Oh yeah, time for the next draft recursion photo...


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At last, time and weather allowed me to take my writing rig outdoors! The yard is hitting its peak of lush, extravagant beauty. I sat and marvelled amid the drifting fragrance of wisteria and white lilacs.

Whether I work indoors or outdoors, however, the question remains the same: where is it exactly that I think I'm going to sit?

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Another odd week in my google search history (the bold ones were writing related):

charnel
Malayan water monitor
kick ass
radhe
grantor
lapis nugget
paraskevi
dundas
domesday book
canine urban search
seckel pear
Rauschenberg
scary monsters
world's tallest man
marzipan demon pig zombie (WHAT HAS BEEN SEEN CANNOT BE UNSEEN)

I found these luscious tulips on a clearance rack...


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A few weeks ago I did a demo at work trying out the Pentel Pocket Brush Pen and the Pentel Hybrid Technica fine point pens. I drew these big cats using a National Geographic poster as a reference. Since I was just experimenting, I didn't pencil anything first.

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Fans of Bettie Page should check out the website of model and fashionista Vintage Vandalizm. Va-va-voom!

http://vintagevandalizm.com/2012/01/15/v-v-models-mode-merr-2012-collection/


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This was a more recent effort (February). It is definitely a study, not a finished painting. Though I don't consider it entirely successful, it did teach me some useful things.


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I did this painting last August, just hadn't gotten around to scanning and posting it. I was camping on the south McKenzie for a long enough stint that I could spend a few hours doing a real plein aire painting. I had been pondering for a while that one's programmed instinct is to depict water as blue--but the river up there isn't blue at all. ( Read more... )

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Another one of those days when it strikes me that my google searches have been a little diverse. They have included reed instruments, Japanese porcelain, word etymologies, banjo playing methods, cola ingredients, smart card readers, and the history of ska, punk, new wave and related musical genres ( Read more... )