So, yes. I still live. Let's play catch up time!
I am now married to
Sehshomaryu.
I have a lovely little daughter named Emilia and she is one year old.
I have a full time (plus) job working for this state's transit agency.
I have exactly one hour a day to myself.
I feel my age looking through old postings on my page and the deviations in my gallery. I've come a long way as a person, but not as far as I would like as an artist. Art has taken a backseat to life, but that urge to be creative is always there. As I explained to my husband, feeling like I need to create something and not having the time to is like needing to sneeze but you can't. I find other outlets, though. I try to be a good wife and mother and cook, so I find ways to be creative in the kitchen (it works out sometimes - for those times that it doesn't, I have frozen pizzas at the ready). I've come to appreciate the culinary arts as, well, art. If I think of it, I may post some of those creations up here (tofu lasagna, anyone?).
I also find creative ways to piss off my coworkers, but that might not count. >.>
Still, visual artistry (drawing, painting, digital-ing) is still my first creative love. Now that my daughter is a little older and life is going more smoothly, I have been able to focus on art a little bit more. I take a few moments here and there at work to sketch out ideas that float around in my head. I have mountains of these little sketches on notepads, post-its, and the back of printed e-mails I no longer need, but I've yet to really finish anything. I can't force myself to, so I've made a bargain: I'm going to sketch when I can until I feel comfortable with the results again. I am very rusty, I hate to say. Much like my Spanish, I haven't flexed my artistic muscles in quite some time, and the works I create show it. Also like my Spanish, I am brushing up on it again. Also like my ASL, I'm picking up new things and trying out new techniques (don't ask me how language got involved in this xD).
I always was ambitious. I'm going to get this art thing down. Scratch that itch. All those other cheesy cliches.
With that, I'm going to go stare at a blank screen and make it work.
OUT.
K.