Okay, this one I gotta get off my chest. Has the Socratic method just fallen by the wayside? Does no one use it anymore? Does debate no longer follow this excellent system whereby one’s compatriots maul and mangle and attempt to locate exceptions in one’s thesis, and if said thesis weathers the slings and arrows […]
Monthly Archives: August 2003
Been sketching a lot today. This is generally a good thing. Here’s two of the better results: The Strep Throat Fairy This is all you people’s fault. If you hadn’t encouraged me about about the newt painter, (I’d link to the finished version of that one, but DeviantArt’s up and down like a lemur with […]
I really did intend to work on my tamarin piece. James likes it. (I hate it, but I’m not a reliable indicator.) Unfortunately, I was seized with this idea while waiting for it to dry. I think someone told me recently that I should paint more fairies. There’s a reason I don’t paint more fairies. […]
Went out and washed the car, something we never did to the Honda, but which our glossy Altima seems to demand. On the way back, they played “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction” on the radio, which always reminds me of my Japanese class. I took Japanese for three years in high school, and am ashamed […]
Again, with the experiments…today I worked on this sucker which I decided is called a “storkenvane” and is a late descendant of the platypus. While not terribly distinguished in and of itself, the technique was watercolor over sepia ink, and it came out kinda interesting. I still find myself slathering on the sepia and blue […]
Played around with technique today–I’ve been wanting to find new stuff to try with watercolor, since, let’s face it, originals sell, and I got the mad idea to put some in the Coppercon art show in September. However, after Trinoc, I’m back down to about four originals, including furry stuff, and so it’s back to […]
An amusing thing happened at Trinoc*con that got me thinking… I was drunk. This happens very rarely, and only because James was on Vicodin and I had to stand in as a stunt liver. I generally don’t drink, not out of any particular aversion to the notion, but because I never did manage to acquire […]
Well, we got back from the dentist. $700 to crown the tooth, and our insurance won’t cover any of it, the buggers. Ah, well. It eats our profits from Trinocon, but at least there were profits to eat, and it’s not like I’m gonna let James wander around with half a tooth missing. (It IS […]
Well, I’m back from Trinocon.