I had a dream that a bear was trying to get into the house, clawing down the front door, got its bearish arms through the mail slot, and was flailing madly hither and yon. (We don’t have a mail slot.) It got ahold of the cat, and James leapt to the rescue, beating up the […]
Monthly Archives: December 2004
It’s foggy. For awhile, the view off the deck resembled an “Atmospheric Perspective For Beginners” tutorial–everything faded neatly into misty white, in a very crisp gradient of dark bare trees to airbrushed gray shadows. Life rarely imitates art so perfectly. Then twilight hit, and the fog turned blue. It was really quite extraordinarily blue. It […]
Been running into the Pricing Wall of Doom lately. Also known as James saying “Dear god! What are you THINKING?!” It’s not commissions this time, which I’m fine with, it’s the originals.
Whew! http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/13008873/ How Ursula has been spending her last few evenings…
And some nice person just gave me an anonymous LJ paid up thing. And some other nice person who happens to be katarina42 gave me even more of a paid LJ thing! Thank you, both of you! You’re all cool and stuff! I appreciate it! Thank you! (I always run out of useful things to […]
It was suggested that I post a Christmas list for my friends who find me hard to shop for. And I thought about it. I feel weird posting lists, because it sounds like a demand to GIVE ME STUFF. And in the event that people have already got stuff for me, I don’t want them […]
I’m spending this morning filling print orders. Christmas so far has been fantastic–I’ve moved nearly half of my standard sales volume in five or six days. (And–shameless plug–if you don’t know what to get people for Christmas, consider a print from www.metalandmagic.com ! I have at least one person who said they were giving prints […]
So I’m painting this voodoo-esque scene, and like all good practicioners of the bastard stepchild of Santeria, the figure in the painting has a pet rooster of dark and glossy mein. Still in the throes of morning slow-on-the-uptakeness, I hopped on Google, thinking vaguely to check how the tail feathers should look, and began typing. […]
James: (Comes home) Me: “Sorry I was groggy on the phone–I was napping…” James: “Oh, good, I was afraid I’d gotten you off the toilet again.” Me: “No, no…I was having this dream…I was in this maze full of stuffed animals…with glass doors…and I had to get the stuffed animals to take care of each […]
There’s a lot of things I should be doing. A lot of things. Many, many things. Instead, I’m playing the gloriously sandboxy “Children of the Nile.” And the painting that I was doing of the chicken religious icon is half done, and I started a painfully ambitious one of the sea hag character, because I […]