Love it! I know that frustration well. I've also been experimenting with some new crafts lately and have been alarmed by my ineptitude with many of them. Some things in life have come so easily to me, while others are a total struggle, and I never know which will be which until I'm up to my eyeballs in it ;-) The prints look great! Best of luck with them :-)
Ha! It's so easy to default to what we know. I do this when I paint with watercolors, trying to make them look like oils. It's like they don't make sense to me otherwise ;-) Lately, I have tried my hand at traditional archery, bladesmithing, jewelry-making, and minor construction with moderate success after some practice . . . but my biggest frustration is organic vegetable gardening. I can bring a neglected animal back from the dead, but give me a healthy plant, and I will surely kill it. I have a total brown thumb :-( I do have some amusing pictures of deformed carrots, though! Maybe I'll share them one day.
This reminds me too much of watching my two colleagues (slightly higher up on the corporate ladder than me) struggling with how to translate their ideas onto paper in an art class we took together a few years ago. And it wasn’t even a class that focused on technique, it was all about trying new and wild things.
Meanwhile, I once thought it was a good idea to learn the art of knitting with socks… because why content myself with just two needles if I can have five needles with pointy ends on either side! Just for the record, I still have both eyes…
So yay for your stubbornness, neuroplasticity and new art adventures - I hope you post a link when I can purchase your prints. 😘
Haha, I'm glad I'm not alone. I can't imagine knitting socks...I think the most I could ever do would be a scarf or an afghan - you know, rectangles. Someone would have to remove them from the needles for me.
I will post progress. The drypoint... if I can make that one work, is based on a 1968 slide of my grandmother. Yellow coat, white black and yellow dress, white hat, white with black polka-dot umbrella, big white cat-eyed glasses... The original image just cracks me up.
Because I can't control myself, I'm trying a collagraph and a drypoint on monotype of the marshes. Oy. Why do I do it... LOL!
The reason I like knitting socks is that it is only knit and no purl… and they are relatively quick to do. Not that I have knitted in a while because the day only has so many hours and writing is currently my thing. 🙈
Love it! I know that frustration well. I've also been experimenting with some new crafts lately and have been alarmed by my ineptitude with many of them. Some things in life have come so easily to me, while others are a total struggle, and I never know which will be which until I'm up to my eyeballs in it ;-) The prints look great! Best of luck with them :-)
It's so hard to start from scratch in a general category where we're used to competence. LOL!
On the monotypes, I need to STOP trying to make them paintings. It's silly since, if I wanted paintings, I could just - Paint. Heh.
I would love to hear about your new crafty endeavors :) whenever you're ready to divulge.
Ha! It's so easy to default to what we know. I do this when I paint with watercolors, trying to make them look like oils. It's like they don't make sense to me otherwise ;-) Lately, I have tried my hand at traditional archery, bladesmithing, jewelry-making, and minor construction with moderate success after some practice . . . but my biggest frustration is organic vegetable gardening. I can bring a neglected animal back from the dead, but give me a healthy plant, and I will surely kill it. I have a total brown thumb :-( I do have some amusing pictures of deformed carrots, though! Maybe I'll share them one day.
Sounds lime you need to write a YA Vampire novel next
Good idea! Anything where I could just make stuff up would be an improvement.
This reminds me too much of watching my two colleagues (slightly higher up on the corporate ladder than me) struggling with how to translate their ideas onto paper in an art class we took together a few years ago. And it wasn’t even a class that focused on technique, it was all about trying new and wild things.
Meanwhile, I once thought it was a good idea to learn the art of knitting with socks… because why content myself with just two needles if I can have five needles with pointy ends on either side! Just for the record, I still have both eyes…
So yay for your stubbornness, neuroplasticity and new art adventures - I hope you post a link when I can purchase your prints. 😘
Haha, I'm glad I'm not alone. I can't imagine knitting socks...I think the most I could ever do would be a scarf or an afghan - you know, rectangles. Someone would have to remove them from the needles for me.
I will post progress. The drypoint... if I can make that one work, is based on a 1968 slide of my grandmother. Yellow coat, white black and yellow dress, white hat, white with black polka-dot umbrella, big white cat-eyed glasses... The original image just cracks me up.
Because I can't control myself, I'm trying a collagraph and a drypoint on monotype of the marshes. Oy. Why do I do it... LOL!
The reason I like knitting socks is that it is only knit and no purl… and they are relatively quick to do. Not that I have knitted in a while because the day only has so many hours and writing is currently my thing. 🙈
At least you will have warm feet while hunched over the writing!