Fuzzydragons

For the last 2 days I have done nothing but watch Youtube videos and play Civilization 5, and you know I am really sick when I don't get any art done :p I did manage before I got sick to get a small part of this etching done, (technically drypoint I know, but more people know what an etching is then what drypoint means). I want to try to get this finished in the next few days *crosses fingers*

Prints Finished the gulls. Pretty happy with how they turned out, simple but it works :) Watercolours work better for me it seems when I don't focus on every detail and just concentrate on the colours.

This weeks word is, dook :) Last weeks word, bunnet , is a cap(hat)

  Might still need to darken some areas that look a little flat, but going to put it away for a few days before I change anything.   I already did this picture in coloured pencils, but was never 100% happy with it, so I thought why not try an etching since I still like the photo. Needs work, but really liking how its looking. Better build a press soon, going to have a lot of plates to print :p

Could it be called a colony when there are only 3??

A very startled looking gull :p Considering I was having a horrible time with art for awhile there, its not bad :)

Slowly adding more colour to the gull :) I know a lot of people that call them flying rats, and at a lot of the places I grew up they were called shit hawks :p Yes, they can be a pain in many ways, (stealing fries and ice cream from people), but I've always liked them. Then again I like birds of all kinds.

Back to Canadians :) I am going to try to post a few more Canadian singers/bands, but my mind is drawing a blank :p Going to have to go find a list and go over what I know from it.

things are going Ok with this. I tend to be very very loose with watercolours, which is odd because I am a detail freak when it comes to pencils :p With watercolours I prefer the pans rather then using tubes of paint. Mostly because I find I can transport the pans easier and I tend not to make a huge mess like I can do with tubes of paint. I need more colours tho, you can never have too many :p Hurry up student loan payment, (not until next month :/)

  This weeks word is, bunnet Last weeks word, roup , is an auction. 

well sort of. Drawing lineart isn't the issue. The problems start when I either try to fill in the image :/ *crossing fingers* that tomorrow I manage to get some colour down on this. And I think I am determined to end up back in A&E. 1. Hit my face with a shelf board on Sunday, swelled and bruised but the doctors saw me today and said thats normal for anyone that got hit with a shelf :p and the jaw joint is fine so that is good. 2. Dropped the corner of a drawing board on my foot today...ow 3. A sewing needle got lodged in my foot half an inch...ow Hoping nothing happens tomorrow :p

Well, I don't think I would call this past week an art slump, but nothing I try to do seems to be turning out right. I have had to start and stop so many drawings its not funny. This didn't turn out either, way too out of practice drawing men. I used ink pens again tho, and I do like the effect you get when you wet them, so will keep experimenting and trying out different papers with them.

  This weeks word is roup Last weeks word, stour is dust. :) stourstour stour stour

  Lineart for a lino cut :) I want to add more then one colour to the print, but I really have no luck when it comes to reduction printing. I know all about registration, but printing in many colours just never works for me. Maybe I am just supposed to stick to etching lol hmmm 2 or more colours in etching?...

  Half done :) The paper isn't grey, but I actually like the way it looks, might have to find grey paper to draw on. At the beginning of the week I had a migraine from hell :/ Made it extremely hard to do anything and next time my vision gets all fuzzy/flashy, I will pump pain killers to try to stop or slow the migraine down. Haven't had a migraine that bad for a long time, not sure if its stress or chocolate. And I keep telling myself, no more chocolate, but I never listen to myself :p but this time I have to listen to myself because that was bloody painful. Chocolate taste so much better here then in Canada tho lol

I really wanted to get the basic etching done on this today so that I could then go back and add more shading where needed, but my hand went numb. And its probably not a good idea to use a sharp pointy object when you can't feel anything past your wrist :p Hopefully get it finished tomorrow, and also I hope to have Bosse done :)

wordlesswednesday5 , a photo by fuzzydragons on Flickr.

Just messing around with water-soluble pens, looks like a really short muzzled mule :p I really like the look and will def. be sketching like this more.

No, Sky didn't roll in any more fox pop and thankfully you don't get Skunks here, but I had forgotten how much masking fluid smells :p Haven't used it for awhile and since I will probably use it for some sections on a painting for college, thought I should play around before I have to use it for something important. So this is just a small test piece, trying out colour combinations at the same time. Might as well kill 2 birds with one stone, need to look up where that phrase comes from. 

  This weeks word is: 1.stour Last weeks word, cranachan , is a dessert made from whipped cream, honey and toasted oatmeal.

5 books read in the month of February, not bad, but not that good. I def. read more in the summer when I can sit outside in the sun and zone out reading :) Raven's Tears by Michael Matson My rating: 2 of 5 stars Let me start off by saying I have no problem with erotic sex scenes in a book, if that is one way to show how two people feel about each other, its not a problem, or even just a sex scene just to try to spice up a story is fine. The problem I have is when I find the scenes more funny then sexy. When they read like badly written fan fiction, the scenes tend to distract you from the rest of the story, rather then entice. I actually really enjoyed the theft part of the story a lot, that was well written and interesting. Reading about the actual theft was great and fast paced. Like a lot of thefts in stories, you know how an item was stolen, the interesting part is reading how the story characters figure out the theft. It was a good idea, and added a nice little twis...