This morning it started out below zero and we had both sun dogs and moon dogs. I knew about the phenomenon of sun dogs but I thought a moon dog was Gidget's boyfriend. The weatherman was saying that there was a ring around the moon, but I couldn't see it from my window and I wasn't about to go outside and look. A little while later I drove Alex to the train and I could see the sun dogs around the sun. Wonderful! I didn't think to bring my camera, so I borrowed this one from the local news.
Someone sent me a video of the song,"I'm My Own Grandpa". I didn't like that video as much as this one with Muppets.When I was a teenager I read the Robert Heinlein story,"All You Zombies" and they mention that song. I didn't know it was a real song until a few years later and I saw a band sing it. The Heinlein story is about time travel, sex change and how the one person telling the story is both his mother and his father. So weird that I've never forgotten it. I looked, and the story is online. I'm still working on aceos but I'm not ready enough to put them up for sale.
Here is a prototype of an aceo. That stands for art cards, editions and originals, in case you didn't know. My Day of the Dead group on 1000Markets wants us to come up with some. They have to be 2.5" x 3.5", like trading cards. I'm working on experimenting with various ways to make them interesting yet time and price efficient. I have an awful habit of spending waaay too much time on one piece and not liking it in the end. I'm hoping to work toward just doing it efficiently and letting it go before I get too precious. Collecting aceos is becoming a popular way of collecting affordable art. They are never expensive. Prints can be less than 5 dollars and originals can be from 15 to 50 dollars. I'm going to look for some white liquid clay online now.
I sold this sunbather piece almost a year and a half ago to someone assembling a book about Day of the Dead crafts. I signed a release and eventually forgot about it. I think I did that because it's an early piece and I don't like it any more. I remembered last week and looked the book up on Amazon. It's a very pretty book called,"Day of the Dead Crafts". It came out last August. Cool!
Truman had an intruder in his yard this evening. It was a possum. This is a fuzzy picture because it was almost dark and I snapped it through a window. Truman barked at it until I let him outside. He didn't touch it. I looked it up and there's more to playing possum than I thought. Not only do they lay there but they secrete something foul smelling out of their anus. Must have been really something to deter Truman. I thought maybe the possum was emitting some kind of death ray. Flash, the basset who lives on the other side of the fence, barked his head off. This time of year you take your fun where you can get it. The statue is Bettie Page. It's the first one I've made with hair. I realized that her hair is her trademark. Since I couldn't make a skeleton voluptuous I added the hair. Later I will paint the rest of the itty bitty leopard spots. My bride and groom are flying to North Carolina right now. Last night I gave two pieces to the guys from Holland who were passing through again this year. It all evens out. Here is the latest great dog video making the rounds. Do canines dream electric sheep?
I was thinking of a feral cat that lived under our porch when I was young. She was missing one of her front legs. When she had a litter of kittens you'd see them following her around with one of their front paws tucked up so they walked on three legs, too. I don't know what made me remember that. I remade Cupcake Tree and Mandrake plant. The cupcake tree is hard to photograph.
Here is a prototype of an aceo. That stands for art cards, editions and originals, in case you didn't know.
I sold this sunbather piece almost a year and a half ago to someone assembling a book about Day of the Dead crafts. I signed a release and eventually forgot about it. I think I did that because it's an early piece and I don't like it any more. I remembered last week and looked the book up on Amazon. It's a very pretty book called,"Day of the Dead Crafts". It came out last August. Cool!
Truman had an intruder in his yard this evening. It was a possum. This is a fuzzy picture because it was almost dark and I snapped it through a window. Truman barked at it until I let him outside. He didn't touch it. I looked it up and there's more to playing possum than I thought. Not only do they lay there but they secrete something foul smelling out of their anus. Must have been really something to deter Truman. I thought maybe the possum was emitting some kind of death ray. Flash, the basset who lives on the other side of the fence, barked his head off. This time of year you take your fun where you can get it.
I was thinking of a feral cat that lived under our porch when I was young. She was missing one of her front legs. When she had a litter of kittens you'd see them following her around with one of their front paws tucked up so they walked on three legs, too. I don't know what made me remember that.
