Feeling Better

So, last night I was feeling down due to this whole house thing and I still am.  Therefore I'm not going to talk about it.  Instead I'm going to go on and on about what excites me and hope that it gets my day off to a good start. 

First off, my CJ Bloomer.  Yep!  Last night he showed me one of the most beautiful drawings I have ever seen.  It just had "IT."  I'm hoping that this will be the start of a new era in our world and the illustration world.  There isn't enough people that truly appreciate the talent and skill it takes to be able to render an idea so skillfully AND be a great artist. However, I pride myself with being someone who truly enjoys the work of real, skilled artists.  So much so, that I found the best one, supported his potential, and married the man.  You may think me bias.  Well, on top of me not caring and the fact that your wrong, CJ Bloomer is a dyeing breed that deserves support.  Someone who has a wonderful imagination and an uncanny skill to put that thought on paper with such success that you wish it was real or, even better, think it may be. 

So much of this crap on and in books today is lacking the old magic of a paintbrush, fountain pen, and imagination.  All that matters is that as many can be printed as possible and the greatest profit made.  That vice flows all the way down; writer, illustrator, publisher, and reader.  What ever happened to the book you read over and over, cherished the workmanship of the binding, and stared at the pictures like if you did it long enough you would fall into them?  That was the world of The Great illustrators;  Arthur Rackham, Edmond Dulac, and the like.  That should be the world of CJ Bloomer, but I haven't found that there are many that hold such things as I do.  This may sound like a sad thing that I said I was going to avoid, but worry not friends.  There is lots of hope.  For as long as I have a breath left in me, I will support my artist, until the whole world wises up and realizes what is important.  If that day never comes, there is no waste, because I'm sure there is a special allotment of good karma just for people who support "God's gift's."  That is enough for me.