James: “So I saw the coolest thing at the grocery store!” Ursula: “What was it?” James: “It was restored and everything!” Ursula: “What was?” James: “The thing!” Ursula: “What thing?” James: “THE THING!” Ursula: “…you mean the car?”* James: “Yeah!” (pause) Ursula: “You planned out just how you were going to phrase that, didn’t you?” […]
Monthly Archives: April 2006
I feel like this style is really starting to get somewhere. Also, nature is cool. http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/32605651/
Art. Cooking on. Thing. Art! Waiting for paint to dry. Drydrydry! Dry, damn you! Argh! Art! Must art! ART NOW! DRY LATER! EEEE!
Another day, another run at technique. Tried combining inking and scribble together. The combo actually is not entirely without merit, and I may have to try it again at some point–inking flattens things, but the depth and texture of scribble returns some of it. Will have to keep foolin’ around with it. http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/32483485/
Today I’m working on the 300th page of Digger. And y’know, I feel kinda proud about that. Proud, and a bit baffled. I keep looking around and going “Wait…what? How did that happen?” And I can sorta see the end from here. Oh, not for awhile yet. I’d be rather surprised if we didn’t hit […]
The house next to us has been for sale, and has sold, and in theory therefore, the lady living there will be moving out. She had eight cats. Most of them are outdoors. I am praying with every ounce and fiber of my being that she is taking the cats with her, and not merely […]
Wow. I went to this Garden Center place in Cary today, and…wow. “Do you need any help?” asked the nice woman, as I staggered through the aisles of bizarre, wildlife-attracting, never-heard-of-it-before-but-god-it’s-pretty perennials, gibbering softly. “Don’t mind me,” I said vaguely. “I’m just having a plantgasm…” Whether she was convulsed with amusement or horror, I don’t […]
Veni, vidi…um….veggy? Well, anyway, I came, I saw, I gardened! Did I say I liked lemon balm before? Ignore that. Obviously I was dangerously insane at the time. What I meant to say was that I hate lemon balm with the burning passion of a thousand dying suns, I wish it exterminated, excoriated, exsanguinated, and […]
I am dividing today between art and gardening. It’s statements like that that make me realize my life is wonderful. Granted, the only sunscreen in the house appears to have curdled, and I don’t know if expired sunscreen becomes Deathly Poison or acts like a magnifying glass and thus will result in developing third degree […]
I saw a lizard today! A little skinky thing, which the field guides online say was probably a ground skink. It was very very tiny, only about two inches long with the tail, but I suppose it could have been a baby of some other species. Definitely skinkish though. I’d love to encourage him to […]