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.

New High School Graduates are so much fun to draw. I feel an open energy from them ~ excied with themselves and their plans ~ barely understanding what their futures might be.

And the relief that comes out of them when they see their funny Caricatures. Someone else who might understand how they're feeling. An aaaaaah moment for them. Peace

Party Life. So exciting. So much fun. I usually do that several times per week.

Mixing things up a bit. To do something different. I volunteered at LINPI. That's Long Island Native Plant Initiative. I did a little Gardening there. It was easy. And it felt satisfying to see the finished Flats that I made for them.

The Long Island Plant Initiative focuses on growing Only the plants that are native to Long Island. It's very interesting to see the differences between LINPI and my own Garden. Things like a completely different type of mint. Did you know that the types of mints that originated on Long Island have short thin leaves? So different than the invasive species of standard leaf-shaped leaves that grow all over the place.

I just can't stop