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Bet you thought I've forgotten about the zine, didn't you? I haven't. I just haven't done any work on it for a while (where the hell has the time gone, eh?)
I am working on it, though (lack of space to Do Stuff means schlepping printers/scanners/etc around, and then cat dodging. YAY).
Talking of things I'm selling, both my redbubble and big cartel stores have been updated (and there's more to go in the RB shop this coming week).
Also a reminder that if you can't pay for anything in a chunk, I am totally willing to work out a payment plan with you :)
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I am in a Maggie Stiefvater shaped hole. I know.
There's five of her books in the house at the moment, and I own three of them. I got The Raven Boys out from the library again to reread because, as I mentioned to Dingsi a few days ago, I wanted to check I still liked it (I hope so. I am waiting for The Raven King, and it's not going to be out till the end of APRIL now). I think I do, given flicking through it again, I nearly started reading from that point. (I almost started reading Linger at a random point when I flicked through that, so I assume this is a good sign?)
I also got The Scorpio Races out, because apparently it's OK? (Unless you read all the bad reviews on Goodreads, like I did last night. In which case, it's boring, her two protags sound alike, and nothing happens until right at the end).
I do think I'll probably end up reading everything she's written. I'm excited for the book she's writing about the all girl street racing gang, in spite of not being the slightest bit interested in cars. (I lie a little - I've always liked racing games, and I was into Formula One in my late teens/early twenties, but I don't nerd about cars like she does. I suppose I'm more interested in them when I'm not directly involved with them). And I dunno, she's kind of grown on me.
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I'm determined that I'm going to get better at using coloured pencils this year (and also improve my watercolour skills, but that's overlap from last year, so it doesn't count). So I guess I have a goal for this year after all.
I buy coloured pencils a lot. If I see art supplies, and there are coloured pencils, I will want to buy them. I like using them a lot, but I've never been very good with them (mainly because when I was determined to teach myself art, there were no books about using them, and when I had internet, I'd graduated to paint, and didn't think about pencils). I didn't learn about using a white pencil to burnish colours until 2009. But now there are books (which is where I learnt about the burnishing), and tutorials on the internet, and the other day I learnt about using solvents on them.
I have a bottle of turps, somewhere, which I bought when I fancied oil painting (I never did any in the end, and so it remains unopened). I can't get to it, which is probably a good job, because I think turps and a cat are a bad mixture. Also I'm done with accidentally snorting weird substances (I spend a lot of my teens drawing on things with permanent markers which, back in the nineties, weren't solvent free). Apparently you can use baby oil to achieve the same effect, although it's not archival. But I'm not bothered about that, because ninety percent of my work is not archival (not on purpose, but it's only become a thing I've been aware of in the last ten or so years). So I'm going to have a mess about, and see what happens.
I am working on it, though (lack of space to Do Stuff means schlepping printers/scanners/etc around, and then cat dodging. YAY).
Talking of things I'm selling, both my redbubble and big cartel stores have been updated (and there's more to go in the RB shop this coming week).
Also a reminder that if you can't pay for anything in a chunk, I am totally willing to work out a payment plan with you :)
~
I am in a Maggie Stiefvater shaped hole. I know.
There's five of her books in the house at the moment, and I own three of them. I got The Raven Boys out from the library again to reread because, as I mentioned to Dingsi a few days ago, I wanted to check I still liked it (I hope so. I am waiting for The Raven King, and it's not going to be out till the end of APRIL now). I think I do, given flicking through it again, I nearly started reading from that point. (I almost started reading Linger at a random point when I flicked through that, so I assume this is a good sign?)
I also got The Scorpio Races out, because apparently it's OK? (Unless you read all the bad reviews on Goodreads, like I did last night. In which case, it's boring, her two protags sound alike, and nothing happens until right at the end).
I do think I'll probably end up reading everything she's written. I'm excited for the book she's writing about the all girl street racing gang, in spite of not being the slightest bit interested in cars. (I lie a little - I've always liked racing games, and I was into Formula One in my late teens/early twenties, but I don't nerd about cars like she does. I suppose I'm more interested in them when I'm not directly involved with them). And I dunno, she's kind of grown on me.
~
I'm determined that I'm going to get better at using coloured pencils this year (and also improve my watercolour skills, but that's overlap from last year, so it doesn't count). So I guess I have a goal for this year after all.
I buy coloured pencils a lot. If I see art supplies, and there are coloured pencils, I will want to buy them. I like using them a lot, but I've never been very good with them (mainly because when I was determined to teach myself art, there were no books about using them, and when I had internet, I'd graduated to paint, and didn't think about pencils). I didn't learn about using a white pencil to burnish colours until 2009. But now there are books (which is where I learnt about the burnishing), and tutorials on the internet, and the other day I learnt about using solvents on them.
I have a bottle of turps, somewhere, which I bought when I fancied oil painting (I never did any in the end, and so it remains unopened). I can't get to it, which is probably a good job, because I think turps and a cat are a bad mixture. Also I'm done with accidentally snorting weird substances (I spend a lot of my teens drawing on things with permanent markers which, back in the nineties, weren't solvent free). Apparently you can use baby oil to achieve the same effect, although it's not archival. But I'm not bothered about that, because ninety percent of my work is not archival (not on purpose, but it's only become a thing I've been aware of in the last ten or so years). So I'm going to have a mess about, and see what happens.