My buddy Carlota brought me wombat earrings from Australia. Glee! I’ve decided it isn’t Friday. Some rogue chronovore ate a few of my days. There’s no other explanation. I understand that some people are grateful for it being Friday, and proving that I’m not completely unreasonable, I am willing to compromise and allow it to […]
Monthly Archives: July 2004
There is a peculiar sinking feeling that we probably are all familiar with it. It is the “Uh-oh. I’ve been trapped in a conversation,” feeling. (You may get this reading my LJ, for all I know…) I am generally pretty good at avoiding these. I have no qualms about excusing myself to visit the restroom, […]
My latest Weird Fruit painting isn’t working. I did “Radishes of Paradise” which are perched like birds. And the idea is solid, and the composition is good, but…the execution didn’t quite work. It’s not anything I can put my finger on, but it just ain’t there. I think I pushed it too far, too fast […]
We got squirmy wiggly naked things! Since the likelihood of miniature naked mole rats spontaneously generating from the aether on my deck is slim–although I’d like to think that if they were going to spontaneously generate anywhere, my deck is as likely as anyplace, and more so than some–I think it’s likely that the Carolina […]
The clayboard is causing a time warp. There are things I should be working on. My normal method, when I want to paint, but need to get things done, is to alternate–lay a wash on the paintings, run in, work on the digital commissioned work stuff until the wash dries, run back, lay another wash, […]
I’m not holding my breath for my new hybrid Sewage car, but this still struck me as really neat. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/07/0701_040702_pigoil.html
Some exciting news today! Sofawolf announced it, so I can finally discuss it here–they’re publishing a book of my stuff, hopefully in time for Midwest Furfest. It’ll be a B&W sketchbook sort of thing mostly, so it’ll be primarily stuff that isn’t available on-line–sketches, the original line drawings for various paintings, weird random doodles of […]
http://yerf.com/vernursu/bighornpear.jpg The high mountain crags are home to that majestic creature, the Bighorn pear. The nimble pears somehow traverse the steep rocks without slipping and falling to their doom, and few fructovores can reach them in their chosen home. In the fruiting season, male pears often engage in vicious stem-butting contests, and the crack of […]
Went to the art supply store yesterday, in a fit of extravagance, and laid out fifty bucks for two cradled boards–one’s the gessoboard, one the smooth clayboard. The smooth clayboard was the size I wanted to use for the bighorn pear painting, and they were out of gessoboard in that size, so, with some trepidation, […]
“While closely related to elephant garlic, mammoth garlic is shaggier and has much more dramatic tusks, making its home in the far north. A typical herd is led by a garlic matriarch and contains a number of adult females and their young cloves. While female garlic remains with the herd, juvenile males will eventually leave […]