Day 11 of 183. 172 days to go.
Sorry i didn't write yesterday, reader. I spent the day doing my new hobby, painting. I bought stretched canvas and acrylic paints and decided to have a go.
Today I have added more to it, and as i look at it now, i am unsure whether to continue painting more onto it or whether to leave it as it is. Sometimes a painting can be overworked, can it not? Being new to the hobby, I don't really know what this means. Overworked. How can one tell whether something is overworked? Does that mean that it was already described by the paint, but overworking means that it has been stressed or emphasised too much in parts to be convincing, or too much to be subtle, or pleasing on the eye, etc.
If so, then i guess my paintings err on the side of being overworked.
I was just musing that concept, and i shall share will you my part-formed thoughts regarding applying it to the fat situation.
Do i not err on the side of too much where food is concerned, too? Would it take a person of great discipline to restrain from loading more paint onto the canvas, as it does with the fork to the mouth?
Might art critics see overworked paintings as vulgar, disgusting and repulsive, just as the twenty-something nightclubber sees obese people?
Why do some paint delicately and in a subdued manner, and others boldly and brightly? Same reason that some of us delicately nibble away politely and in a refined manner, and others gorge and mash and grind?
I've painted a still life today of handbag and shoes. My eyes are tired and i have a funny faint twitch in my leg and foot thats been periodically vibrating away for a couple of days. I think its sitting on a hard chair for hours, and trapping a nerve. I never did that when i was thin.
I'm off to watch Big Brother now. My goodness, yesterday, Grace really did disgrace herself. That girl must have been on her very best tightly controlled behaviour the whole time she had been in the house, because once she knew that her eviction was certain her awful, nasty, viscious behaviour came out in full force.
