That was the plaque that ended up with the fishies looking too 'flat', right?
Ah ha, I take a lot of things way too personally, but as for art that only seems to affect my writing (all my writing is ME). I take any crit of my writing EXTREMELY personally, usually, unless I'm expecting it/have had a chance to put my mind in the right place, first. As for sticks, if someone doesn't like what I make, it's basically 'ok, whatever, I'll make it in a different colour, then, since you think this is too dark' or etc. Though I did once refuse to alter one of my favourite sticks to a customer's taste...they wanted the bone laquered so that it would be 'shiny', which would have made it look like cheap plastic, and I just wouldn't do it; I preferred not to sell it at all, in that case. Plus it is a bone stick and I don't know that I can seal them with clear top coats since most stuff doesn't 'stick', so it probably would just have destroyed it.
But I'd still have said no, honestly, even if I'd thought the top coat would have worked. I can't say it's the same, it's not that I identified with the stick...it's just that I loved it as it was and to me adding a gloss would be like cheapening it.
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Date: 2009-04-09 05:01 pm (UTC)Ah ha, I take a lot of things way too personally, but as for art that only seems to affect my writing (all my writing is ME). I take any crit of my writing EXTREMELY personally, usually, unless I'm expecting it/have had a chance to put my mind in the right place, first. As for sticks, if someone doesn't like what I make, it's basically 'ok, whatever, I'll make it in a different colour, then, since you think this is too dark' or etc. Though I did once refuse to alter one of my favourite sticks to a customer's taste...they wanted the bone laquered so that it would be 'shiny', which would have made it look like cheap plastic, and I just wouldn't do it; I preferred not to sell it at all, in that case. Plus it is a bone stick and I don't know that I can seal them with clear top coats since most stuff doesn't 'stick', so it probably would just have destroyed it.
But I'd still have said no, honestly, even if I'd thought the top coat would have worked. I can't say it's the same, it's not that I identified with the stick...it's just that I loved it as it was and to me adding a gloss would be like cheapening it.