It's very strange to not be working on the giant tarot project.  Although I still have things to do for it, like formatting the deck, I'm sorta stalled until I can get a copy of Adobe InDesign.  Apparently, the printer requires vector formatting of the image submissions and won't take Photoshop files if there is text involved.  I will hopefully get a copy soon.  We're shooting for an October 21, 2011 release date.  Yes, the purported end-of-the-world... I liked that date because I find it both amusing and ironic.  I'd like to have the release party and a gallery showing that day.  Trying to figure out where to host it.

But again, strange to not be working on the tarot anymore.  I started an Italian White VIne illumination last night, which is about the first time in nearly two years that I have done an illumination.   It was so weird to draw in a style not of the Tarot, I really had a difficult time switching gears.  I need to make two scrolls for a friend in the SCA, for a Court Barony, and both in the White Vine style.  I will post progress pics on Twitter, it should be really nice when its done.  I'll finish drawing the first one up today and start the gilding process. 

Michelle also has some short stories that I'm going to illustrate, some black&white pen art I think.  Color is nice, but I do love pen art.  I may poke around on that this weekend.  The illumination doesn't have a deadline, so I can paint for a while and then take a break if I need to. 

I don't really have big plans for the weekend.  I was thinking that I might want to bbq something, probably make a trip to my favorite butcher.  I do need to go to the mall and get some work clothes... god, I am SO boring right now!!  (blah)   Probably will just hang around and muck around with some art.  I planted tomato plants last weekend.  If they survive being waterlogged with all the rain this week, I hope to make chilli and such in a few short months.  Ugh... I'm boring even to me!!!

I hope everyone else is doing more exciting things than I am.  I feel like my brain is taking a vacation and is sitting in my skull watching the grass grow.  I think I'm just exhausted on a few levels.  The worst part is, not having a project is making me feel a little crazy.  I've been projecting for 5 years now, thinking only of one thing.  This is like losing a job or something.  I honestly don't know what to do with myself and nothing is truly interesting to me at the moment.  Like, I keep searching for something to do, and little things aren't fulfilling.  Seriously, if its not a project, I don't know how to look at it or how to feel about it.  Its partly why I keep looking at grad school.  Long scoping project to eat my time and focus me.  Gah...