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Now the memories are on the wall
I made a thing.
Considering I have artist friends who fart out better art than I can even conceptualize, I harbor no delusions of this actually being decent. The wobbly lines everywhere probably make most people ill. But I'm really happy to have painted a thing that I can actually hang up in the apartment and say it's mine.
Next time - bigger canvas and a much, much less fine and precise subject inspiration. (The card, btw, is the Major Arcana 21, The World, from a flower-based French tarot card set that K gave me <3 )
Acryllic painting was actually better than I expected - I didn't realize that the quick-drying nature of acryllics actually allow you to paint over mistakes. Like, I fucked up the green lines a few times, but bam, could splat some white paint over it and try again.
In other news, I've actually had a super-crazy social calendar recently. Just this weekend I actually went to a party, volunteered at an Oktoberfest (pulling Sam Adams - my hands smelled noxious for a while afterwards), and a book club. I have three board game group meetings this week, a Game of Thrones D&D session tomorrow*, plus planning for the company Halloween thing. It's different because usually I have zero social calendar at all, but obviously I'm driving in the 'too much stuff' direction and will have to come back to center eventually.
A nice thing is that I've started going to the gym every morning for a 40 minute workout, and then going into work. I've found that I have more energy at the workout and in work afterwards as opposed to the afternoon workouts. This is in the hope I lose some weight so I might reasonably be able to hack together a Miraculous Ladybug cosplay next year (it is a full body-suit thing and I don't want to put other people through undue distress.)
*I've actually been wanting to do a D&D style campaign for a long time now, but had trouble finding a group I wanted to be with. This GoT group is on the newb side, but since I'm a newb too, that's cool. I'm playing a septon on a secret mission, played by Jeremy Irons and he will be so badass nobody can handle it.
Considering I have artist friends who fart out better art than I can even conceptualize, I harbor no delusions of this actually being decent. The wobbly lines everywhere probably make most people ill. But I'm really happy to have painted a thing that I can actually hang up in the apartment and say it's mine.
Next time - bigger canvas and a much, much less fine and precise subject inspiration. (The card, btw, is the Major Arcana 21, The World, from a flower-based French tarot card set that K gave me <3 )
Acryllic painting was actually better than I expected - I didn't realize that the quick-drying nature of acryllics actually allow you to paint over mistakes. Like, I fucked up the green lines a few times, but bam, could splat some white paint over it and try again.
In other news, I've actually had a super-crazy social calendar recently. Just this weekend I actually went to a party, volunteered at an Oktoberfest (pulling Sam Adams - my hands smelled noxious for a while afterwards), and a book club. I have three board game group meetings this week, a Game of Thrones D&D session tomorrow*, plus planning for the company Halloween thing. It's different because usually I have zero social calendar at all, but obviously I'm driving in the 'too much stuff' direction and will have to come back to center eventually.
A nice thing is that I've started going to the gym every morning for a 40 minute workout, and then going into work. I've found that I have more energy at the workout and in work afterwards as opposed to the afternoon workouts. This is in the hope I lose some weight so I might reasonably be able to hack together a Miraculous Ladybug cosplay next year (it is a full body-suit thing and I don't want to put other people through undue distress.)
*I've actually been wanting to do a D&D style campaign for a long time now, but had trouble finding a group I wanted to be with. This GoT group is on the newb side, but since I'm a newb too, that's cool. I'm playing a septon on a secret mission, played by Jeremy Irons and he will be so badass nobody can handle it.
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If you're worried about line wiggles, you can safely color over dried acrylic paint with colored pencils, or by dabbing watered-down paint to a ruling pen, but I think your work looks nice the way it is.
(If you do make your work mixed-media, it's a little more complicated to protect it with sealant, but it can be done: http://blog.jacksonsart.co.uk/2011/03/21/stabilising-drawings-on-top-of-acrylic-paint/)
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What sort of exercises do you do? And do you bring a change of clothes and then shower afterwards, or do you just bring the change of clothes? I'm trying to figure out if I could fit a morning workout into my schedule, and how much earlier I would have to get up to make it work. XD
ALSO, I think it's a lovely picture! <3 The colors are really nice, and I bet it's gonna look awesome on your wall. :D
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I do cardio on about 3 days a week (I've taken to the elliptical machine lately, since that's the most calories burnt with the least stress on my knees), and I just started up a weight training thing on the other two days. And yeah, I have a change of clothing, but I really only do the shower for the cardio days.
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