Resting Woman With Puppy Slippers; A Self-Portrait

Painting with my computer has become a way of life for me. I feel incomplete unless I have worked on some art during the day. It is my job, my artists' job. I love this medium because I am finding it sort of easy to learn. I need 'easy'. It allows me to create without twisting my brain around too much. Here's my dilemna. Artists supposedly 'draw' on the right side of the brain. The dumb side, which cannot add 2 and 2, and come up with 4.

I type atrociously and spell check for Blogger does Not work for Macs, which leaves me up the creek.

I need good left brain skills to balance my check book, pay my bills, remember where my car is, etc. But my checkbook hasn't balanced in years. My car is in the garage, but the opener is quite broken, and so some leverage is required to open that heavy door. We cannot afford to have the electician come here to fix the thing, nor the water, nor the bunch of little electric problems in the house. One thing I will do for sure is get my sunglasses. No UV danger for me.

But I already had to buy two pair of glasses, one for seeing the world and one for seeing the computer. How is that? It is really excellent, to tell the truth, for the first time in my life I feel like I actually saw the monitor.

In case you are sick of reading the wanderings of my mind - figuring out the eye glasses issue, and how it relates to my art, imagine how long I have been thinking about it???!!! It has been hell, believe me. Can't forget about that UV protection, or getting squinty lines all over my face....

Hey, my next self-portrait must be wearing glasses...