Hands for Breakfast

I slept terrible! I tossed and turned and had leg cramps. I wanted to sleep in but my dog was whining and the other dog kept laying on my face. Too many forces working against me having a good rest. Then to top it off I had to go to the bathroom…so fine I got up. I made up a pot of coffee and came to my desk.

I’m not feeling very well this day so far. So it seemed a natural decision to practice my hand making skills. I’ve got my pictures pulled up, my hands out, my Second Life pulled up and I’ve already laid out some fingers. They are some fine looking fingers, now I am worried the hand is going to fall apart around the palm area, I guess we’ll see. Once I finish this hand this morning I think I will “pose” it in various “poses” and take pictures of it. I’ll probably drop it in a sandbox or two. I like when people send messages that they are enjoying looking at something I have created.

Hands are HARD, why are hands so hard? I don’t know but they are and they are important. There are so many ways we express ourselves with our hands that it’s important for me to be able to use them effectively in a sculpture. I do okay. Sometimes I don’t even detail out a hand. Is it important to detail out a hand everytime? I guess the answer is no but I’d like to do it more by choice than the fear of making some crappy hand that everyone will point and laugh at.

Maybe this afternoon I will work on faces or feet. For me I like to practice these things, a good friend once told me once you make something seven times you are pretty likely to do it well by that seventh time. Seven times isn’t too much to do when you want to do something well. I’d do it a hundred times if I knew I’d be doing it better at the end. I feel like my study in hands might require that hundred times of doing it to get a good hand…I won’t give up.

I was so exhausted last night. Sometimes I just hit a wall and then down I go. I can’t keep open my eyes even. I think because I drive so full force at most everything I do that eventually I exhaust myself, then again it might have been that beer I had earlier. I had really high hopes for this beer and I was terribly dissapointed in it.

It’s been so hot here lately and I don’t normally drink adult beverages but lately I’ve been craving a couple things and one is beer. Often I forget that I want a beer when I am out and about but yesterday I remembered and stopped in to the store to get some beer. There are so many choices in beer, so many wonderful packages. I couldn’t decide to I went with a popular name brand “Corona” and I got light so I wasn’t being wasteful about calories. I barely finished one and then I was bored with it. I wasn’t taken in by the flavor of this beer at all. I think I just picked a bad one, not that the beer was spoiled in some way it just wasn’t what I was in the mood for. In hindsight I wish I had went with a beer with a fancy label or such then I could of at least enjoyed the art on the label.

Normally in the evening I like a cup of cocoa. I think I might just stick with that. I’m also having cravings for other drinks but they will require a trip to the liquor store and that is a bigger commitment than I am willing to make to an alcoholic beverage at this point. I’d like a nice dirty martini with fat olives.