There is a caterpillar on the doorframe leading out to the deck (on the outside.) He is about an inch and a half long, dark, with snazzy yellow racing stripes and some orderly paired yellow spots (more of interrupted stripes) along his back. He is not fuzzy, but has some fleshy spikes, a black head […]
Monthly Archives: August 2004
Had a dire allergy attack yesterday. Snorf. Something must have bloomed. Did not get to the Claritin in time to stave off the histamine reaction. Functioning at very low capacity, I crawled out to the chiropractor (who again did not offer to fix my non-back ailments, but did suggest that eating dairy tended to aggravate […]
Alright, I’ll bow to the excellent advice given by everybody and…charge more. My plan is to finish all the commissions I’ve agreed to, with a moratorium on new ones. Upon analysis, of the companies I’m currently working with, there’s one in particular that commissions a whole bunch of $35-40 color quarter pagers, which are eating […]
The notion that, in a few months, I might actually be able to get out from under the commission yoke, even if only for the space of a brief experiment, spurred me to creative heights (or at least my usual lows) and I doodled rather a lot today. The Loch Ness Dodo http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/9897406/ Plesiosaurs in […]
And on a more light-hearted note, the silliness that is…Disco Starnose. http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/9892172/ or the VCL http://vcl.ctrl-c.liu.se/vcl/Artists/Ursula-Vernon/discomole.jpg
Math can be discouraging.
So the rat sold right away, to my surprise–and as several other people made inquiries, my eventual dismay. I always feel bad when people want to buy a painting that’s sold already, as if I have somehow failed by not having more in stock. It’s not even the money, I just kinda feel bad that […]
So I went out to get a book from the car, turning on the porchlight as I went. I stepped onto the front porch and noted a stick on the porch. A…moving…stick. It was a millipede, maybe three inches long, of a variety I hadn’t seen before. I called James out. He looked at it, […]
In between having my back palpitated and painting yet more of the Endless Death March of the Happy Frog, I used the excuse to fool around with some acrylic paint markers I’d picked up on a whim, and did a physical version of the Burch-inspired red rat. http://yerf.com/vernursu/redrat2.jpg Wild stylistic departures can be fun. I […]
Phrases you don’t want to hear from the chiropractor: “Holy crap, that’s like popcorn!” (My right wrist makes exciting popping noises when manipulated.) That amusement aside, I was pretty impressed–he was very straightforward, not particularly flaky, and did not offer me immortality if I came in daily for a year. Other than wanting to see […]