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Great Green Monster
Mar. 9th, 2005 09:28 pmWhatever I get for this second painting isn't going to be enough. Talk about fiddly! Half the time I'm waiting for the paint to dry so I can do the next little section. I can't rush it, otherwise I get little dabs of paint being transferred onto a section where they shouldn't be.
[Later] [Much later]
Admit defeat. It just looks too rough. The central part is fine - I really like it. The background sucks. Time for a radical change. I'm going to take scissors and cut out the central bit, mount it on a fresh canvas with a far less fiddly background. Should be dry by tomorrow morning, find a framing shop, get it done in a rush.
DD spent her lunch hour at the War Memorial waiting for Princess Mary and Crown Prince Freddy to come out. had to leave some minutes before they finished their tour and was most miffed. She drove over to the National Museum today, stood beside an obvious target (kid in a wheelchair) and was rewarded by the royal couple coming over "close enough to smell her perfume!"
She's a romantic. Took a few photographs to mark the event. Personally I figure that unless there's a photo of you and the celebrity together, it's just a picture of the celeb and you can get better ones in the glossy mags. Ah well. She posted off copies to her NeoPets guild and gushed contentedly for a while.
Me, I was grappling with my palette knife and an increasingly ugly canvas.
Meetup last night. A few newbies, including a couple of US academics here teaching at ANU. Lecturers in linguistics and ethical metaphysics. Yikes! They brought along some great books, but. We had it at Tilleys and it was a bit less crowded than Starbooks. I thought the coffee was nicer - I showed off my yellow travel mug and yes, it worked well.
Left at 9:30. Kerri was supposed to return home from day trip to Melbourne then, but she'd got an earlier flight and had been dropped off by her boss. She's apparently getting a taste for giving presentations and getting applause. Heh. She should be a software presenter - I've seen people physically melt into a quivering lump when a canned demonstration goes haywire in front of an audience of a thousand propeller-heads. Maybe she shouldn't be...
Anyway, a good time was had by all, books were exchanged, faces put to names, returned home with more books than when I left.
We're driving up to Picton for another meetup - five bookcrossers including CoffeeBron, Calissa, PeggysMum, Unbalanced and me. And Felicia-Fairy from Queensland is visiting Canberra next week. Bookcrossing frenzy!
[Later] [Much later]
Admit defeat. It just looks too rough. The central part is fine - I really like it. The background sucks. Time for a radical change. I'm going to take scissors and cut out the central bit, mount it on a fresh canvas with a far less fiddly background. Should be dry by tomorrow morning, find a framing shop, get it done in a rush.
DD spent her lunch hour at the War Memorial waiting for Princess Mary and Crown Prince Freddy to come out. had to leave some minutes before they finished their tour and was most miffed. She drove over to the National Museum today, stood beside an obvious target (kid in a wheelchair) and was rewarded by the royal couple coming over "close enough to smell her perfume!"
She's a romantic. Took a few photographs to mark the event. Personally I figure that unless there's a photo of you and the celebrity together, it's just a picture of the celeb and you can get better ones in the glossy mags. Ah well. She posted off copies to her NeoPets guild and gushed contentedly for a while.
Me, I was grappling with my palette knife and an increasingly ugly canvas.
Meetup last night. A few newbies, including a couple of US academics here teaching at ANU. Lecturers in linguistics and ethical metaphysics. Yikes! They brought along some great books, but. We had it at Tilleys and it was a bit less crowded than Starbooks. I thought the coffee was nicer - I showed off my yellow travel mug and yes, it worked well.
Left at 9:30. Kerri was supposed to return home from day trip to Melbourne then, but she'd got an earlier flight and had been dropped off by her boss. She's apparently getting a taste for giving presentations and getting applause. Heh. She should be a software presenter - I've seen people physically melt into a quivering lump when a canned demonstration goes haywire in front of an audience of a thousand propeller-heads. Maybe she shouldn't be...
Anyway, a good time was had by all, books were exchanged, faces put to names, returned home with more books than when I left.
We're driving up to Picton for another meetup - five bookcrossers including CoffeeBron, Calissa, PeggysMum, Unbalanced and me. And Felicia-Fairy from Queensland is visiting Canberra next week. Bookcrossing frenzy!
