Rachel H. White

7/14/6

I am tickled pink to announce that one of  my paintings has been accepted into the 33rd Annual Juried Exhibition at Spartanburg County Museum of Art!  It's one from the Body & Blood series: the Werewolf Sighting (http://rachelhwhiteart.com/bbwolf.htm).  Information on the show is at http://www.spartanburgartmuseum.org/ and hopefully they'll update their info on the exhibition before too long seeing as how it's already on display.  Well, the reception is Saturday July 22 from 6-8 pm at the Arts Center 385 S. Spring St.

As you can see I have also been working a little bit on the dragon and phoenix painting.  It would be amazing the things I would do if I'd just work on my art every day.  Sometimes I wonder if it would be easier if I just didn't have to mix paint so much.  Skin tones are some of the most difficult colors to mix.

I am also continuing to work on the background and structure of my book Body & Blood.  Something I was toying around with this week is developing a story arc for the entire series of books that are based around this set of characters.  It's a little difficult as there are several elements stretching over a timeline in my little story universe that are all interconnected with Pierce's story, some of which do not appear in any of the four books I'm planning on including in this particular series.

I've also found a new little bitty teensy weensy obsession, which I very often find myself doing when I start watching a good TV show.  This week its been Smallville.  We rented the first season on Netflicks and I'm hooked.  I'll only give you one guess as to who my favorite character is, but I think you'll guess it anyway. 

Funny thing is normally I love the tall, handsome guy with dark hair and blue eyes, and am usually turned off by bald guys... but then again I am always more likely to have a thing for the "bad guy".  What can I say, Lex is more interesting.  You never know what he's going to do.  I mean, Clark is an easy character: he's the biggest boyscout ever.  The thing I like best about the series is that Lex is not a bad guy, that he's often a very good guy.  Well, anyway, as you can tell by the fact that I've written a longer paragraph here about Smallville than I have about my painting being in the show, I've been thinking about this way too much.  I like to think of it as research: examining the structure of other people's stories within my genre.  It also gives me a little opportunity to explore my own psychological quirks, asking myself why I'm interested in the man with the dark side instead of the guy with the heart of gold.  Yeah, those are my excuses anyway.

7/20/6

I haven’t done anything blogworthy for the past few days.  Blogworthy in my case meaning having to do with art or writing.  Pardon this entry if it's a little choppy.

I did wash my car Tuesday, but other than that I’ve mostly been watching Smallville.  It occurred to me a few minutes ago that the influx of new stories from the series may be overwhelming my story processing center in my brain.  Thus why my brain feels all gummy when I try to think about Pierce, and then I get bored and go off into choppy fantasies about Lex Luthor/Michael Rosenbaum. 

The reason I say my story center is overloaded is because I start processing the show after I’ve watched it.  I think about the story structure, and the characters and where they've been and where the series is going with them, and then I imagine myself as acting in the cast or myself as a character in the story.  I have a tendency to dream about it even, although nothing particularly coherent (the one I remember specifically was after I watched Blade one day: I dreamed I was at a huge gathering of vampires, and I was just about to give up and enjoy the mayhem, after all I’ve often wanted to be a vampire, but then they brought Chloe out tied to a stake and looking at me like “Rachel!  What are you doing here?!” and I was like “Oh, my God, what am I thinking?  I gotta save Chloe!”  I’m sitting here laughing as I write this because it sounds so absolutely typical of like TV people’s dreams).  My brain is so busy processing the episodes, it’s not allowing me to switch over to my story universe.

There was one interesting little event this week tho: I wrote this little blurb about it right after it happened: 7/17/6 - 10:38 pm: I just saw a raccoon!  He peeked his little masked face in the window we leave open for the cats.  I'm a little giddy now, having never seen one in real life before.  RJ came a knockin'...or rather a creepin'.

On another note, I've been thinking about applying for the Spartanburg Tech graphic design job.  I’m highly qualified for it since they’re asking for people with an associates degree in design and 2 years experience or a high school diploma and 4 years experience, whilst I have a bachelor's degree in “Visual Communication and Design” and a little over 2 years experience.  I’m putting down the salary I want from them as $30,000 per year.  That’s about $9,000 more than I make now, and it’s in the middle of their stated range.  I still don’t know if I want it but the deadline for applications is tomorrow.  What I’m itching about is it’s not my money situation that’s paining me right now, it’s my lack of production that is keeping my illustration business from getting off the ground.  A new job that is full time is not going to fix that!  The money would be nice, but I would have to spend a certain amount of it ahead of time to get clothes suitable for that environment, plus driving a longer distance in my car and all that entails, etc.  There would be all the hassles of being a designer, and they would all be for the same clients, nothing fresh and new and possibly fun.  On the upside I’d be working with Mac computers and the programs I like (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop) but I’d still be doing the drudgery of design work.  I’d have to answer the phone when it rings but at least it would be for me and I could answer their questions more often than not, and I’d have my own cube probably.  I also doubt I'd like most of the people I'd be working for, especially compared with Vickie (my boss at Ad-Craft Signs), but I'd be working in a newer building where people aren't allowed to smoke.  I don't know...

Another thought I’ve had lately is maybe since I feel burnt out on writing and art that I need to be doing other things on my to-do list like making my pirate costume.  Don’t know.  I think the main thing is if I’m going to be processing Smallville I need to do so while painting on the wings image or other art project, and since the wings image needs to be finished, it’s on the top of the list so that’s the one I will work on.

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