stupid little things…

During the democratic convention coverage last night I sat and did a little more with my canvases.  I painted a new one black. I think I might implement my jellyfish design on it. I like the idea of black coming through. I put another layer of pink and clear on top of the purpley canvas, darkened the edges of the angelfish, as well as added slight coloring changes to enhance later. And my brown canvas will have a cute sparrow or bluebird on it when I’m done. Wee!!

And thank goodness for GOJO or else I’d have paint stains all over myself! I have a painting of a Puffin upstairs on the wall that I did when I was in 11th grade (I think.) I might get some giclee prints of it made, and some giclee aceo’s as well.. As well as get fine art prints made of my printmaking designs to sell, since original prints haven’t seemed to sell so well.

(I meant to post this last week, but my image uploader on WP wasn’t working. So after some troubleshooting - I had to deactivate one of the plug-ins - I got my media uploader to work correctly.)

The other week I went out and bought a stack of mini canvases to play with my paintstiks on. Michael’s was having a sale so I bought around 6 small, 3-4 med, and a stack of 6 5×7 and 8×10 canvas boards. I then proceeded to paint up two of the little ones with a base background coat. and I did some more work on the angelfish I’m doing. It’s slow-going but you can see the change.

I don’t know what I’m going to paint on the other canvases but we’ll see!

So my foster dog chewed up my sandals. My best sandals. *cry*
I went out to purchase some new ones, having a feeling I wouldn’t find much because it’s end of season and on top of that, I hate the thingie that goes between your toes. Ow. Yuck! I hate that toe thingie!

Whilst browsing around DSW I came upon some nice RocketDogs I got for cheap because of clearance! They’re real comfy, and just looking at them is sort of inspiring. It makes me want to buy more, and possibly investigate those slip on Vans.

On another note, I set up yet another etsy alchemy request to draw up my latest tattoo design. I’m never happy enough with my own work to do it myself, unfortunately. That makes me cry on the inside sometimes.

Also I changed the look of this blog even though nobody will notice. I got bored with the other look. But now that i updated my versions of stuff my ljxp and image embed-er aren’t working right! BLARG.

I can’t wait to doodle on my canvases some more with my oils. I’m gonna go buy more mini-canvases tonight. Wee!

I’ve never been too good at painting, but since I got a bunch of Shiva oil paint sticks a while ago I decided to mess around on some canvases I had lying around. I messed around a bit but since it takes a while for the paints to dry I only ended up with a base coat. haha We’ll see what happens with these.

I dropped out of the exchange. LAME!!!

I’ll still do the print. I’m actually sort of glad that I dropped out. This way I can produce the print using lithography like I like to and take my time. It will look good. I think I will try to participate in an exchange again someday, but I think next time I wont sign up until I actually have it designed and ready to print. That’s probably a wise move.

Anyway, this is what it is supposed to look like:

My zodiac has already taken a back seat to laziness, unfortunately.