I’m in the mood to do something arty. I’ve had this wild idea floating around my head for a few days that I want to get some face paints, paint some weird things on myself, then take some more self-portraits. Originally I thought of the idea as a cool addition to the JoinMe store that I’ve been working on, but now it’s branching out to other things. I could paint cool Elvish designs around my eyes in greens and browns, take my picture, then play with it digitally to create an awesome advertisement for the new Middle Earth section of the Daily Prophet. I really think I want to do it, so tomorrow I think I might head over to Michael’s and see if they have face paints relatively cheap. At DickBlick.com I can get a big tube of white face paint and then a nice little palette of primary colors for around $6.00. If I can find something like that at Michael’s then I can save myself the cost of shipping. If not, then oh well.
I also think it’d make an interesting addition to my portfolio – the combination of body and digital art. That, and I’d really like to see what I look like with swirling blue eyelids. 🙂 Originally my idea was to completely wash out my face, neck, and shoulders with white paint, and then paint red white and blue stripes starting in the corners of my eyelids, and then swirling out from there, but apparently I can’t use red paint around my eyes. Or maybe that was just with that brand. Then, to top it all off, deep red lips. The color combination is so it’ll go along with the flag theme prominant in most of the products I have for sale. And I think it’d look really cool. 🙂
But I’m not sure what I’d do with my hair. I have a spikey hair clip thing that might work, but my curls haven’t been behaving too well lately. I’d dye it except that that never works. I’ve actually tried it before, but I’ve got so much hair on my head that it just won’t cover it. I’ve never done anything wild, mind. I’ve tried a few shades of natural red, black once (just to see what it looked like – it ended up making me look even paler), and I think that’s it. Not blue or anything like that. But what would I do if I didn’t have anything to worry about and would just willy-nilly dye my hair… not sure. Red? Blue? I don’t know. For the middle earth thing I’d probably just dye it a deeper brown. But that’s not an option, so I’ll quit talking about that.
You know something else? I think I’m going to go take voice lessons. There’s an operatic singer who used to go to church with my family when we lived here in Virginia before, and I’m thinking of asking her if she’d be willing to teach me a few things. I tested myself last night and even with the flu I did pretty well. Went from Duke Ellington to Puccini without any problems, so I’ve figured out I’m an alto all the way to a high soprano. Not too shabby, I’d say, but I need to smooth out the edges. I want my soprano voice to be a bit softer.
Anyway. What did I do today. I spent the afternoon in pain because my flu’s getting worse, and then had to go to rehearsal tonight for the little play I’m in. It was so hard standing up there and actually having to project. My stomach all the way to my lungs hurt so badly, it felt almost as if I would faint for a minute up there. Got all light-headed and stuff while I was in a freeze in the background. Those lights are awful! Well, I’m okay now. I came home, crashed on the couch, got all geeky and actually watched the season premiere of Enterprise. You know, for all the stupid stuff in Star Trek I’ve always wanted to have a walk-on role somewhere. I’d be just some alien so I’d have to wear *lots* of make-up so no one would recognize me, and preferably I’d get killed somewhere near the beginning of the episode so I’m the big nameless plot-point. It’d be great fun, I think. Sadly it seems there’s only one alien race on ‘Enterprise’ that has buttloads of make-up on, but they just look so icky. (Don’t ask me to spell the species’ name, I can’t even pronounce it right. I always think of Bon-Bons when I hear it – Sulabon or something.) Anyway, I wouldn’t want to look like a giant walking scab.
That got *way* off topic. Sorry.
So yeah, I’m feeling a bit better, I think. At least I don’t feel like I’ll faint. After my trip into Geeky Land, I killed time for a while until 10 when there was a great Fred Astaire movie on. I’m really into recording movies and putting them on CDs now. I got “Top Hat”, and right now I’m recording one I haven’t seen, “Roberta.” Musicals like that are great for when I feel sick. I don’t really have to pay attention to the story, I can just lay there and go, “Wow, that was pretty…” It’s old-fashioned eye candy.
I still think that got way off topic, but since I can’t remember what the topic was – or if I even had a topic to begin with – I think I’ll just move on and forget about it. I think I’m going to run downstairs and get something to eat, in fact, so here ends tonight’s blog.