Got:pen

Now the tablet itself is playing up, after all that fuss too.
Anyway, here is a small sample of a doodle drawn with it a few months ago when it was working well.

Ironically it’s this tablet that got me into oil painting, I bought it when I bought Corel Painter 8, but real paint and brushes are easier and more effective them computer paintined pictures. the picture below was made in Alias’ Sketchbook – which is an outstnading program that very closely simulates the feel of real pencils & paper.

For a laugh

Here’s a little doodle in oil I did yesterday – just for fun. It’s like an experiment to get to know how these two colours work.

Then:resumed work on the teapot head today, this picture is certainly having a long gestation period. Somehow it didn’t really get going tonight, probably because my concentration has run out. I like this picture a lot, so no risk of abandoning it.

finally- to finish a beautiful site to go to next:
This is the best day of your life

Pthalio Blue + Rose Madder

Didn’t think it would be that different to titanium white! It’s going to be great for glazing and maybe frottes.
Anyway, tried out a puzzle I set myself this evening, build a whole painting with Rose madder and pthalio blue, mind you choosing whites got distracting, – ended up with Titanium and zinc whites on the palette  ( and the canvas paper).

Dogs at the door
They are social animals, they bring offerings to greet you as you arrive home. They announce your arrival with a few barks but then go quiet while they search for something to offer as you open the door. Usually it’s a stuffed fur-fabric sheep, or an orangotang. They however, feel rent by a terrible dilemma. The toy is theirs, and you aren’t going to get it, it’s ok for you to chase them for it, but you ain’t going to get it! Yet still that same toy is the offering.

While caught up with this, the dog paces on the spot, wagging and looking sideways at you…

read on

Trying to work out how to chnage the formatting on my posts, here’s a clue- you have to create a link-bar button, it looks like it contains a little javascript which releases a few extra features like founts and backgrounds. Now you need good access to a html code reference.

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HTML How to

Using HTML/CSS in MSN spaces is extremely limited, so far ives found out that iframes, forms, padding, and linked css do not work.  But I am sure there is a use for the things that you can use, or someone will find a use;

1. Open a entry

2. Click edit it (probably best you save this in your favourites)

3. Check the tick box on the bottom of the entry box named ‘use HTML to create your page’

You will now beable to see the raw HTML, bar the start and end tags of a typical HTML document.

 

Get-up:05:30

Saturday: wake at 5:00 am, have a lie-in until half-past, then decide to chop down a tree that has partly died. It’s a lilac tree, some branches have died off leaving others appearing fine. Didn’t really have the right tools, so used a small hatchet and a hand-saw. It’s fun to do , but may hands are rather shakey now.

New:Albums
Kristin Hersch- grotto
Tricky- Nearly God
Tricky- Maxinquay
Dead Can Dance- Within the realm of a dying sun

Some of the above are chosen because they sounded promising on p2p download copies. Now I have the CDs they have been deleted. they are soo much richer and more detailed sounding than those fuzzy/hazy mp3 versions. It’s rather hard to see how some can claim that mp3 (and WMAs) can be almost as good as CD, ridiculous. The sound from the speakers just puts the lie to that myth, don’t people care that they are so far away from the real sound of music?

Painting:progress

Tempted to leave the background in dry looking spirit+paint and work up the forground in linseed. need to re-think the way I use yellow, specifically Cadmium yellow is causing problems when it’s near any blue or green. Chrome yellow doesn’t seem to discolour in the same way.