It was driven home to me recently that the real heroes of the diamond painting world aren’t the artists themselves, but rather the technicians who do the canvas renderings. Recently, I confidently dove into to working on a custom piece—an adorable cartoon turtle that my friend drew—and I quickly discovered how incredibly difficult it is to create visual coherence on a canvas with drills, even with careful pre-planning. I made several huge mistakes with the color choices and had pull hundreds of drills out with tweezers, causing a bout of wrist irritation, and my genius plan to avoid “blockiness” only made a mess of the poor turtle’s lovely shell, and I can’t get the bubbles to look right, and the seaweed is a bit off, and all in all, it’s been...lessons learned, is the best way I can put it. I thought it would be a simple, fun project that would work up rather quickly, but that has not been the case, my friends. That turtle is beginning to haunt me. Every time I walk past my craft table and look at its cute little turtle face, I am filled with vexation at my failure. However, I have determined that I will finish it by no later than next week, and let the results stand. I’ll know next time going into a custom piece that it’s going to involve a lot of trial and error and at least some bit of frustration. And, yes, there are computer programs that you can use for rendering, but that doesn’t solve my problem of not understanding what colors work with other colors and how to effectively use the confetti technique. It will be such a relief to get back to just mindlessly sticking drills down on a canvas in which all of the decisions have been made for me.
Sadly those types of encounters are not just limited to that particular grocery chain. I especially object to having to use self-check out when they are charging more for "staffing", but cutting back on staff.
Sadly those types of encounters are not just limited to that particular grocery chain. I especially object to having to use self-check out when they are charging more for "staffing", but cutting back on staff.
May the rest of this week be a productive and stress-free one for you, Kristen! 😯