you win some, you bruise some

at home in the studio. may 2013.

so the long and short of it...is i didn't get it. no ireland. no residency. no nada. a few more rejection letters to add to the mounting pile. 
you think i'd be used to it by now. 

in other news, i painted the set for nevada opera's don giovanni. 1000sq ft in six days extremely under budgeted by my own doing. 
"first one's free," right, dave? right.
that was a fucking lesson. never learned anything so much the cracked out hard way in my life. sheesh. 

needless to say, i got it done. it looked alright. i was thankful to be asked and i'll be shocked if i ever do anything like that again.


so what's the next thing i'm waiting for? 

to hear back from sierra art's artist grant application. if i can get the green ($$$), i can paint the sistine. 


...or something like that.