jaeleslie

Started the day by finishing a Nancy Springer book, and then read another, Plumage, straight through. It was great fun, and another thing, it was the proper length for a novel. I find a great many books don't really need to be more than 300 pages long. It is possible that I have gotten over-tired, and sitting around reading my library books is a good thing. (I did have a workout Monday, after a whole week off.)

Then I finished most of the bookkeeping from the art fair, which was much easier than usual because I actually had half of the desk next to the computers cleared off to spread out my work papers. However it was more complicated than usual.

It was really hard to get to my drawing table. "Just fifteen minutes" I said to myself. Then once I got going it was fun and two hours later it was done. I was using my favorite quarter-inch automatic pen with sumi ink and making very large letters. Tried doing the same thing with a couple of smaller pens but one was old and too bendy (should I throw it out???) and then another was either too wet or too dry and then another nib had the same problem with the ink feeding and also had no reservoir, so instead of struggling along with those any further I went back to the favorite automatic pen, and did the whole project on two sheets of paper instead of one. And then it was easier to just finish all the smaller lettering too. I have to cut and paste a bit anyway and reduce it all quite a lot at Kinko's tomorrow to make it fit in Chunga.

The first try yesterday, sort of a warm-up, I put in the sink while it was still wet and rinsed to make swirly sumi marbling patterns among the letters which improved all the mistakes quite a bit. It's too big to go on the scanner tho.

Edit: see detail at http://www.fotolog.net/maryread/