::SIGH::

So you know my fabulous plan - the one wherein I was going to take you through the process of making my piece over the course of two or possibly three weeks? The piece that I have been working on feverishly to meet today's deadline (and which is still not done but will have to do?) You know, THAT plan?


Well, after never having dropped my or any other laptop in all my years of exposure to laptops, I dropped mine TWICE in 24 hours and now it's deader than a door nail. Won't even turn on! I'm using my old one so that's fine (although it took nearly 72 hours to update!!!); but of course, six weeks of process photos are gone.

SO.  New plan is - I'll show you some cropped shots of the finished piece today and through next week - and the finished piece NEXT Friday and I'll talk to you a bit about the process as I go along.

New plan... do you hear that laughing in the background, or is that just me?

;)



Linking with Nina-Marie for "Off The Wall Fridays". :)

 I'll be talking with Mark Lipinski for a few minutes today at 3:20 p.m. EST.





If  you`d like to listen in: here`s a link to his show!

After I got over the initial excitement of my painted background, I was struck with a sudden infusion of self doubt.  Could I do this, would I be able to make what I needed to, was I capable of it, was my vision even the right one?



After struggling with that for about 12 hours, I decided to make a list of what needed to be done and tackle it in little bits.

This week and next, I'm taking you through the construction of a piece that took, in actuality, just over six weeks.  At the time of my writing this, I believe I have another 20 to 30 hours to put in, and then it will be done - but at the present time, it is looking AWESOME (even if I do say so myself) and I couldn't be more pleased.

It's my first piece of 2013, it's my first piece in fulfillment of my vision of the kind of work I've decided to do, and it looks (even unfinished) EXACTLY the way I imagined it.

So, are you ready?!  Let's go! More after the jump...

As you can see, there have been some changes since Wednesday - check 'em out, after the jump!