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After work on Thursday and Friday i was very sedentary. At some point in there i developed a very painful sore throat. Friday i went to my sister's briefly in the evening for a small gather. Her daughter was off to an end of middle school dance (and left before i arrived), and her son had a school art show. I then returned home to collect Christine, and we drove to the art show and supported W-- in his art.
While W--'s distorted body parts did not speak to me, his artist's statement put them in a context in which i could see them.
Saturday evaporated.
I did play with paper and made a A6 notebook of art paper separated by what was sold as tracing paper but was cheap tissue paper, and had a couple pages of standard bond paper printed up for a table of content and notes. Adobe's InDesign is ... not so easy to use because it does bizarre things with groups and layers that look like bugs to me. But i have made nifty fiscal year calendars and little weekly notebooks for work that may bring some order compared to the scraps-of-paper or stacks of random 3x5 card notes that i have been scribbling for work. Because the notes are SO transient, i hate using a "nice" notebook for them, but the scraps were somewhat less than useless because the context was completely lost. With a little 16 page pamphlet i have enough white space for the week, plus five pages for the work days, and a "table of contents" front page. The little sketch book is nice enough for pleasure in using, small enough that it's not intimidating, and short enough that i can keep it for one thing.
I have a rather nice blank book that i am using for experimenting with colored pencil color combinations. Saturday i experimented with a warm yellow + cool yellow + lavender grey as the final in my series of warm/cool primary plus similar color (crimson+poppy+process red, true blue + ultramarine + black grape). I'm making little "Interactions of Color" panels à la mode de Joseph Albers and doodles. I'd bought "101 textures in colored pencil" by Denise Howard, and i'm experimenting with that (using my color choices, not hers). I'm hoping with these exercises i can develop a sense of what i can make with colored pencils.
Yesterday afternoon, i did get out and mow a little bit, disturbing some very young bunnies. I left the main patch where they were unmown. I weeded some, disturbing another young bunny. I wonder if bunnies are to blame for the absence of some of the squash seedlings, but it's more likely some combination of old seed and gardener inattention. Just like packets of zinna and cosmos seed seem to have produced one seedling each. Fie.
I'm hoping mowing has helped me get back to the yard.
Meanwhile, i have the worst sore throat i can remember. Are my symptoms due to [contagious condition of your choice] or due to surgery recovery? Fie. My throat doesn't have any tell-tale conditions that scream "strep" or "tonsillitis" compared to Google images, but omg did my sleep get interrupted. I think that when i plugged the heated tube in i didn't remember how to correctly adjust the humidity, so it may be i need more moisture in my night air. It could be due to irritation in the saline rinses for my nose. Nothing seems to help. Christine realized how bad it was when she nudged me to use the throat spray i hate, and i told her i already was.
We now have two game things. Christine has replaced our 18+ year old XBox with the latest Playstation and she bought Stray for me. I'm not sure how well I will do as this is no my usual choice of amusement. She also bought a thing i had seen on Etsy when i went to look for a backgammon board. It's a laser cut triple game board for the Babylonian royal game of Ur, Aseb/Twenty squares, and Senet. The first rules Christine found for Aseb required tossing a 4 with the throwing sticks (that are not thrown) to move your first piece on the board. Christine went a whole game without throwing a 4. I don't think we will use that rule again. It's probably more fun when friends are looking on and gambling on whether you will EVER get a 4.
Christine [5/21/23 12:33]
W--, I enjoyed your art display. You might find some kindred spirits in two of my favorite artists: Gerald Scarfe (The Wall) and Francis Bacon (1909-1992).
W-- [5/21/23 18:58]
Thank you! I haven’t looked into Gerald Scarfe before, so I’ll look into him, but Francis Bacon is one of my favorites! You may enjoy perusing some of Zdzisław Beksiński—he’s who I would call my favorite artist.
While W--'s distorted body parts did not speak to me, his artist's statement put them in a context in which i could see them.
Saturday evaporated.
I did play with paper and made a A6 notebook of art paper separated by what was sold as tracing paper but was cheap tissue paper, and had a couple pages of standard bond paper printed up for a table of content and notes. Adobe's InDesign is ... not so easy to use because it does bizarre things with groups and layers that look like bugs to me. But i have made nifty fiscal year calendars and little weekly notebooks for work that may bring some order compared to the scraps-of-paper or stacks of random 3x5 card notes that i have been scribbling for work. Because the notes are SO transient, i hate using a "nice" notebook for them, but the scraps were somewhat less than useless because the context was completely lost. With a little 16 page pamphlet i have enough white space for the week, plus five pages for the work days, and a "table of contents" front page. The little sketch book is nice enough for pleasure in using, small enough that it's not intimidating, and short enough that i can keep it for one thing.
I have a rather nice blank book that i am using for experimenting with colored pencil color combinations. Saturday i experimented with a warm yellow + cool yellow + lavender grey as the final in my series of warm/cool primary plus similar color (crimson+poppy+process red, true blue + ultramarine + black grape). I'm making little "Interactions of Color" panels à la mode de Joseph Albers and doodles. I'd bought "101 textures in colored pencil" by Denise Howard, and i'm experimenting with that (using my color choices, not hers). I'm hoping with these exercises i can develop a sense of what i can make with colored pencils.
Yesterday afternoon, i did get out and mow a little bit, disturbing some very young bunnies. I left the main patch where they were unmown. I weeded some, disturbing another young bunny. I wonder if bunnies are to blame for the absence of some of the squash seedlings, but it's more likely some combination of old seed and gardener inattention. Just like packets of zinna and cosmos seed seem to have produced one seedling each. Fie.
I'm hoping mowing has helped me get back to the yard.
Meanwhile, i have the worst sore throat i can remember. Are my symptoms due to [contagious condition of your choice] or due to surgery recovery? Fie. My throat doesn't have any tell-tale conditions that scream "strep" or "tonsillitis" compared to Google images, but omg did my sleep get interrupted. I think that when i plugged the heated tube in i didn't remember how to correctly adjust the humidity, so it may be i need more moisture in my night air. It could be due to irritation in the saline rinses for my nose. Nothing seems to help. Christine realized how bad it was when she nudged me to use the throat spray i hate, and i told her i already was.
We now have two game things. Christine has replaced our 18+ year old XBox with the latest Playstation and she bought Stray for me. I'm not sure how well I will do as this is no my usual choice of amusement. She also bought a thing i had seen on Etsy when i went to look for a backgammon board. It's a laser cut triple game board for the Babylonian royal game of Ur, Aseb/Twenty squares, and Senet. The first rules Christine found for Aseb required tossing a 4 with the throwing sticks (that are not thrown) to move your first piece on the board. Christine went a whole game without throwing a 4. I don't think we will use that rule again. It's probably more fun when friends are looking on and gambling on whether you will EVER get a 4.
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