of paint and calling it "a stroll in the park (while on drugs)" I'll be like a chinese artist and paint jagged mountains with waterfalls. Sometimes I make a really thick black line and I'm like "this line looks kind of tasty" and then I make it even thicker and darker. Also most of the time if I'm using watercolor I like to use a non-watercolor brush, like the princeton 6300 series of synthetic oil/acrylic brushes because pulling the stiffness of those bristles across the paper is a lot more enjoyable than some limp soft bristled brush. I think that mostly it's fun to see and to be the cause of something to change, like when you light a campfire and then you can see the fire burning though things and the wood turning black into coal and then it turns white a little later. So with art I think it's more fun to watch paper or canvas be covered in paint than to slowly sit there perfecting each detail.

I looked back at your old stuff a few minutes ago..last I looked, I knew you were talented, ...maybe go take a look for yourself if you haven't lately. Some wonderful art there. It might be inspiring to just watch it a few times. :)
Sometimes I get a dry spell, and I can't do anything to satisfy myself. It's frustrating...so when that happens I just go to paper or clay. I love to throw pots. You used to talk about the other things that you made. Maybe do something else creative till you feel like enjoying drawing again. ....what tanuki just wrote sounds fun. Recently I bought a cheap canvas and a cheap brush and I found it to be satisfying to drag that stiff brush across the canvas, too. It makes a great noise and sounds productive.
Major funks are not fun. I'm fighting one, too. Happy New Year, lori. :)

Go to an exhibit or art museum. That autta get your dander up!

thanks everyone, didn't mean to whine.... but hey... I'll draw anyway, they'll just be crappy crap

yours are never crappy crap

Heyyyy Lori!..:-D

:) hey there! I quit smoking at 1 yesterday, so far so good!

Congratulations!..stick with it..you'll feel better in the long run..:)

Come on now, you can make it, Lori.

She can do it..I commend anyone who can quit smoking.

When I was in my 20's and working for the phone company, there was this hot little thing in the office that offered herself to me if I could quit for 30 days.

and..?...how'd that work out? ..;-)

I respectfully declined the offer and then sold her a Volvo later that year.

When my friend was younger he got some sex for a packet of crisps (potato chips), I said if Id have known I'd have thrown in a can of coke aswell.

I was on break one day at work and I asked this guy if I could bum a smoke from him and he says '' I'll give you the whole pack if you let me smell that chair your'e sitting in as soon as u get up''..

well, I'm smokin again : / I got violently sick yesterday, and dizzy, and achey... and just didn't know if I should've gone cold turkey like I did

I was very fortunate to walk away unscathed today..I went to clean out the swimming pool filters and unwittingly disturbed a very large and viscious family of Hobo Spiders who had taken up residence..I am absolutely terrified of spiders and the biggest one I saw today was easily 2 inches long..looked like a friggin' crab...blugh!!


@Lori..maybe you should get some help quitting smoking and not try to go it alone.

yep I know... and I have seen some spiders in my bedroom lately that I'm not too happy about, time for a good cleanout!

Spiders are disgusting...

I would definitely have to agree

Uh.... excuse me..... my MOM IS A SPIDER! chuh!

Pfft!...well TOO BAD, SO SAD fo you SUCKA!!...

you might as well just sell your vagina.

I'd be happy to give mine away for some decent sleep.