Tara ,'Get It Done'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Wow, Patton was really using Twitter in a big way to make a point. Not sure how I feel about that. but it does fit well into his style of comedy.
ita, I read an article in the New Yorker from the most recent issue. Have you ever been checked or treated for an autoimmune problem? Because some of the symptoms sounded spot-on with some of yours in the article I read.
Was that online? Can you give me a link to it?
Who would be looking out for that? An allergist? I have seen one with respect to this stupidity.
One of the books I just bought is TREASURY OF AMERICAN PEN-AND-INK ILLUSTRATION 1881 TO 1938. I want to eat it, not just ingest the style, I need to work through it, identify the pictures that achieve what I want to work on, which s basically this [link] effect (never mind the linework--that is epic and aspirational, but not practical) where he has the darkest plane in the middle of the picture, and that's often where the centre of focus is.
Those skies are stunning in those drawings. Have you seen any Maynard Dixon? He was a brilliant painter of the West, his works have huge masses of sky and clouds.
Very lovely illos, ita. Techniques of dark-over-light that other illustrative disciplines can incorporate, as well.
You're all out having fun without me, aren't you?
Ha! No, getting ready to go camping. Our plan was to leave at 11. We have nothing packed or down from the attic. I'm going to say if we leave before 1, it's a win.
I'm sitting in the back yard of a house in Las Vegas, waiting for my friends to wake up. And I think the hair medicine was Rogaine.
A work thing blew up yesterday, and I didn't get the call until it was too late to do anything because we were at the spa. Perfect!
Today is weight on the foot day. Two weeks are up (I'm going to pretend I kept weight off the first week--that was impossible). So I'm onto one crutch evaluation. Also experimenting to see what makes it hurt. Sitting with both feet on the floor is not as painful as lying on my right side. I can't pretend to understand.
My sister was convinced to finish the Cornetto trilogy (FUCK, I want a Cornetto right now--it's been decades), so we'll be seeing that matinee instead of The Grandmaster which was the only other movie we agreed on. For some reason (IMAX?) The World's End is $3 cheaper.
I will be spending the next 15 minutes drawing "surprised hands". All very important.
He was a brilliant painter of the West, his works have huge masses of sky and clouds
It's not the content of the pictures that I'm trying to emulate right now, it's the placement of light and dark. Booth using the same medium as me convinces me it's possible, even if, you know, gulfs of talent.
If by "having fun" you mean "deep-cleaning the toaster," then yes.
The crumbs, my god, the crumbs. I could build a loaf of bread. It's a wonder we haven't set the kitchen on fire.
I went slightly out of my head and bought the Stumptown Camp Coffee kit [link] (the grinder fits inside the aeropress for compact packing! It's like a little emergency kit that is entirely about coffee. I could not resist.) so I have been drinking coffee out of a tin cup this morning and it is SO GOOD! I didn't even grind it by hand since I still have pre-ground from last week, really it's just a different cup, but so satisfying.