New World, New Man, Old Artist

By: Artslave Mood: full of life Date: 09/05/2008 20:54:24 Music: None

I paroled on 8-08-08, the luckiest day of the century according to  the Chinese.  It's certainly a day I hope I'll never forget.  The feeling of putting on real clothes...walking out the Gate...boarding a plane as a free man after so many years.  I want to always remember gazing down at the world from 32,000 feet and realizing I'm now in one of those very planes I would stare up at from my prison yard...wishing.
 I am in a halfway house, of sorts.  A recovery home, they call it.  Good title.  
 I was given $200 as "gate money" and I saved a little by selling portraits in prison, at $30 a head.  I have to spend wisely.  Food & shelter is covered for six months.  The rest is pretty simple:  Clothes, Salvation Army...Hygiene, 99cent Store...Art Supplies, luckily there's lots of stores in an artist colony.  So far, I could afford bristol, a sketchpad, a 36set Prismacolors, a 6B, 4B, a couple HBs, and a kneaded eraser.
 All set.
 My first commission is of a child.  Headshot w/background, 11x14, in graphite.  I have permission to post it when its completed.  Give me a couple days.

***I only have access to the internet on Wednesdays when they (the recovery home) takes us to the public library.  I will post each time.