January One

Didn't go to bed until 4am last night, saw some of the neighborhood fireworks, watched a bunch of Family Guy and Bridget Jones a couple more times. Played a bunch with the new camera, rediscovered the focus ring on the lens (duh).

Woke up around noon today, lazed around and caught up on Instagram new year wishes. Ate the dregs of what food I have had since before the holidays for breakfast. I really need to clean out the fridge and go food shopping. May do the cook book thing. I spent the day putzing around the house, taking down the Christmas tree, vacuuming and rearranging my plant corner and putting up my gallery wall. Love the wall with all the art on it, makes my space come together a bit more.

I have no empty wall space... does that make my home look eclectic artist chic or crazy hoarder lady? Either way, it feels really good to have all the art up in an organized manner. I should get a bunch of cheap frames and paint them all gold to frame all my prints in a wall collection. No, what I really need to do is build a coherent shelving unit that reaches the ceiling, more storage for my books, make it look more like a permanent residence instead of the college crash pad. Make it into a true Bachelor Girl studio. I need to have the art friends I still have over, and get them bringing friends. I want to try to get an old school salon going, like Paris in the 1900's. Artists and bohemians mingling and feeding off each other's energies.

I have been reading a Tumblr of great female artists and thinkers of the 1900's and the decade or two after. Many of them were lesbian or bisexual, having many affairs and drifting between muses and other relationships. Made me think of college when my boyfriend and I would close ourselves up in my bedroom for a weekend, me lounging around and reading, him drawing me in different poses and garbs. We would watch movies and research our favorite artists to get pose ideas. I want someone to do that with, paint them, photograph them, write about them, make love and art with them. Maybe find one of each sex, then I can have both sides of my being stimulated and inspired. I love drawing women, I find their figure so much more lush and exciting than mens' to draw. But men are loads of fun to touch ;). I also want to get back into modelling, even hosting nights here? I don't have much room tho...

I reeeeeeeeaalllly don't want to go back to work. I wish I could make a living writing and painting and making beautiful things. Only the lucky few get to do that for a job.

Well, post for models or mutual artists is up on one of my sites, we'll see if I get any nibbles.

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