It’s been a very long time since I’ve even witten on any of my blogs. A mixture of circumstances have lead to this. At work, I have taken on the baking position for a temporary time. It’s about 40-45 hours per week so not very much time to work on sculptures. Sadly, whenever I take on baking, my hands always get very dry and it makes sculpting very difficult.

Regardless, I really want to get back to sculpting, although this heat might make it more difficult. Is it hot where you are? It’s hit here. Really the biggest thing keeping me from sculpting is me. Mentally, I’ve been in a negative place, and perhaps it’s a good time to use my sculpting to let out some of the thoughts. Art is about the full spectrum of emotions.

So hopefully I’ll get some sculpting in this week, but honestly, I’m just not sure.

Life has been very depressing with changes and some of my friends going through hard times.  I don’t wish to bring you down with sad work, unless that’s what you’re into.  Might wind up sharing some of my thoughts in my sculpture tomorrow.  

Couldn’t bring myself to sculpting today, my apologies.  I will sculpt tomorrow regardless of how I feel.  You’ll defintely know by then whether things are getting better.

Sometimes when you dedicate yourself to art, the world falls apart without you realising.  It’s a definite character flaw that I have to work on, and I am constantly trying to care about others more. 

Don’t forget about the world outside of your own head.

Apologies mean nothing, make a change in your life, get back to doing what you do best.

I’m saddened today that my dad had to go to the hospital.  He got injured while he was serving at the local prison (he’s a chaplain), and so it’s been a bit stressful around here.  He seems to be doing well, but I really was drained after visiting him at the hospital.

The strange thing was that at the same time that he fell and hit his head, I developed a strong headache, and later on experienced dizziness.  A few of my friends say I’m really conscious of things around me, so I don’t know if that had something to do with it.  I hope he’s feeling better…he’s supposed to come home tomorrow.

In any sense, I’ll be taking a couple days off to re-coop my mind.  It takes a tole on your head.  The sculpture I was working on today…I don’t see myself finishing.  I’ll probably scrap it.

My brother was mentioning to me the other day how all of my videos were loaded with super nice, positive comments.  Pretty much everywhere you go - YouTube, Tumblr, Twitter, etc - it’s all positive.  There isn’t a single thumbs-down on my clay work of 2012 (aside from one of my friends that did it because I told him to).  So, how the heck did that ever happen?  How did I ever get such a nice following?

I’m not exactly sure to be honest, but I believe it’s because I’ve ignored the trolls and made good relationships with all the viewers that I possibly could.  In any sense, I just wanted to mention how happy it makes me to hear from you guys! 

It’s not all been positive though, there was something like 30 people that unsubscribed on YouTube, but as I said before, they were probably all the ones that were negative.  Who cares, because 70 people that were positive started following 365 Days of Sculpture.

Accentuate the positive :)

It’s always good for an artist to have fun, but it’s even more important for an artist to push the envelope.  For today I will be doing a really fun, fairly straight-forward sculpture that focuses more on details and balance.  

Tomorrow on the other hand will be about really testing myself.  I’m going to sculpt an upside-down character (it’s not a sloth, although I should do one of those!) and it’s going to involve a whole new method of sculpting!  It’s going to be a really difficult but really fun sculpt, I just know it.  It’s going to make you laugh as well.  

Practically speaking, I just love making people laugh and hearing them laugh right in front of me as I show them a picture is always priceless.  However, on occasions, I enjoy being serious.