Art today. Lots of art, I think.
ACEO Night Raven Pines got a bid as soon as I posted it on eBay. I guess the buyer was searching on ravens and it jumped right up! That was some luck!
ACEO Knotwork Peacock actually got sketched earlier, but I had the idea for the raven so I set the sketch aside. I just finished it and posted it a few minutes ago.
I got an email this morning that said eBay is running a discount just for today -- 10 cent listings for anything I list today. So naturally I'm trying to take advantage of that here! Great coincidence that the one-day sale happened to fall on a Thursday night when my friend Lisa always comes over in the evening for our art jam! I know I will do at least one more really good artwork today and probably list it.
I'm still all thrilled that someone bid on the raven as fast as it was posted. That's so neat.
I also lucked on a couple of books I really wanted. I went searching for colored pencil books and happened to turn up the rare Morrell Wise book on colored pencil from Walter Foster Books. Every time I looked for it on Amazon, it's gone, no one's posted one for sale. Morrell Wise did an incredibly realistic landscape on a Prismacolor booklet way back in oh, maybe 1971 or earlier? It was my first exposure to colored pencil realism and it was huge, 22" x 26" or something like that. Giant colored pencil painting in full detailed realism with a reflecting lake and trees and mountains in the distance. Ever since I hoped I'd find a book by him, and now at last I found it. For a ludicrously low price on eBay, no less.
I'm bidding on a couple of other cheap art books, both of which beat Amazon's used-book prices into the ground. I'm beginning to check eBay first when I'm looking for specific books since I can often find it there a lot lower. My book collection grows.
My need for a bookcase continues, and I'm going to have to do something about that soon. But they're cheap, the one I used to have was only $30 at Wal-Mart and it held a lot. So I'll get another of those tall ones and see how fast I can fill it up. The tall shelves are good for a lot of the oversize books too that I sometimes have trouble finding places for.
I also cut part of a sheet of my black Stonehenge paper -- this is super heavy 100% rag art paper, dyed in the fiber, for three OSWOAs and a stack of little ACEO cards. I'm not sure what I'll draw on black yet in colored pencils, but I want to draw on black with colored pencils and see what I get. One thing that might help brighten it is to underpaint the brightest areas with Chinese white from my Sakura watercolor set...