AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

People from every generation can say:
"I've seen it,
I've heard it,
I've read it,
I've felt it,
I've had it,
I've made it,
I've said it,
I'm saying it."
So, what is "it?"

The other day I visited Chip Foley, who works at Prosthodontics Associates in South Portland. After a fairly in-depth tour of the lab, he brought out all of the dental sculpting waxes and wax tools and I just sat in his lab for an hour and a half just trying them all. I'm most accustomed to using hard modeling waxes which aren't really useful for additive modelling, or really soft waxes which aren't very good for carving. Injection waxes are ok for both, but these waxes he let me use were great. They are taylor made for hot sculpting as well as carving. They are also opaque and come in several different colors-beige, brown, mint green, red.

My etsy store has a variety of drawings, paintings, prints, and jewelry for sale. Please check it out if only just to see my work!

http://daedalsmith.etsy.com

Look at my my attached images for a taste...

Yes I have played shadow of the colossus but not regularly or recently, for that matter. Anyway, I've been climbing on this giant beast for the longest time. I don't quite feel tired yet, but I am getting impatient. I know at some point I will decide to stab this giant monster with my sword and bring it to its knees, wherupon I will dance upon its carcass and rejoice! I just want to make sure I stab it in the right spot. I don't want to test this beast. I want to slaughter it outright or leave it alone.

I am in the precarious position of being an unestablished and unemployed artist. I enjoy my freedom immensely and I work on my art every single day. I'm not always pleased with the direction I'm headed, but I've decided to trust that good work will come out and to just keep pushing. I usually have at least 10 pieces that I can be working on so if I get bored, I work on something else. I know to trust myself by the way I feel when making things and how I feel when I look at things I made in the past. I get excited and frantic. Nothing else matters at the moment. While working, there is definitely a zone, the one that athletes and musicians get into. If I don't feel that frantic, adrenaline-like feeling, something is wrong. It means that my motivations or methods are faulty. If I need a special tool or supply, I skip onto something else without regrets. I have enough ideas that I can realize with the resources at hand that I have no excuse to idle.