Spent today bent over a face. It is quite good (well, for me.) It is a quantum leap forward from previous sculptural attempts of mine, and I am very pleased, and Super Sculpey rules. However, since I worked fairly large, it is nearly six inches high, and I’d have to make quite a large body […]
Monthly Archives: July 2005
We return from the wilds of Pennsylvania, having visited the parental units and my kid brother. It’s often said that some parrots have the abstract reasoning capacity of small children. Fine and good, doesn’t sound too outrageous to me. However, what they fail to mention is that small children also share a number of traits […]
Studio Assault is going well! Got the rack in, got most of the stuff in it–I still need to take a load of cardboard to the dump, so there’s a moderately scary corner, but the studio is definitely shaping up as someplace I want to work in, rather than some place to store art and […]
I’ve been running errands, in and out of the car, all day. A few minutes ago, I went out to the car to put some laundry in the back, and discovered something pale hanging from the driver’s side, where it had been slammed in the door. It looked pale and swayed a little. I thought […]
Man, I wanna visit Tasmania. Quolls! Mini-macropods! And of course, the noble wombat, which Jeff Corwin was snuggling earlier. Wombats in snow. Sad anime wombats in snow? Nah, now I’m just gettin’ weird.
Studio Assault, Day 2, dawned dark, but ended well, as with much wrangling, sweating, grunting, and re-packing, I managed to get the large foamcore box that has been mocking me* into the closet, and–an almost unthinkable victory–got the closet door shut. With the door shut, I immediately wheeled the now-bulging-with-unfinished-art-and-mats laundry cart in front of […]
Studio Assault is going well! I picked up a wheeled laundry cart with canvas bags on hooks, and it’s perfect for storing mats, half-finished art, and illo board. Now I just need to figure out something for the Big Stuff–some kind of plastic storage tote, sans lid, will work in a pinch, although I’m hoping […]
Well, my nerves are normal. Also, the answer to “Will this hurt?” is not “Maybe a little,” it is “Oh, hell, yeah.” They did a series of increasing shocks at various key points from a little medical taser. The first one was a mild annoyance. The second one was startling and painful. The third one […]
I read the latest Harry Potter yesterday, in one fell swoop, pop culture whore that I am. Needless to say, between that and Con exhaustion, my dreams were dark and grim and frantic, leading to such charming moments as being some kind of bodyguard, I abandoned my charge (who bore a suspicious resemblance to Draco […]
Phew. Trinoc is over. I have a little more money, a lovely silk-painted scarf of a wombat, and a copy of the latest Harry Potter to show for it. It was a long weekend. It’s not the con’s fault–it was slow and sales were down 30-40% from last year, but it happened to everybody, and […]