14°C,

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that painting is hideous! The Sprite one I mean. Last night I added a much thicker layer of frotte to give the face some body, also started to blur the edges. Note to oneself- get radical with it- temple-forehead-nose is grossly underdeveloped. I hate paintings at this stage; usually doing a quick A4 picture diminishes this uncomfortable feeling.

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Fireworks are bothering Bessie. She hid behind my legs today on our walk when one went off (at quite a distance). She sat trembling. That dog really hates fireworks.

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I need a holiday.

 

17°, no weather, just air that is wet, but barely rains, it just makes the road wet where it rubs on the ground like a slightly damp dishcloth- a bit less smelly though..

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Everybody seems to be ill.

 

 

 

Oh yes, and there’s a dinosaur eating a building behind my house.

 

What a day- thunder lightning and lots of lovely rain. We may have seen mammatus clouds ( hope I spelt that properly). Here’s a site about them: Hastings

It’s so hot & close now that I have the fan on in here.

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Painting: it’s a re-work of the pencil sharpener, and is looking good so far.

Afterburn is getting easier- still times when changes are made to parameters and it results in a totally different effect. I’m trying to get a good contrial from an aircraft mesh, sometimes it looks OK, then after what seems like a subtle change- something completely different result renders. Clearly some parameters are more sensitive than others. I guess in a studio, there will be specialists who work this plugin.

 

 

 

Further reading: On this day in history ( from the History Channel)

 

 

In a conversation I was asked

It seems that most people use it socially. If you use messenger & contacts say "hi what have you been up to?", you tell them, then the next person comes on line & asks the same question. You could write in here the day’s story, you can save yourself the trouble of repeating yourself, AND they are more likely to ask a more interesting question to do with your entry. You know.. they might therefore ask – "how exactly did you get the dog off the roof & is he scared of you now?" So use your blog to fill people in.

 

London bombings and bicycles – read more

 

 

Only drawn up that new painting onto the canvas. Then got distracted when I noticed some wrapped picture frames in the corner bought ages ago. It looks very nice but the frame is glazed, that means it can’t face anything that will give a strong reflection- otherwise you can’t see the picture. Done two frmaes today, they do look a bit odd with dark pictures in them. Perhaps I should get some wood stain. There are about six more here that are worth putting up.

 

 

 

 

Something remarkable happened today. I opened msn messenger and it logged in successfully without needing to click the "Log in" button. Blimey!