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babydollhead

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7. When I can't do my art,

Reply to Javaman (Original post)

Fri Oct 26, 2012, 10:36 PM

Oct 2012

I doodle. I doodle with thin black sharpies on index cards. sometimes I lay in bed at night and think of colors, patterns, how it would feel to go into a piece of art. Color and light are my first language, english is my second.
If you want to do art, don't let anything stop you.

I decided to commit to being an artist and its what i do everyday. I have no health insurance. I have to create work for myself, toot my own horn, fund raise, justify what looks like i am lallygagging away the day

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I sit in my cubicle and I want to draw... [View all] Javaman Sep 2012 OP

Yep. rrneck Sep 2012 #1

I hear ya! Shadowflash Sep 2012 #2

I look at single payer health care as freedom. Javaman Sep 2012 #3

I'm sure you're right Shadowflash Sep 2012 #4

Draw whenever you can Javaman! Steerpike Sep 2012 #5

I just retired early from my cubicle job -- it was soul-sucking, too. For the past 20 years I have Nay Oct 2012 #6

When I can't do my art, babydollhead Oct 2012 #7