Cutting ties...

[bladespark]

Usually, when you talk about moving and cutting ties, you mean the ties to those you'll leave behind. But really most of my friends live elsewhere anyhow, and the few locals I can happily keep in touch with on line, though I'll miss being able to hang out with Keith and Realis.

But no, the tie cutting I'm referring to is the ties to my old art. I just now threw most of it out. It was probably one of the hardest things I've ever done. But it was old and bad. I'll never be able to sell any of it. I'd never want to hang it on my wall. I care about it only because I made it, and I've kept most of it this long solely because it's easy enough to toss paper and a few canvasses in a giant folder and slide it under the bed. Only now it's grown to the point where I can't. There was too much of it, and some of it just had to go. I kept a couple of sentimental ones, (the very first firecat picture ever, the very first portrait of SPark,) because heck, even some bad art is worth keeping. And I kept a careful selection of the very best of it, mostly pretty recent stuff, though there are a few older pieces in there, even one or two of my high school pictures. And I'm keeping a lot of the so-so stuff that's small, because I can just shove it in a box, and if I threw it all out, I'd cry, or something. But the stack is now down to manageable proportions.

But boy was that hard to do. *cries* My beautiful pictures, all gone!

Comments

[lightgreendryad.livejournal.com]

One of these days, Steph, you'll post something I absolutely love, so much that I'll pay whatever shipping necessary if you live in Washington by the time it happens. I can feel it building; the stuff I see is so close to what I'm looking for (which is really definable, and thus not very helpful). I just have to keep looking and waiting.

[lightgreendryad.livejournal.com]

Oops. Mentally move that to the entry after this one.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

He he he. That's okay. Have you been through my art gallery? It's not anywhere near complete, but a good chunk of my work is there.

[lightgreendryad.livejournal.com]

Huh. I really like some of that stuff in your dragon gallery. I've now got a vision of a commission I might ask of you. Not now, considering you're in the final stages of moving, and it'd be a large drawing to frame on the wall, but eventually... Shall I bounce it off you?

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Bounce away. Though I'm not so much into art commissions these days, so there's no guarantees anything would come of it. But it can't hurt to discuss it.

[lightgreendryad.livejournal.com]

shrug. Yeah, I totally understand where you're coming from. It'd be extremely easy for someone to be upset. I imagine something akin to that ying-yang sign you've got in your gallery. I think of a representation of my husband and I; I always consider myself as represented by light green, silver, and light orange; Just'In, I find, is represented by a grey-green, a grey-blue, darker tones of burnt-sienna and soil brown... Very masculine, light colors. I imagine two dragons intertwined in an upward flight, in a mating ritual if you may, but not nearly as graphic because I'd like it to hang on my wall, but rather representational.

Because I have always seen Just'In with turtle-like qualities, I really do like that second drawing you've got. The shape of the dragon is masculine, with big feet and a slightly turtle-like face; change the coloring so it has more grey and is more masculine and that would be Just'In. As for me, I really like the tail you've given the sixth dragon in the set and the wings of the seventh dragon of the second page. I see myself to have that pointed snout of the fifth dragon on the second page (it seems very cat-like, to me-- don't know why) but no horns or spikes. Definitely claws, considering I have them in real life, but short and white...

I'm sure I could conjure more details if I wanted, but that's just the general idea. What do you think?

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

I think it's definitely possible. Why don't you drop me a line again when I'm moved in about it?

[lightgreendryad.livejournal.com]

Shrug. Sure.

[kainhighwind-dr.livejournal.com]

Ouch... that's painful. At least you did a judicious thinning, rather than a complete purge. It's always good to keep the sentimental pieces, and keep a record of how far you've come and what your overall conceptual technique has always been with your art.

I did a purge once with a pile of art that I produced with my ex (well, most of it was mine, the rest was 'abandoned' to me). It didn't hurt too much as I was trying to get over the loss of someone I had thought was a partner who was also a good friend (but who quite honestly turned out to be not much of either). My artistic style was severely muddied and lessened by adopting my partner's technique (under the assumption that, as they insisted, their work was much better than mine). It actually felt good in that instance, even though all the hours I had spent on it were then lost. I hated looking at those pieces, so it was right to let them go.

I recycled it all in one huge bag, but in retrospect, I really ought to have had a burning. >;)

[realis-kat.livejournal.com]

I am sure we'll room together for FC hun, i'll miss you to. One of the people i trust... but we have IMs and Drama journal.

Blessed be and good luck