Love and HATE!

I created this illustration a few years ago. You can tell by the huge size of the monitor. I love this picture, a moose on vacation checking his e-mail back home. Ahhhhh, sipping his latte and enjoying correspondence with friends.

Then the computer crashes, his deadlines loom while the mouse locks and the screen goes blank. He races to the computer store hoping for a quick, cheap fix only to be told it will take days and maybe the hardware is faulty which could be big money and AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

Yes, love and hate in the world of technology. As an artist you would think with the simple tools of pen and paper I could avoid such drama. Sigh..don't I wish. My computer melted as I was trying to send a press release of my book to an interested distributor. I also needed to create a poster and ad for our annual Art on the Lake function. I also had on my list creating a sketch for a customer of a commissioned piece (the photos he sent me where on the computer). Nope, nada, not happening.

All hail the humble pencil. Bow low to the simple crayon. I lift my head in song to the white gleam of paper but now I give an officially snub to the *&#!* computer.