Got bored last Tuesday scrolling through feeds when that moon art idea popped up. Figured why not waste three hours digging? Grabbed my dusty library card and stormed to the local branch.
Step one was pure chaos: Ripped out every art book that even mentioned "night sky." Dumped 'em on a wobbly table. Spilled cold coffee on some Renaissance dude's beard page. Whoops.
My Clueless Research Mess:
- Started flipping like a madman. Couldn’t tell an oil painting from acrylic to save my life.
- Found some Greek vase with a blob. Thought it was a potato. Notes said "Selene’s chariot." Felt stupid.
- Almost gave up when this big van Gogh book whacked my knee. Saw swirly sky. Eureka moment? Maybe.
The actual paintings part hurt my brain: Needed four stupid examples real people kinda know. Googled "moon in art famous" on my cracked phone. Too many ads. Shoved the phone in my pocket.
What Finally Stuck:
- That van Gogh sky rollercoaster thing everyone posts - "Starry Night." Obvious pick. Moon looks small and moody. Good.
- Some dark German painting - guy Caspar Friedrich. Man staring at fog with tiny moon. Weirdly depressing. Counts.
- Ukiyo-e woodblock print - waves trying to smack the moon? Hokusai did it. Crowd-pleaser.
- Moon landing photos? Cheated a bit. Found a NASA poster with astronaut planting flag. Modern art? Sure why not.
Took garbage phone pics of the pages. Lighting was terrible. Shadows looked like monster claws. Whatever. Wrote garbage notes on a pizza receipt. Sauce stains everywhere.
Putting it together sucked: Sat at my kitchen table. Typed fast before forgetting everything. Brain kept mixing up artist names. Fried? Couldn’t remember if van Gogh painted sunflowers or that sky thing. Googled again. Hated myself.
Finished the draft at 2 AM. Ate cold leftovers straight from the box. Re-read it. Realized I called Hokusai "Hokey-Pokey" twice. Fixed that. Still feel like an idiot for wasting a whole day. Why didn't I just binge Netflix instead? Moon art. Pfft.
