21 August 2021

 

     Got my mile run in this morning, showered, and did my van Gogh styled painting.

     I started trying to juxtapose complimentary colored brush strokes.  Outside of the very light values, it looks terrible.  I did find if I accidentally get some complement in there, that works.  Therefore I need to learn how to "accidentally" get some complementary color in there. Otherwise sticking with the same color, with value fluctuations, and outlines in the complement, seems to work strong.

     I also noticed that he seemed to use two pairs of complements.  In my self-portrait I want to stick to violet and yellow.  It is my artists' bucket list and I always wanted to do a painting in those complements.  So shall it be.

     Isn't art exciting?  You bet it is.

     I was thinking about my upcoming MRI of the brain and spinal cord.  Dr. Pophali said that unless the cancer has tumored up in the brain, we know there are cancer cells in the CNS, there is nothing they can do.

     I must be the only person alive hoping I have a brain tumor.  How funny is that?

     I just want them to be able to keep my arm and eyes viable until I get too sick to make art any more.  The vision has been usable, but difficult the last few days.

     The arm really smarts today.  The acetaminophen took the pain way down, but only for a short while.  I will have to start pounding those every six hours.  Maybe more often.  They won't know I am not taking them in my sleep.

     I try to stay away from the opioids unless I must.  They get me stoned, and I am fuzzy in the head enough.  Plus the constipation they cause sometimes creates more pain than some of the other things.