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1. I woke up yesterday to discover it had snowed a fair bit! Nothing epic, but more snow than we've had all winter so far. And then it rained for most of the day, so there's still snow, but less of it than there was this time yesterday.

2. I decided against writing an angry thing about The Medium. I'm less angry about it now, though I am still angry in general at the devs for being shitty (and plagiarists! it turns out! bobvids did a video about their previous plagiarising and, while I think he was stretching on a couple of points, it's certainly an interesting watch).

3. I am going full tilt into non-representational (abstract???) art at the moment. This is nothing new, really, it comes and goes. I always feel slightly uncomfortable about it, but that's issues to do with how I think about art than anything else. But I decided a few days(?)/weeks(?)/who even knows any more! ago that I was going to embrace it and just make the stuff as long as I was enjoying it. And I am.

4. Relatedly, I am going to have a crack at acrylic paint pouring. I've been vaguely interested in it for a while, but always put off by the fact that you "need" medium and silicone oil, and the pouring medium is not cheap! Also you don't need the oil, it's only for if you want cells in your pour, and you might not want that!

But anyway, I watched a video the other day that used water and washing up liquid and worked pretty much as well! I don't know what pouring medium is made from, but you use water to let down acrylic paint anyway, so why couldn't you just use that?? And it turns out you totally can! So that's what I'm going to do, because I don't even know if I'm going to like this anyway. (I think I probably will; the only problem is space to let the paintings dry).

(You can also use PVA glue as a pouring medium, and I also have that, so that's an option too!)

5. I don't have a #5, so I'm going to go and agonise over which of these art-related books I want to buy with the remains of my Xmas money.