My attempts to get a good night’s sleep were in no way enhanced by Athena’s decision to beat a mouse to death under my side of the bed at about 6 AM. She’s been getting more and more successful at mousing lately. I don’t know how. My mental vision of the inside of Athena’s head […]
Monthly Archives: February 2006
They call him…Wormlord. http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/29343339/
I was about twenty minutes from a finished painting, I was In The Zone, when Painter ate it. My last alternate save had been three hours before. I had been so in the zone that I spaced saving it. It’s entirely my own fault for carelessness, which makes the sting even worse. Righteous indignation would […]
Maaaaan, it’s cold out. I went out to Lake Crabtree to do my part for the Great Backyard Bird Count, but sheee-yit. I managed half an hour, and then packed in–the hard-won hardiness from my decade in Minnesota has long since melted away, and now I am the depths of wuss. Nothing real exciting, just […]
Well, I’m participating in the great backyard bird count this weekend, and holy crap, what a day. Twenty species in the backyard so far today–I even saw an eastern towhee, who’s a rare visitor to my yard, and I hadn’t seen one prior this year. Flickes, finches, titmice, warblers, woodpeckers…it was an enormous crowd. I […]
Speaking of oils over acrylics, a very very short painting demo by that paragon of the art, my mother! It’s not quite a tutorial, but she does promise to write one some day. She’s got an interesting sort of technique entirely different from mine. Demo!
By dint of staying up until the small hours of the morning again, and painting in a convulsive frenzy for seven or eight hours straight, I got the background of the second run at this painting mostly done. I am somewhat pleased at the misty effects I’ve gotten in acrylic, mostly by layering and smearing […]
Aaaaand…it sucks. My attempt to tackle this piece in oils has resulted in what looks like, to use the technical term, “ass on a stick.” You win some, you lose some. This homily does not make it any less frustrating when you’ve lost one, mind you, but it’s still true. Once I am past the […]
I was up ’til the wee hours of the morning last night doin’ the acrylic underpainting for this piece. I NEVER do an underpainting. Underpainting to me is like painting the damn thing twice. I have largely resigned myself to the fact that I will never be a meticulous realist because my attention span is […]
Okay, the oils are in the closet…. *rummage rummage rummage* Gotta move the rolling hamper with all the boards, and squeeze into the space between it and the bookcase, and get the closet door open, and grab the box and OH CRAP I should have moved the hamper out farther, my fingers ow ow ow […]