I feel excited to start my new interest in Festivals. I've been gearing up for it for quite a while, but now it's time to Jump In ~ even though I could keep doing more and more planning. This is it. My first Festival is coming up in just a couple of days. On July 31, 2024. Oh Boy! It's a whirlwind over here. I'm planning for the Festivals to be an outlet where I have more power and time to encourage people to accept all their unique features as Beautiful ~ including big noses and big ears, uneven smiles and unibrows ~ as well as the little noses and little ears, Ushaped smiles and groomed eyebrows that many people request at Parties.

I want to break through societal nonsense, and make the world a better place. For Everyone. I want to encourage people to appreciate their Own beauty as well as to appreciate the beauty of Other people ( who have Different attributes than they have).

We are All Alive

Time Off. Seeing the world. I am Not a photographer, but I feel like I can't take bad photos at Sunset at the Beach.

I love this one. Just a quick shot while I was looking at The Magnificent Huge Ocean. And I feel thrilled at how Small the ocean ended up looking in the photo. It's like instructions for how to make little of our problems:

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Subtle movement: 14

Whoa: 13

Distance: 15

Solid Marshmallow 12

Lace Edged Curl 11

I drew these 2 Caricatures using the Same Style for each. They are of the Same Person

This first (and second) Fashion Sketch is No Good. According to My feeling. The Artist's feeling. But looking at it now ~ as I am posting it here on the Party Entertainment Ideas Inc website ~ it's obvously good enough. It would get a good reception if I drew it inside the Event. But I feel glad that I got it out of my system. Before going in to the Event.

I'm doing these Warm-Ups before going into the Event. Based on random photographs that I found online. So I can get into THE ZONE before going in to the Party.

Success! The 4th picture is Aces. Spot on. And then I tried to speed it up, and the 5th drawing was drawn more simply. It still holds up fine. I feel pleased with Both the 4th and the 5th drawings here. Of the same short pink dress.

To make sure I 'got' it, I then drew a different dress. It came out good.... good enough to delight a Party Guest.... but I felt like it could be better. So I drew it again. Very pleased. I got right into it.

Goodbye rationality. I am in the Zone. No way to explain it. No way to explain how I go from 'drawing well' to 'being an Artist'. But I do that. I dance with the drawing as it develops.

and once I'm there.... once I've caught onto it.... I don't want to stop. I want to draw more and more. This time, I drew 2 men who were dressed similarly, but the clothes fit them so differently that they became different Fashions.

Time's up. It's time to go in to the Party now. I feel so happy to do so. I can't wait to draw people Live.

I do hope my Client already arranged for a good spot for me to Set Up. I do hope the Venue already gave me the Chairs that I requested for the FASHION SKETCH activity. I do hope the Guests are already psyched for the FASHION SKETCH Entertainment. If I have to start negotiating, requesting chairs, politely waiting, encouraging the first guests into party spirit..... I'll lose the edge that I just developed.

It will be faster to get Back into the zone ~ because I just did these Warm Ups, but it's better if I can just hang on to it. A deeper experience. En-vel'oped.