knock off the spiderwebs

 I haven't picked up a paintbrush in about a year, at least, not for long.  This was a slapdash I did back then - never decided if I wanted to do anything else with it, and put it on top of the failed paintings stack.  But thus, I've been looking at it, albeit flat, for that past year, and it has grown on me in general that it had something to it.  When I painted it, I didn't even plan anything, just threw whatever colors I had down and then squinted trying to make some picture out of it.  

I started matching some of the colors today to put on the edges, as having it flat, I was also always looking at the unfinished edges.  Then I put a bit of the colors back through the painting, altering it a little here and there.  It's no worse for wear, maybe not any better, either.  But now my paints are a bit more organized again, less spiderwebs, the brushes and paint pans have been taken out, used and cleaned.  I might clean up the drawing table a little more - closed some containers and moved things around.

It is a temptation to say 'I might need more of that', and buy something.  It is also a temptation to look at the bottles of printing ink I have that are nearly 15 years old? and say throw them out... and then stick them back in another container.  Maybe they'll work if I get another idea and take out my paper and inks.  But who knows when I'll decide to work on it again.

 Working on Japanese.  In all of these years of working with Duolingo they never once did the 'we' or 'they' forms?  I started HeyJapan a few days ago and it already has me learning new words.  And it is making me trace more kanji.  Doing a little WaniKani. 

 

'Eye to Eye' - just sit down and start to sketch, and let the picture form itself to a point - this is the third or fourth though where I had sat down and tried to find my basic black drawing pencils (H, HB etc.) and could not find a one of them, and ended up drawing with something else.  There isn't any explanation for all of them to be missing from my drawing kit except that I gathered them up and put them in a 'safe place' - which is sort of why I don't clean up and organize that often, because it backfires and I can't find things that I usually leave in the open and then know where to find it.