I broke it

There I was, clicking away, changing fonts and styles and effects like there was no tomorrow, when all of a sudden, this cool program, that I fell in love with not three days ago, up and quit on me. And quit so hard that it didn’t even offer to restart itself. It’s like it said, “You know what? I don’t even want to play with you anymore. You are completely ridiculous in your approach to this project and I’m just sick of it and sick of you and you can just take a flying leap. I quit.”

Normally, this kind of attitude from a piece of software would make me very, very angry. But that was the old me, who wasn’t painting with pastels every day. The new me just shrugged and did something else for a while. Secretly, I’m hoping that if enough time goes by, my program will have forgotten all about how I was treating it earlier and will behave itself when I fire it up again.

I know. I’m mad. But it’s a mad, mad world out there and I find it’s best to blend in.

image of a pastel of a blue parakeet

5×7″ pastel, bird, parakeet. Click to bid.

Here’s a practice parakeet, blue and white on a perch, no blending.x

About Marie Marfia

Once upon a time I went to a belly dancing class and promptly fell in love with my instructor and her students. As a result, I'm on a mission to complete 100 portraits of belly dancers using soft pastels. I am hoping that by the end of this project I'll have gained some mastery of pastels and of myself. Feel free to stop by and share my journey as I learn about pastels, art and the life of a daily painter.
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2 Responses to I broke it

  1. I love the bird! And I envy your patience with technology. I would benefit, I think, from pastels.

  2. marfia9 says:

    Aww what a tweet picture. Oh, and on the program…way to go.

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