Monthly Archives: July 2024

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It’s that time once again!

You might be thinking it’s too soon! It can’t possibly be that time. But here in Tucson, school starts in August. To be completely accurate, it begins tomorrow, August 1.

I didn’t have any inspiration when I walked in the building, but I noticed that someone had chucked a perfectly good bit of fancy paper in the recycling bin. I am forever pulling things out of recycling, sometimes because they are not recyclable, and sometimes because they are reusable by me.

So I got started with the background and the lettering and this pretty foiled paper was just winking at me. Water…ducks…rain…pun. Voila! Plus we’re still inside the monsoon.

Took about 5½ hours total but I stopped for a lot of conversation. Also the air conditioning has been broken since last May and it was 84° in there, which slows you down. I had a lot of conversations about that.

5 Silver Paper Feathers

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I’m very satisfied with this project, which took about 90 minutes. (It’s not quite done; the feathers aren’t attached to the hat yet.)

The Coyote and I are going to a goth masquerade ball and I have a very cool outfit put together but it seemed like I should add a top hat to match him and to enby it up. So he ordered me one, but it turned out to be a large, when my head is extra small. And it took forever to come and when it got here I was not impressed with the little feather that came with it.

Obviously it needed a big silver feather! Obviously there were some good ones on Etsy but none that could be delivered before the ball, which was annoying until it hit me that I could easily make paper feathers with materials already in my workshop. Just 3 kinds of sparkly metallic specialty paper and matte medium.

To be extra fancy I sharpened the scissors on a whetstone before beginning.

So here it is. And I will be the most magical dragon at the ball. Although I still have to figure out how to attach my mask to my glasses. Because I went to this masquerade last year in a different mask and I couldn’t see a thing all night. The new one is lace and can probably be tied on.

Another Rainbow Unicorn Sloth

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The person who commission me to create this wild interior van wrap asked me to create some window clings, “so my van looks like not my parents’ van.” And thus the rainbow slothicorn rides again. I had a lot of fun with it. Obviously. It took me way longer than I like to admit; I could have fidgeted with the details for another month but given that it’s intended to appreciated while zipping past at 75 mph I guess it gets the job done.

I also designed some banners so they could cover up the vehicle’s logo with a fun rainbow sign sharing the vehicle’s name.

The vehicle is named “The Prideful Sloth.”

For this job, I gave up on using the Lenovo touchscreen to draw directly and went back to the Wacom tablet. It just works better for my purposes. It’s more comfortable to use. I drew a bunch of things without it in the last year and the convenience of not having a second device never outweighed the functionality of the Wacom for my purposes.