March 15, 2004 :: 12:50 a.m.
oil sticks can bite me
I have spent the last two hours painting shoes with oil sticks. It is inarguably the worst thing I have ever, ever put down on paper in my life. This is the most unpleasant medium I've worked with. I would seriously rather serve as a human inkwell and paint pictures with my blood than use these things ever again. But guess what? We'll be using them ALL SEMESTER!
I can't even make an effort to be sarcastic about it. It just sucks too much.
If satan came to me right now and offered to imbue me with incredible talent with paint sticks in exchange for my firstborn child, I would totally say yes. Of course, I don't plan to have a firstborn child, so... sorry, guy. But you get the idea. I suck with these, so my homework sucks. My homework has to be hung up in front of the entire class and critiqued, so other people with actually SEE the suck. And then they'll think to themselves, "Man, she really has no talent at all. It's sad. But funny. HAHAHAH!" And they'll point and laugh and belittle me for being a poseur/hack and impersonating an artist.
See? They make me paranoid, too. They are surely the devil's tool.
I think it must say something about me personally that even when I'm really irritated and kneeling somewhat painfully in front of my computer to type this (my chair is holding the shoe still-life), I still stop to look up words and make sure I'm spelling everything correctly. That just seems... quirky.
edited 1:56 a.m. Even more evidence that I'm not properly together in the head: It did not occur to me, when I did this just a few minutes ago, that I should probably not stick my fingers in my mouth and/or rub my eyes when my hands are covered in what is essentially oil paint. Now I think I have little icky bits of the "protective seal" on my tongue. BLECH.
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