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12×9 inches, acrylic on canvas.
Based on the poem by Aloysius Bertrand and piano piece by Maurice Ravel of the same name.
(See WIP pictures!)
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I went to the movies alone yesterday! Yay. Well my mom had an appointment and I had to take her there. She was planning on getting lasik but the insurance company didn’t send the thing they were supposed to send so she delayed it until April 6th but she had some preliminary stuff [...]
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9×12 on Canvas board
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Here’s a quick webcam cap of my latest underpainting. It’s 9×12 on canvas board. I first did the whole thing in blue and now I’m beginning to fill in the local color. After that it’ll be detail and texture. I’ll be adjusting the anatomy of the figures and everything as I [...]
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On my two Art History tests I got 113% and 108%. I studied well! It was a hard test actually. I said it already, but it was entirely fill in the blank and essay with 40 questions each. There was also a slew of extra credit questions which explains [...]
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“If you can’t afford it and no one likes what you do… Those are the best reasons to create art.” —Willem Boshoff
Yesterday at my school (Bowie State University) the Smithsonian had a guest speaker from South Africa present his work. If you’re like me, when you hear South African the first name that [...]
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I’m supposed to be working on my research paper and theatre report. Luckily! The internet provides many ways to procrastinate and goof off.
If you’re using Firefox, StumbleUpon is very nice. There’s a version for IE too at Stumbleupon.com, but the Firefox extension is better. Here’s my profile.
Here’s where I’ve been stumbling:
-This [...]
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“It took almost three weeks to do it, but the American Hindus Against Defamation finally prevailed and forced CafePress.com’s vendors to stop selling thongs and boxer shorts that carried images of Hindu deities and symbols.”
Oh please. Now simply displaying symbols on underwear is defamation? God forbid! Oh well. More room for the Jesus [...]
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“Comedy is the antithesis of good taste.” -Mel Brooks. It was on the Today Show this morning. I like that. Not that my writing is particularly funny here is it. Still I like a good comedy.
I installed Google’s Picasa. Is it just me or is this program useless if you have a [...]
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Yesterday was beautiful In the high 60s and low 70s! Today it’s snowing hard with low visibility. It’s not supposed to be a lot of snow in total, but it’s snowing pretty hard with low visibility! It’s going to be like that for a few hours and then end and melt. Since [...]
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