I have zero motivation today. There’s a coupla things I should be working on. I haven’t been. My brain is shot. Instead, I’ve been taking photos of the little birds, and then organizing and labelling several dozen photos (actually, over a hundred photos, but of that only several dozen tend to come out well enough […]
Monthly Archives: February 2005
I dreamed I tried to join a pirate crew. They wouldn’t take me because I was a centaur. I tried to point out that I had many sterling talents and they shouldn’t discriminate against me because I had an extra set of legs–they pointed out, fairly enough, that I was not going to be any […]
Took a walk with my friends Kathy and Leonor today, and as we were heading back to the car, a dog came up to us. It was a medium-small dog, a nondescript yellow shorthair with a dark muzzle, and it was deleriously happy to see us. And it had been a Bad Dog. It knew […]
I am contemplating erecting a bird blind in my living room. What stops me is primarily the fact that I’m not sure how I’d go about it, although I admit there’s a nagging feeling of absurdity in there as well. On the other hand, nagging feelings of absurdity have never stopped me in the past, […]
As I was driving to go pick up James, an owl launched itself from the grassy verge on the passenger’s side of the car and swept across the road in a great indistinct wash of wings, barely two feet in front of the car. My foot jerked on the gas pedal, but long before the […]
The swamp is not bad at the moment. I am treading water easily, or will be once the obligatory Monday Malaise is over. One major project seems to have fallen through, since t’other parties have gone incommunicado for several weeks, and so I’m left with only…four things that need to be done–two covers, c comic […]
I was talking to a friend of mine online today about projects that grow legs and go places, and this got me thinking about projects I have worked on, and how many of them eventually went somewhere, or got recycled into things that did go somewhere, and so forth.
Hey, look! A gearworld painting! In the wrong frickin’ media! As an experiment with oil pastels! Bugger. http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/15024015/ My muse is an absolute cad. If anybody has worked with oil pastels, any advice or suggestions would be welcome–I really like the textures, and would like to fool with ’em a bit more, but I’m still […]
Today is a make-prints, make-art, wander around forgetting where you put things day. Fooling with this painting using oil pastels, which I had a mad urge to try–two of my favorite artists, Susan Seddon Boulet and Oscar Chiconi use ’em over acrylic ink washes, and since I’ve been playing with acrylic ink washes, I figured, […]
Since people keep asking for photos, here’s some of the results of a coupla days last week spent with a tripod focused on the suet feeder. Mostly I got bluebirds and a mockingbird, but I’ll try again this week. The photos have been filtered a bit since the lighting washed things out, so they may […]