KendallightStudios

Yup, that's right. A year later. What's happened? Well, I graduated from Visual Arts and I'm only a few steps away from funding to convert my garage into an artist studio. I've been working fairly steadily as a portrait artist and I hope to see this take off soon. Oh, and I'm not quite so miserable. Thank the 'happy pills'. Lol.

Hey all two of you who read this...

So my birthday is on Sunday...it's the time of year that I get to look back on my accomplishments and realize how much I haven't done. I f*ckin' hate my birthday. I'll be 36 this year - young in terms of total life expectancy, I suppose..(I could live to be 100 - that means 64 years left!) However, I find that it's more of a focus on the 4 years to 40...40 is when I think I really should be "grown up". I don't really see that happening, but I have this half-ass hope that by 40 I will have established a fairly successful (i.e. earning a living) illustration business here in Newfoundland that is unlike anything else around here.

I've never told you my dream? Well, let's get that out of the way! You see, I have this idealization that I open a small comic shop (geek) that also caters to the weird and fantastical (double geek) and, behind the store's counter, I have a drawing table set up where I do my illustration. My shop floor has couches for the kids to sit and read - hopefully stuff they bought - while the walls are not only lined with merchandise but also drawing tables and free access computers. A hangout really. I would teach drawing to kids a night or 2 a week, and have a drawing jam as well.

I want to sell a lifestyle, and give to the community a place where the kids can hang out - away from all the terrible things I see that happens when there is nothing to occupy the young mind. Whattaya think?

I am on the road to making it happen, but every now and then I get sidetracked...by my damn diabetes I suppose - which, when I don't control it, takes me over with a depression that really f*cks me up. I'm actually fighting through it now, which is why I'm rambling on this journal - I'm hoping to get out of the rut and get back to work.

Well - I do feel a little better, so thanks for listening. Hope we can chat again sometime.

Peace.

Kevin

Oh yeah, I have this Deviantart journal...forgot about that. I have two weeks to do art for the big high school reunion trade show thingy happening on Aug 1st in Port au Port, Newfoundland. I've commited to having some generic celebrity portraits done along with - get this - an ashcan sketch book of my garbage. I also plan on doing caricatures of old friends...should be fun.

I guess I'm just clearing my head to begin, realizing that the amount of work I want to have done is going to be a challenge. Watching the kids all day makes it difficult, so it's time to call the sisters and grandmother to take them off my hands for a little while. I want to post what I get done, so stay tuned for my triumpt or my failure...should be fun.

"Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease."

Me.

About 10 years ago I promised a friend that I would do a portrait for her...I then went on to a lucrative career in Automotive warehousing and manufacturing management (how...exciting). Anyhoo, now that I'm in school for Visual Arts persuing a career in, you guessed it, visual arts...I thought I would do the portrait and a few other incomplete projects from the past to 'clear out the closet' so to speak and start fresh. I've added the pic to the gallery and Nirmala, wherever you are, it's yours for free...(late discount I suppose...lol)