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Last Sunday I checked out a local open figure drawing studio session. It's the first one I've found (after five years of looking!) that was both not too far away and works with my travel schedule. It was held at Neptune Studios in Utica, New York, and it was really great. I mean, well, my drawing wasn't so great, but everything else was. Everyone there was very nice and down-to-earth, the environment was casual (a must for me), and the model (in addition to being nice) was just superb. Jan Burke, who owns Neptune Studios, was a pleasure to talk with and her efforts to help promote the arts in this area are both admirable and impressive. I'm looking forward to next week already, and hoping to get some time in sculpting at some point this weekend as well. I've already dusted off my drawing supplies and bought some new ones in anticipation for next week.

If you're in Central New York and are free some Sunday night, you should think about checking it out.

So, it's now time for my current excuse for not updating the site often as I used to: I keep getting extended on my current project (day job stuff), and at the last minute, too. Just as I think I'm about to roll off, I get extended, making my work life a constant series of impossible deadlines. But, I'm going to start pushing back; I can't keep up the crazy hours forever, and I've got some side projects that I'm supposed to be working on that I haven't been able to put any time in on. And, of course, I want to sculpt. It's been almost a week since I last touched clay and that's just not good for my sanity.