Art Sequitur

Okeedokee now!

Argh, so much distraction. If I could sit down and type out every project I want to begin RIGHT NOW I think I would fill up an entire page. I consider it a plus that I managed to work on my one "official" project for about fifteen minutes last night. Oy, is that not pathetic?

Okay. This blog is really not about me whining, though 2 out of 2 entries so far have included it. Boy, I'm not doing so well at this, am I?

Let me talk about my "official" project. I say that like it's some uber-secret ultra-creative prototype-dealie. It's not. I'm making a grown-up picture book out of fabric, similar in structure to this felt book I made for a swap on craftster.org. I wrote a silly little story and am going to include one line on every page, like a kid's book, only each page is going to be abstract and crazy and filled with my own particular flavor of fabric art.
It's even a collaborative project! Husband is writing music to go along with each page, because he likes playing around with his music programs. The piece he wrote for the cover is not bad. It's not uber-professional, given that he has had about a semester's worth of actual musical training, but in my opinion it captures the mood of what I was going for pretty well.

So in the end, we'll have a whole little cloth book and a CD of ambient music. I'm working on the second page of it now.

It's very exciting, I know.

I like big projects like this, though, where I work on them steadily for weeks and then have something to show for it. It's weird, actually, because my patience level is approximately that of a 2-year-old hyperactive child, but it makes the payoff even better. Except I usually am in despair over how my product does not match my vision, alas, alack, oh what a world! I guess that's par for the course in the World of Artists®.

I will end this with a non sequitur: I have to pee. TATA!!!