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Adoption Certificate for Nellie, the Daily Thread numbat (with thanks to @Catfish)
Melbcat keeps licking herself in the exact same place and has made an itchy hotspotโฆ
I canโt find her cone of shame to stop her and itโs a hassle to buy a bib but I managed to get a baby onesie that might fit over her upper body and stop her accessing it.
Went to the supermarket early to beat the crowds and traffic, but copped the traffic hard on the way back. Absolute chaos out there.
Hired a goget car to do Saturday stuffs. Now waiting for train. It's hawt.
Lost another Wicket.
This could be over by tomorrow afternoon.
Also weโre not even halfway to Indiaโs score.
Iโve hurt my foot. Not sure yet how bad it is but it was a decent one
today is a good day to rest ๐ซ
Far too hot.
There is also about a 50% chance that the air conditioning at work will end up being too cold at some point today, so I have brought in my cardigan.
I knew cardboard would be a terrible canvas (hence attempts at sealing) and only for early practice but wow. Even with the layer of medium underneath it basically drank the paint. Which I knew it would but not to this degree.
Paint rambles
Despite trying to coat thinly and smoothly it was impossible to avoid streaking and brush marks because the acrylic Anko paint actually started drying while I was still working and I had to use much more of it at once to spread it.
What I should have done was mix in some of the clear medium so it wouldnโt dry so fast. It would have been less pigmented which is bad because it took thick layers to even show up, but it wouldnโt have looked so rough. Upside is I wonโt mind that this is disposable. But it took most of both my tubes of yellow. I should have just ordered poster paint.
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Iโve been trying not to feed them as much but one of the magpies approached me when I went out to rinse my brush under an outside tap. Flew right up close and looked at me. It looked like a female maybe. Broken top beak. I nipped inside to grab some of Melbcatโs pet jerky and threw the magpie some crumbled pieces.
Iโm wondering if Iโve done a bad and made the magpies too dependent and trusting of humans. Also worried about whether this bird can eat properly. But Iโm not going to be able to catch it for treatment.
Nah, a one off won't do damage. But it does mean you're unlikely to get swooped
I already had some cardboard Iโd sealed with water based gloss medium, intended for painting on. And a bunch of brushes. So I picked the largest flat brush and painted a thin layer of dark yellow. When thatโs dry Iโll do another and then a few layers of light yellow.
It bugs me to be using up my paints (especially one colour) but having a practical need did lead to actually using it.
I finished The House on the Borderlands yesterday. It was ok. Not as engrossing as The Night Lands but still very imaginative and having all the elements of a gothic novel.
I've read the Poe short stories just a few years back in a lovely edition called Steampunk Poe, so I might skip them for now.
Gormenghast? It's been quite a while since I've read the trilogy, I find the characters and the world engrossing. ๐ Greatly recommend. I think I'll do this, then Poe novels and some HP Lovecraft. These are all rereads of course, oh god I did so much reading in my 20s and 30s,
various renditions of Titus Groan have been sampled, the audible version is best and has been bought ๐
also, art books ๐ฅถ
Market shop complete. I have procured
Bloody hell that temp drop was fast. Must have dropped ten degrees in half an hour or less.
I have stuff to do, made a kinda list. I suppose if work thru it slowly it's still done, eh ๐คทโโ๏ธ
mmkay, two things crossed off list, the searching thru boxes to get european art papers
Big breakfast devoured. Now I don't need to leave my apartment again today
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ugh, trying to do a crossword and the clues just keep moving up and down, forcing me to keep looking for them and messing with my head and eyes
think I'll drop that one
seriously, reminds me of early tv when they would use special effects just because they could even tho they looked shit and had no actual artistic purpose
