Swimming in Quicksand

So far this week I have the feeling that every hour of work that I do actually sets me two hours behind. One problem solved begets two new problems and so forth, and then a whole new set of things gets plopped on my desk. The good part is that the work I have is pretty fun and yields a real feeling of accomplishment when it is finished, so I really can't complain, but it still seems like I am never going to be done with a couple of projects.

One of the problems I am now tackling is one of perspective, or how to violate the laws of perspective in an aesthetically pleasing manner. I was just in the studio playing with different tricks and I think I may have come closer to resolving it. Once again I owe thanks to recent works of Wayne Thiebaud for pointing the direction out. Now it should be just a matter of fine tuning and I will be able to mail off this sketch! Yippeeee! Once the sketch is approved, the actual painting will be fairly easy, as the nightmare has been in integrating the figure into a particularly difficult landscape (a river, a levee, and a field, with the figure standing on the river side of the levee. The trick is to lift the viewpoint up so that the field may be seen, but not so much as to force the rather strange downward view of the figure (although Chris Brown would have done it that way, and pulled it off, too), or to force the field into the foreground (that is the real trick, and I may have to achieve what I am trying to do by way of color, which rubs me slightly the wrong way)).

I also have a sneaking suspicion that my new editor at the paper is going to drop an unexpected review on me. Just a sneaking suspicion, but enough to make me nervous.

Anyway, blogging might be sparse, or it might be heavy. I don't know.