And there went Saturday
Oct. 15th, 2011 05:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gracedpalmerThis morning did not go as planned. I woke up early and went to the farmer's market with samadi, as expected, then headed down to Kenosha. Where they had cancelled the talk I was expecting to attend (argh), and were having some demos, but not by anyone whose techiques I felt compelled to steal.
They do still have the gallery show up, however, and that is lovely. Medium-sized pieces from a lot of "name" illustrators, hung so you can get your nose nice and close to them (don't breathe on them, though!). There's a good selection of mediums, though it's mostly classical-style illustration. Absolutely worth a trip if you're in southern Wisconsin/northern Illinois before November 13. I got a good, close look at a John Jude Palencar, some of Donato's drawings and some of Janny Wurtz's paintings, all of which are invaluable to me. I also got to look at innumerable lovely slick oil paintings that I will absolutely never be able to reproduce. They're gorgeous - like brightly colored glass. Take-away lessons include "paint more" and "holy gods, work bigger." Wurtz had a couple paintings in there as small as I usually work, but they were far simpler.
We looked around at the gallery show, and at the other exhibits, since we had some time to kill, then wandered out to the -other- farmer's market. I now have cheese curds and farm eggs (cheaper than I can get here) in addition to my Brussels sprouts and cider. Tried to go to an interesting restaurant withladydrake. It turned out to be closed and we ended up at Perkins, stuck behind Entitled Republican Man. He did not manage to specifically insult immigrants while we were there. I mention this because he managed to make it through just about everyone else.
I'd had a headache since I woke up, which I figured was sleep dep and the cold I've been fighting. Turns out that's not the case. It seems that I now get something vaguely related to migraines. They don't last as long as a real migraine, which is great. They only include some of the symptoms, which is sort of nice (first one included a mild headache and sudden near-blindness. This one had stabbing pain and nausea, but no light or sound problems.) However, one of the big things about migraines that I'm also lacking is the warning. I had no way of knowing this wasn't a normal headache until Suddenly It Wasn't, starting sometime around when we got in the car after lunch.
By Racine, it felt like someone was sticking an icepick into the top of my head, and I literally lost my lunch somewhere on I-94 around Seven Mile Road. The good news is that after some panting and sitting with my eye closed, I could drive again, so we made it home without having to forcesamadi to drive an unfamiliar car through the streets of Milwaukee. I did -not- take the swoopy pinball-machine ramp into downtown, tho.
Then I slept for three hours. I could happily go back to sleep again, but I'm trying to experience at least a little more daylight. This has been exhaustion week. Still tender, but I can read and move my head without feeling too ill. Maybe later food will be ok with me.
For now, I think I'm gonna play a lot of Glitch.
samadi, as expected, then headed down to Kenosha. Where they had cancelled the talk I was expecting to attend (argh), and were having some demos, but not by anyone whose techiques I felt compelled to steal. They do still have the gallery show up, however, and that is lovely. Medium-sized pieces from a lot of "name" illustrators, hung so you can get your nose nice and close to them (don't breathe on them, though!). There's a good selection of mediums, though it's mostly classical-style illustration. Absolutely worth a trip if you're in southern Wisconsin/northern Illinois before November 13. I got a good, close look at a John Jude Palencar, some of Donato's drawings and some of Janny Wurtz's paintings, all of which are invaluable to me. I also got to look at innumerable lovely slick oil paintings that I will absolutely never be able to reproduce. They're gorgeous - like brightly colored glass. Take-away lessons include "paint more" and "holy gods, work bigger." Wurtz had a couple paintings in there as small as I usually work, but they were far simpler.
We looked around at the gallery show, and at the other exhibits, since we had some time to kill, then wandered out to the -other- farmer's market. I now have cheese curds and farm eggs (cheaper than I can get here) in addition to my Brussels sprouts and cider. Tried to go to an interesting restaurant with
ladydrake. It turned out to be closed and we ended up at Perkins, stuck behind Entitled Republican Man. He did not manage to specifically insult immigrants while we were there. I mention this because he managed to make it through just about everyone else.I'd had a headache since I woke up, which I figured was sleep dep and the cold I've been fighting. Turns out that's not the case. It seems that I now get something vaguely related to migraines. They don't last as long as a real migraine, which is great. They only include some of the symptoms, which is sort of nice (first one included a mild headache and sudden near-blindness. This one had stabbing pain and nausea, but no light or sound problems.) However, one of the big things about migraines that I'm also lacking is the warning. I had no way of knowing this wasn't a normal headache until Suddenly It Wasn't, starting sometime around when we got in the car after lunch.
By Racine, it felt like someone was sticking an icepick into the top of my head, and I literally lost my lunch somewhere on I-94 around Seven Mile Road. The good news is that after some panting and sitting with my eye closed, I could drive again, so we made it home without having to force
samadi to drive an unfamiliar car through the streets of Milwaukee. I did -not- take the swoopy pinball-machine ramp into downtown, tho. Then I slept for three hours. I could happily go back to sleep again, but I'm trying to experience at least a little more daylight. This has been exhaustion week. Still tender, but I can read and move my head without feeling too ill. Maybe later food will be ok with me.
For now, I think I'm gonna play a lot of Glitch.
