Heya!

[batiferrite]

I've been surprisingly busy the past couple of days after a long stretch of nothing -- yesterday and the day before, we suddenly started rearranging all our furniture and planning a garage sale to deal with all the excess junk, and today I went to a family reunion (my relatives who moved to Texas a couple years ago suddenly decided to come up for a visit. we're also going on a little road trip tomorrow and various other little meetings through the week while they're here).


Aside from all that, my aunt commissioned me to make her an artwork based on the word, "chaos," and I was planning on working on that this week. I was thinking of making a mixed media sort of collage where it has warning labels with depictions of natural disasters, pollution, etc all over, malware popup-style? I already dissected a couple of old manuals for electronics / appliances to harvest some labels and have been checking out a couple of different secondhand stores to see if they have any old cheap magazines I could cut up, and I'll try to figure out where to go from there...

Also, last week, I made this little guy:

 

He's made from an old desk calendar that I painted over to look like one of my cats, Gus. I do think he turned out really cute (even if he looks kinda sad). My acrylic paint is so awful quality, though! Do you know how many coats it took to do this?! I've been wanting to try Holbein's Acryla Gouache for a while, and maybe now's the time...