So school's finally out (it's actually been since Thursday). In four days, five if you count today, I will be off to the airport to go to Italy for a piano festival.... Three weeks in Venice, three weeks of daily music theory and ensemble rehearsals, should be fun.

If only I failed a bit less at music.

But maybe it will be okay.

So, I believe I'm taking a "new direction" with my art. That sounds like such poseur bullshit, but I say it in earnest. The celebrity thing....I'm not saying I'll definitely never do it again, I'm not saying I don't personally find it fun, but eh. It gets you a ridiculous number of pageviews, but to what purpose? You get all these people to come, just to see that you've done nothing special. And then I end up feeling like I've done nothing at all.

I will admit I love exposure. But although my new pieces receive just a fraction of what, say, my Tyler Durden drawing did, I think I've gotten over that whole phase. I really....just don't care that much anymore, what appeals to the masses. Maybe I never should have. But I was young and foolish.

Anyway, so. Just to let you know that I may or may not continue doing any celebrity portraits in general. That's not to say I will never incorporate a celebrity's face into a drawing, because sometimes I just can't resist--but the whole photo replication thing, yeah.

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