Brilliant Idea
So it occurred to me that, since I'm in Paris anyway...
... And since I'm not a fan of lunching with my colleagues around the kitchen round table because I'm a horrible ol' codger and them chickens make lots of needless clucking and scratching noises... as if there were foxes in the roost rather than business people....
... And since I'm close to some "Paris-y" things... parks, the Grand Palais, the Seine river....
... That maybe I should stop complaining (in my head because the complainer in my head? she's a nasty ol' beeyatch) about never getting any painting done and actually use my lunch hour productively to do watercolour studies.
Yeah.
Today I was to implement my brilliant and diabolical plan for the "world watercolour takeover from the French capital".
I got the drawing done, but people were looking at me quizzically (OOOHHHH!!! ARTISTE!!! LESSEE!) and I got sort of self-conscious and packed things up before doing the watercolour part... and then... because I was still on lunch, I thought I would do the painting part in the office when... people started looking at me funny and I got self-conscious.
Dammit.
Give me a couple of days and I'll get used to ignoring people. This is one of the reasons why I'm not crazy about on-site drawing.
But world watercolour conquest...
Sounds tasty, don' it?
5 Elucidation(s):
I've been thinking about using my lunch hour(s) to go jogging: I've been thinking about this for about 5 years now.
I know what you mean... I think a lot of people write in cafes because they like people coming up and asking "what are you working on?" But I hate that sort of thing -- I'm much more comfortable cloistered up in my apartment.
I don't like anyone to see my work til it's done...then I expect applause and money thrown at me. I turn my easel away from the studio door, just in case...so no one can see it...but then I have been posting in progress pictures lately to try to get over it...and I may even try to make myself go outside in front of people and paint...BAH! I don't know about that one, I am still working on it. :)
I couldn't do it.. the art thing outdoors in Paris. It was like I was part of the tourist attraction and I felt so self-conscious. Even when I was in Montparnasse cemetary, people would constantly be asking me what I was up to...
I have enough problems bringing myself to draw on my own at home -- I couldn't even IMAGINE trying to do it in public... The only experience I have with this was when I took an architecture class while studying abroad and had to draw the facades of various churches and monuments around Paris -- I can still remember almost every one: St. Germain-des-Près and the Arc du Caroussel du Louvre are etched in my brain. I also drew one of the facades of the Musée Carnavalet... But people were always curious... Human nature, I guess! You'll prolly get used to it though, Jenn, 'cause it may end up being a form of motivation in the end!
(Speaking of which, would you believe that I actually LOST those architecture drawings somewhere along the road? What an idiot!)
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