Getting back in the rhythm
It's hard for me to believe that three daze after the last festival ended, I'm still tired, and definitely not in creative gear. Maybe that's the price one pays for being 54 - the recovery time is much greater than one was used to.
I eased myself back into work mode today by doing some tracing onto film from photographs, in preparation for two separate jobs that will need good likenesses drawn. In one, I proceeded to a cut and paste mock up, and with the other will filnd out more tomorrow at a meeting with the client. This type of work is laborious, but taxes no brain cels, and that's good because right now I don't feel like I have any left over to tax (are they taxing those too now? And what about the syntax?).
Lastly, in prepartion for a presentatio I'll be giving tomorrow to my networking group, I have matted some pictures to make them more presentable - one was an abstract that required just a bit more work, the other that remake of "Clarient-itus" that was done lovingly over the last few weeks. I will do a demonstraiton tomorrow in my ten minutes, in the hopes of showoing the people in my networking group the level of craft, thought, and attention to detail I put into even my simplest pictures. I don't know if it will work, as the group has not been providing me with many good leads for the last 4 months or so, making it tougher for me to go and pay the dues, but I persist just the same. Last year, I got some great jobs from this group. We keep trying.
I also did some follow up emailing to new contacts from the Monterey Jazz Festival. So, I suppose the point is that, even when pooped, one can find a few constructive tasks to do that will keep one's little business percolating along. Maybe by tomorrow I'll be ready and able to do the more creative sketches to generate new ideas and new paying gigs.
If I sound less than inspired, it's due to fatigue, but it will pass and I'll be doing some fine art very soon. In the mean time, I can always clean up my studio.
I eased myself back into work mode today by doing some tracing onto film from photographs, in preparation for two separate jobs that will need good likenesses drawn. In one, I proceeded to a cut and paste mock up, and with the other will filnd out more tomorrow at a meeting with the client. This type of work is laborious, but taxes no brain cels, and that's good because right now I don't feel like I have any left over to tax (are they taxing those too now? And what about the syntax?).
Lastly, in prepartion for a presentatio I'll be giving tomorrow to my networking group, I have matted some pictures to make them more presentable - one was an abstract that required just a bit more work, the other that remake of "Clarient-itus" that was done lovingly over the last few weeks. I will do a demonstraiton tomorrow in my ten minutes, in the hopes of showoing the people in my networking group the level of craft, thought, and attention to detail I put into even my simplest pictures. I don't know if it will work, as the group has not been providing me with many good leads for the last 4 months or so, making it tougher for me to go and pay the dues, but I persist just the same. Last year, I got some great jobs from this group. We keep trying.
I also did some follow up emailing to new contacts from the Monterey Jazz Festival. So, I suppose the point is that, even when pooped, one can find a few constructive tasks to do that will keep one's little business percolating along. Maybe by tomorrow I'll be ready and able to do the more creative sketches to generate new ideas and new paying gigs.
If I sound less than inspired, it's due to fatigue, but it will pass and I'll be doing some fine art very soon. In the mean time, I can always clean up my studio.
posted by Rich Sigberman at
8:10 PM
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