Had fun skating with Nefarious and her friend, but I think tomorrow we’ll go on our own so we can go a lot faster. Her friend was just learning, so I think Nefarious felt a little neglected because I had to focus most of my attention on keeping her friend going and growing.
They got to watch the Zamboni before we left…
PS. Check out yesterday’s doodle.
Other than that, I had a nice coffee with an old friend, then got a phone call from another old friend about a new body modification TV show that I might take some involvement with, and finally I bumped into another long-time-no-see friend across the street where he was visiting someone before moving out to Victoria. The mostly unexpected trifecta of friends or something.
In the progression of my leg, I noticed the latest disgusting step last night and confirmed it again today… The skin has become like “plasticine”, and can be deformed as such. If I press on it with my finger, it sinks in and just stays there as a depression about 1/4″ deep. Totally revolting. There’s a real sense of nausea and “empty disgust” associated with a lot of what’s going on.
And a quick update on that “A Galvanized Corpse” painting that I knocked out… As you can see I changed the sky and a few other things. Other people seem to like this one more than I do. Anyway, I’m having trouble keeping my eyes open… Time to watch The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Heroes, drink a jug of Tang, and crash out for the day.
Today is going to be a great day. There’s a beautiful fluffy snowfall that will give us more than enough snow for sledding, and after school I’m picking up Nefarious and a friend of hers and we’re all going to go skating at the Natrel rink down on the waterfront. I’m so ecstatic that the winter season seems to have finally started up for real. I also got delicious new cereal and am having coffee with an old friend this afternoon, so an all-in-all ace day.
I’ll wrap this painting below up soon (I am going to paint a new, lighter sky done and then some), and I think I’m going to take a break from this sort of painting and do a self-portrait next. Oh, and since people have asked about my paintings on shirts, I wanted to mention that on the gallery page everything is available at high resolution, and they’re released under a Creative Commons license which permits you to make shirts and so on (for example at Zazzle or CafePress).
I wasn’t sold on the original design, so I redid the shirt for the Peanut or Duck site…
My painting has most of its undercoat done. It has a long way to go:
Nefarious’s project is much nicer:
Saturday, December 6, 2008
I read this ridiculous scare article about energy drinks, going on and on about how dangerous it is for kids to be drinking things like Red Bull due to the caffeine content. The text is hilarious — I mean, “buzz in a bottle that supercharges the MySpace.com crowd?” Bahahahahaha. Of course, in the middle of all this foolishness is a chart admitting that RedBull has less than half the caffeine of a cup of coffee… Good going Readers Digest… You almost had me.
I also sketched out a new painting… another quick/fun piece, this time based on an 1836 newspaper editorial illustration titled “A Galvanized Corpse“. It’s a bit silly, but I’m working to get my speed up so I can take on this children’s book illustration project. I’d considered other, faster mediums, or even digital, but I think I will try to stick to treated acrylics.
Other than that, we had trapeze class again today, and Nefarious shone as always… I suspect that all parents think this to some extent, but I really believe that she’ll be able to do anything she wants with her life. She’s got the raw natural talent and gifts to be able to do it, and I work really hard to make sure she has the foundation and support to explore all of her interests.
