New album release. Spooky dark drone ambient.
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Been finally coming to grips with using Reaper for music instead of bashing my rocks & sticks together with Audacity and LMMS. Holy crap. Itās incredibly deep and not the most intuitive, but so damned powerful. Iāve taken a few vocals a friend did and made completely different songs out of them in a handful of hours, rather than days.
Meeting up with my old singer to throw a couple of albums at him to record, so thatās my next year or two sorted for projects 
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We decided to take this weird little feature in our house and put up a fake cage with monster eyes and teeth behind it.
Painting up on the ladder is really hard on my neck though so it will probably take longer than I expected.
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Will it have bars?
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Yes, right now weāre talking about using half round dowels. And just wider flat pieces for a frame.
And I still need some hobby paints to try to get an aged metal look.
Iāve also ordered a pack of screw and bolt heads I might use. I think they are intended for scrapbooking. Iāll probably use any leftovers in my jewelry pieces.
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Keep us updated!
What a cool idea.
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Is that paint glow-in-the-dark?
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Right now Iām just using a flat white ceiling paint but weāve kicked around the idea of going back over it with glow in the dark or black light reactivate paint.
Iāve always found it hard to get glow in the dark or black light reactivate paint opaque so Iām more likely to layer it.
Final decision has yet to be made. If we do itāll probably just be a thin layer of acrylic and I might get some help so I donāt have to go over the whole thing again by myself.
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This is so cute!!! Love it.
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Scary! I love it!
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My friend, who has been helping so much with painting and decorating our new place, was getting rid of a couple of decorative mirrors.
She had painted on octopus tentacles but the paint was too thick to paint over.
I decided to use molding paste to build up the texture and dimensionality before I repaint them. Itās my first time really working with molding paste.
I forgot to take a picture before starting but here is a comparison shot of one well in progress vs one where Iāve just started on the bubbles.
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w/r/t my drawing I shared upthread, I recently posted a primer on drawing fundamentals at TOP that was fairly well-received.
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I wish freehand drawing was universally applicable. I spent 8 months in art class trying to master the fundamentals of freehand drawing. I got a D minus when the principal finally compelled my art teacher to let me do photography for the last two weeks.
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Iāll try the first exercise. Itās been recommended to me before.
The rest still seems incredibly intimidating. Iād love to get to the point where I can sketch with a pencil comfortably, but as soon as people start mentioning charcoal etc it starts to get scary.
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aww! well, charcoal is just a slightly different drawing tool. I suppose you could lay down a grey tone in pencil but it would take forever compared to 5 seconds with the broad-edge of the charcoal. you could totally use pencil for the drawing and erasing, though.
or you could buy grey paper and pencil-in the darks, but youād need a white chalk pastel or contĆ© crayon to put the highlights in, which is like the white version of charcoal anyway. all three are user-friendly and erasable, though, and much easier to push around on the paper to get the density just right, compared to pencil.
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Every journey begins with the first step.
As I pointed out at āthe other placeā, Betty Edwardsā book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is essential in understanding the way a Western/realism artist sees what she draws, reducing 3D to a 2D plane, and abandoning childhoodās visually symbolic shorthand to actually take the time to look at whatās in front of you.
For lack of a better analogy, the process is going to be a struggle at first, like viewing a Magic Eye poster, but once it āclicksā, the learning process will rapidly improve for a short time until you reach a plateau point. After that, improvement is incremental, but by then, youāre good enough not to worry so much about it.
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like viewing a Magic Eye poster, but once it āclicksā,
NOOOOOO!!! !!! !!!
I frakking hate the Magic Headache Posters.
āIt hurts.ā
āYouāre just not looking at it right, keep trying.ā
āIt hurts moreā¦ā
āKeep tryingā
āIt keeps hurting moreā
āYou just need to ā¦ā
I have forgotten the advice but it never worked and always hurt.
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