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bright-eyes

3 years ago

I am glad that I cancelled my subscription to World of Cross Stitching. This month's edition is awful. Usually, I tend to find a few good designs in the mag that I want to do, but not in this one. The worst has got to be the 'free' calendar of Teddy Bears and the religious scene.

bright-eyes 3 years ago

Wouldn't mind so much if they mixed the type of designs up, but they decided that this months should be all the dreadful ones. Almost regret that it did actually arrive as it was late coming.

bright-eyes

3 years ago

I've got a playlist together for watercolour tutorials that I want to try out on youtube. I am hoping to do a lot of them in one of the Arteza watercolour sketch books that I bought recently. (You can get three in a pack, and they are available in different sizes.) Most of them are going to be autumn nature related. I have found some watercolour books with animals and nature themed subjects in them that I want to

bright-eyes 3 years ago

work my way through as well since I don't know that much about how you shade/add depth to watercolour pictures. One of the things that I have always loved are the watercolour backgrounds that you get in traditional animation (both cartoon series, and movies.) Ones I particularly like for that are: The Animals of Farthing Wood (obviously!), Watership Down (both the film and the ITV series), The Fox and the Hound,

bright-eyes 3 years ago

The World of David the Gnome, Prince Valiant and a few others. (There are probably others, too, but these are the ones that I remember off the top of my head.) Other watercolour art that I've always admired is Edith Holden's art, and there is a lot to explore on the Biodiversity Heritage Library website. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/

bright-eyes

3 years ago

Today has been the best day in quite a while to take Max out for a longer walk. Looked for conkers, acorns and pine cones, but only found conkers today. I will be using them for some autumn decorating projects later. It's my favourite time of year when it's not too damp, cold and/or gloomy.

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bright-eyes

3 years ago

Oh boy... Was looking at a watercolour tutorial book and some fool gave it a low rating because they painted in the book itself, instead of sketching out the line drawing on watercolour paper. Why? Why? Why?

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bright-eyes

3 years ago

I am cancelling my World of Cross Stitching Subscription. I find that with a lot of these cross stitch magazines that I am not interested in the designs in them (most of the time!), and there only seems to be one or two issues a year that I'm actually interested in. (Usually the September and October issues...) I also have a lot of designs that I want to do anyway in older mags, so there's no point getting them for

bright-eyes 3 years ago

a while.

bright-eyes

3 years ago

This year, I am finally doing Inktober. Had planned to do it in recent years, but something always got in the way. One discovery - although I am normally good at drawing foxes, wolves, etc, I am /no/ good at all drawing bat-eared foxes. I always seem to draw the muzzle too long. Probably because I am used to drawing canids with long muzzles.

birdsandstars 3 years ago

Go right ahead! But avoid the name/hashtag, the creator plagiarized another artist’s work for his book, etc.

bright-eyes 3 years ago

I know about that. He's taken other people's art to sell in his own name who have done stuff for Inktober, in a book, and plagiarized a black artist's work who had written a book on how to do ink drawings because there wasn't one when he started drawing them. I plan on getting the black artist's books one day, but haven't got around to it yet. It's like the creator of National Novel Writing Month (Nano),

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bright-eyes 3 years ago

trying to take credit for all of the stories that everyone who participates in it creates. It's sad and money grabbing for something that's meant to improve people's art/encourage them to draw in the first place.

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bright-eyes

3 years ago

This time last week (at around this time, it's almost 12 am, by the way...) the temperature was a balmy 16 - 20 degrees C, give or take a couple of degrees, but no higher than 20... today, it's 6 degrees C, so no wonder why my arthritis is really acting up. It's not just in my left knee, either, or the muscle pain I get in my upper right leg, but my lower back, my elbows, shoulders, neck, ankles...

bright-eyes 3 years ago

I suspect that Max is responsible in part for my elbows because of when we go out for walks. But it shows just how a drop in about 10 degrees can really effect things.

bright-eyes

3 years ago

Joy oh joy - it's great to have back ache because of lower temperatures...

bright-eyes

3 years ago

I often wonder if the creation of art and literature these days is /all/ about minority political agendas since fantasy and sci-fi writing can't be sci-fi and fantasy writing any more, specialist art supplies like markers are arranged into skin tones instead of colour families, etc.....

