Artist - Part 19 - Painting Stuff

I started a new painting last week; my previous two attempts were not to my liking. I am going to use more walnut oil to keep the oil wet.

In my last painting I painted a still life with three sets of shoes. I achieved what I wanted technically in the last two hours of the painting. That leaves the majority of the painting in just OKsville. I know working wet into wet is the only way to achieve my goal.

My next strategy is to work section by section as to keep the paint wet as i move along the canvas.

Do I have Parkinson’s? no, it seems Aspartame is causing my Shaking!

A month before Christmas I started getting tremors and muscle spasms, they were like nothing that I had ever felt in my life and occurred when my muscles were at rest. It all started with a muscle, deep in my back twitching uncontrollably for about 5 minutes. Weeks latter my left arm vibrated for a 5 days. I thought I had Parkinson’s.

I went to see my doctor before Christmas; he couldn’t find anything wrong in my blood work or neurologically. I took his valued opinion to heart and decided it had to be something I was doing or wasn’t doing to myself that was causing these unnerving symptoms.

The first thing I gave up caffeine, then ibuprofen and that seemed to help for awhile but over the last month it started coming back with a vengeance. Hmmmm.

Last week someone suggested I stop drinking diet coke with aspartame. I hear something “is bad for you”, a few times a day so I took the suggestion with a grain of salt. But I didn’t reject it totally… I started doing some research….

WOW… aspartame is very bad… skull and bones bad. It’s been a week and my tremors and spasms are all but gone and the majority of symptoms disappeared after the first day. I’ll give it time, maybe a month or two to draw complete conclusions. But so far this seems to be working.