Priming the Behemoth, Ghosts and Scary Dreams
Added 2023-12-14 00:51:07 +0000 UTCThis will be the biggest painting I've started in about five years.
I'm excited and also a little intimidated. but the intimidation factor is going down more and more as I prep the canvas and do tiny little thumbnail sketches of what I want to paint.
I've also been looking at some beautiful frames for it. Both to help me think about the colors I should use and to get me excited about the finished painting.
Looking at the frames reminds me of ROBERT RODRIGUEZ' book REBEL WITHOUT A CREW. In the book he talks about how after he finished shooting his film, before he started editing it, he edited a trailer of the film to psych himself up.
That's kind of what I'm doing with the looking at frames.
I have a little over a month to finish this. I think I can do it.
Happy December 13th everybody
Today I woke up and joined the YouTube premiere of this week's episode of the Dark Art Society podcast with Mark Shostrom. Mark told some wild ghost stories. One of them was about the Queen Mary.
The Queen Mary is an old luxury Ocean Liner ship kind of like the Titanic was.
Mark's story reminded me about when I was a kid and went on a ghost tour on the Queen Mary. I had nightmares about a drowning girl for about a year afterwards.
Later in the interview Chet told a story about this thing that used to haunt his dreams. He said that the thing stopped when a voice in his dream said "It can only scare you, it can't hurt you."
And I remember that's exactly how my nightmares about the drowning girl stopped. A voice like that said more or less the same thing.
Watching this podcast first thing in the morning like this really got my day off to a good start. There were like 15 other artists tuning in to watch the premiere live on YouTube. So there was that sense of sharing the moment with like 15 other artists and that just made me want to make art.
So I did.
