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I feel like I've been doing a lot of whining here lately, so here's some slightly more cheery news:
1. My mom's office regularly has summer interns, who need temporary housing, and she's given the people in charge of coordinating these things my info. A summer grad student intern would be a perfect renter for my space -- all I'd have to do is get it minimally furnished, which basically means begging my parents for stuff from one of their guest bedrooms, which they've pretty much already agreed to.
And she emailed me! YAY!
2. I made actual factual progress on my mailbox last weekend. I feel kind of idiotic about it, because it was one of those art lightbulb moments where you realize you've been doing it all wrong for the last day/week/month/year, and doing it right takes... fifteen minutes. STILL, progress!
Basically, I was trying to work up the same super-rich color layering that I do for my Sheep in Space, which require even painting of translucent colors, and I was finding the size of the thing plus the quicker-drying properties of the medium I'm using (to make it adhere to the metal) really, really annoying. I just couldn't get it even, and it took FOREVER. Adding drying retarder just made it all MORE translucent. Then this weekend I remembered that I have a 1 inch sash brush -- a house painting brush -- and I took my new wet palette, dumped a TON of paint on there, and loaded up. I'd been using a 3/4 inch art brush, but the giant reservoir in the housepainting brush means it delivers a lot of paint at once, which means it stays WET, and suddenly I had the final color. In ten minutes. After painstakingly spending an hour doing a few inches at a time.
I could feel the Walrus* standing over my shoulder, laughing at me, but it was totally worth it. I got it all so-deep-it-looks-black**, repainted Mars, and added the bottom half of Marvin the Martian (top half to come. I got distracted by dinner).
3. One of my good neighbors wants to rebuild the fence between our lots, and while it's a bit legally complicated (technically it's in the alley right of way), it'd be pretty cool to have a section of the fence done, and she's easy to get along with and I imagine will be fun to work with.
4. I've finally been writing, albeit in a one step forward two steps back kind of way.
*The Walrus was my uni painting teacher, and he was a big proponent of big brushes. If he knew he'd give me so much crap for trying to do things the hard, stupid way.
**Some people would have just painted it black, but I say FAH!
1. My mom's office regularly has summer interns, who need temporary housing, and she's given the people in charge of coordinating these things my info. A summer grad student intern would be a perfect renter for my space -- all I'd have to do is get it minimally furnished, which basically means begging my parents for stuff from one of their guest bedrooms, which they've pretty much already agreed to.
And she emailed me! YAY!
2. I made actual factual progress on my mailbox last weekend. I feel kind of idiotic about it, because it was one of those art lightbulb moments where you realize you've been doing it all wrong for the last day/week/month/year, and doing it right takes... fifteen minutes. STILL, progress!
Basically, I was trying to work up the same super-rich color layering that I do for my Sheep in Space, which require even painting of translucent colors, and I was finding the size of the thing plus the quicker-drying properties of the medium I'm using (to make it adhere to the metal) really, really annoying. I just couldn't get it even, and it took FOREVER. Adding drying retarder just made it all MORE translucent. Then this weekend I remembered that I have a 1 inch sash brush -- a house painting brush -- and I took my new wet palette, dumped a TON of paint on there, and loaded up. I'd been using a 3/4 inch art brush, but the giant reservoir in the housepainting brush means it delivers a lot of paint at once, which means it stays WET, and suddenly I had the final color. In ten minutes. After painstakingly spending an hour doing a few inches at a time.
I could feel the Walrus* standing over my shoulder, laughing at me, but it was totally worth it. I got it all so-deep-it-looks-black**, repainted Mars, and added the bottom half of Marvin the Martian (top half to come. I got distracted by dinner).
3. One of my good neighbors wants to rebuild the fence between our lots, and while it's a bit legally complicated (technically it's in the alley right of way), it'd be pretty cool to have a section of the fence done, and she's easy to get along with and I imagine will be fun to work with.
4. I've finally been writing, albeit in a one step forward two steps back kind of way.
*The Walrus was my uni painting teacher, and he was a big proponent of big brushes. If he knew he'd give me so much crap for trying to do things the hard, stupid way.
**Some people would have just painted it black, but I say FAH!
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Date: 2013-04-10 05:57 pm (UTC)From:Stasia
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