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Summer Cuisine
Jun. 23rd, 2008 10:24 amOne of the nice parts of summer is the fresh food available, and we’re especially enjoying this since the Farmer’s Market opened right near our place. We’ve been getting good stuff like cherries and peapods and goat cheese and this weekend some really excellent tea (The lady at the stand tried to give us a little lesson on brewing tea properly and I just laughed and said we had a British friend).
Squeakers has also been enjoying the bounty of summer food, in the form of two bats in the past week alone, and a mole cricket whose legs and head I found on the floor by the TV. Last night I thought to take a short walk at dusk, and although Squeaks had only been out for ten or fifteen minutes I plucked her off the porch and put her back in so she wouldn’t follow me across the street. I didn’t realize until after I put her in that what she had been purring about was a little bat, not even dead yet, face up on the ground. I’m guessing she knocked it out of the air, because I’ve had eyewitnesses, including my parents, tell me she does that with birds. We watched the poor thing gasping for air, nudged it to one side with a leaf, and left it for a short walk. My hope was it was just stunned, and would recover if we left it alone. By the time we got back rigor mortis was setting in and I had to go put it in the trash can. Five minutes later she begged to be let out again, and when she begs to be let out we’re pretty sure the neighbors can all hear it.
She’s up to date on all her shots, she’s almost impossible to keep indoors, and by and large I don’t really mind her hunting, but geez. She doesn’t bring me stuff much anymore, probably because I have this tendency to put it in the trash can, for fear bits of it will be puked up indoors. Wouldn’t be the first time for that, either.
I’m stalled on the digital painting. I think I just took too damn long on it, so I hit a point where all I see is things wrong with it. He got too muscular, and I feel like I’ve lost the fluidity and motion of the pose. Here’s an IP, genuine artistic criticism welcomed, really.
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Ignore the blotches of color beside him though, because those are just for sampling shadow colors, and his antlers obviously need work. It’s the figure itself I’m really having issues with.
Squeakers has also been enjoying the bounty of summer food, in the form of two bats in the past week alone, and a mole cricket whose legs and head I found on the floor by the TV. Last night I thought to take a short walk at dusk, and although Squeaks had only been out for ten or fifteen minutes I plucked her off the porch and put her back in so she wouldn’t follow me across the street. I didn’t realize until after I put her in that what she had been purring about was a little bat, not even dead yet, face up on the ground. I’m guessing she knocked it out of the air, because I’ve had eyewitnesses, including my parents, tell me she does that with birds. We watched the poor thing gasping for air, nudged it to one side with a leaf, and left it for a short walk. My hope was it was just stunned, and would recover if we left it alone. By the time we got back rigor mortis was setting in and I had to go put it in the trash can. Five minutes later she begged to be let out again, and when she begs to be let out we’re pretty sure the neighbors can all hear it.
She’s up to date on all her shots, she’s almost impossible to keep indoors, and by and large I don’t really mind her hunting, but geez. She doesn’t bring me stuff much anymore, probably because I have this tendency to put it in the trash can, for fear bits of it will be puked up indoors. Wouldn’t be the first time for that, either.
I’m stalled on the digital painting. I think I just took too damn long on it, so I hit a point where all I see is things wrong with it. He got too muscular, and I feel like I’ve lost the fluidity and motion of the pose. Here’s an IP, genuine artistic criticism welcomed, really.
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Ignore the blotches of color beside him though, because those are just for sampling shadow colors, and his antlers obviously need work. It’s the figure itself I’m really having issues with.