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bright-eyes 3 years ago

It's the imposition of politics and people being pushed into writing/painting certain things instead of just doing what they want and which makes the creator happy is what bothers me.

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koshka 3 years ago

Obligatory remark about how you're *cist and literally Hitler because you want to just enjoy art that isn't just a badly masqueraded asinine political agenda with a cast that is a racial/sexual bingo card.

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bright-eyes 3 years ago

Aye, but I don't have plans to brainwash people into helping me murder people on an industrialised scale. I just find it irritating when a company makes a lot of sets for colours, but the main shop that sells them in my country only stock the ones for skintones, manga, anime, etc. and not nature/landscape stuff which is what I create.

bright-eyes

3 years ago

And now, to see if Tesco will deliver... Probably not...

bright-eyes

3 years ago

One of our blinds took a nose dive today and ripped off its fittings, so it can't be put back up. Not surprised, though because it's the third time its fallen down this year. Although I prefer them to curtains, they are more expensive to replace and I don't know if the fittings that are up now will be compatible with a new one, so it's probably just easier to get curtains up instead.

bright-eyes

3 years ago

You can never get any peace around here.

bright-eyes

3 years ago

Today, Max had his vaccinations. Wasn't easy going to the vets, given what's happened over the past few years, but it's over with now and he's fine. Spent the rest of the day doing some artwork. I am doing another Bag End, but it will be finished tomorrow, as I can't really see the markers properly right now as it's dark!

bright-eyes

3 years ago

Got some new art stuff from the works (hopefully!) arriving tomorrow. I'm looking forward to it because I need some new supplies, especially acrylic paints, canvas pads, brushes and watercolour paper. They aren't particularly exciting, (in terms of quality) but I need to replenish them. Not sure what to do with the oil paints I have - I've never really got into the medium because it takes a long time to dry and I -

bright-eyes 3 years ago

don't have the space to store them as they dry.

bright-eyes

3 years ago

One day soon, my desk, art supplies, crafting supplies and cross stitch/sewing supplies will /actually/ be organised.

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bright-eyes

3 years ago

Series 2 of Channel 5's All Creatures started airing this week. Glad it's back, but I can't help but feel that some of the drama and conflict between James and the Aldersons is forced... It's not like that in the books, and as the books are semi autobiographical, I feel that the Channel 5 series doesn't represent it close enough. It's not as respectful as it could be towards the real people and their families that

bright-eyes 3 years ago

depicted. I don't think that it will ever beat the books, or the BBC's series.

bright-eyes

3 years ago

I don't want to go on holiday this year. Too stressful in regards to traveling, especially on a train. Quite honestly, the last time I went near a train, I was ill for a month afterwards, so why would I want to go? There's too many people carrying too much disease.

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bright-eyes

3 years ago

The BBC now have Climate change under it's own news category on their site. Thing is, it's been too little, too late to combat climate change. I acknowledged this in 2018, when we had the 'Beast from the East' snow storm and the summer long heat wave we had that summer. Not sure what can be done now to prevent it from getting out of control as no country took it seriously enough in the 80's and 90's to do something

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bright-eyes 3 years ago

about it. There was a lot of protesting and placard waving, but that leads to nothing if governments don't put regulations in place to do something about it and companies don't voluntarily do something BEFORE governments start to actively regulate. Short term profit and short term GDP gains have always been their main priority.

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bright-eyes

3 years ago

There are times when I can be a bit of a stationary nerd, but these... https://www.cultpens.com/i/q/MD78452/midori-etching-clips

bright-eyes updated Dead Winter's Night (Formally Bright Eyes)

3 years ago

Dead Winter's Night (Formally Bright Eyes)

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