busy pony stuff
The 3rd of July was cool. We had a great horned owl in one of the trees. Very large impressive bird. We hear owls all the time but this is the first time I have seen one.
Fleet's old dog, the husky is gone. She was in a lot of pain and was wasting away so it was time to put her down. She is buried under her favorite fruit tree in the meadow.
Im seldom in Secondlife. I have to much real life. I updated my OS on the Mac Mini. It ounce agains runs SL but I don't have the time to bother.
I've done over 200 ATC's and traded them. I've remembered to scan most of them. I have a nice slide show of them on my laptop.
I am participating in a couple art circle journals. My journal will travel across North America and UK and back. This will take a year.
I have dropped out of some of the ATC swap groups I was in. I have the same complaint with ATC art as I do with Furry art. Way to much looks like it was all done by the same person. Everyone wants my hand drawn and hand painted ATC's but most of what I get in return is Collage styled ATC's. I have finally found a FineArtATC121 group where only hand drawn/painted are swapped. Most are water color artists but all media is used only Collage and Digital are not allowed.
I'm also doing a lot of collaborative ATC art. Some of it is what is called a "Jam" first person does the background second works on it then passes it to a 3rd person to finish . This is done in 3's so everyone gets one when its done. Another type is called a "hitch Hiker" as it travels with swaps. the HH is started by someone passed to another person in a swap and they work on it and pass it on with their next swap and on it goes until 5 people have added to the ATC then its returned to the original /owner artist.
I have started doing swaps on Swap-bot.com. There are a lot of different kinds of swaps there. I do a lot of 1 for 1 hand drawn/ painted ATC swaps there. I now make and swap something called a Dotee Doll. cute, simple and easy to make and mail in a padded envelope. I have made my first Quiltie, think ATC collage meets traditional quilt squares. Its usually one pieced and embellished square and then traded.
Fleet's old dog, the husky is gone. She was in a lot of pain and was wasting away so it was time to put her down. She is buried under her favorite fruit tree in the meadow.
Im seldom in Secondlife. I have to much real life. I updated my OS on the Mac Mini. It ounce agains runs SL but I don't have the time to bother.
I've done over 200 ATC's and traded them. I've remembered to scan most of them. I have a nice slide show of them on my laptop.
I am participating in a couple art circle journals. My journal will travel across North America and UK and back. This will take a year.
I have dropped out of some of the ATC swap groups I was in. I have the same complaint with ATC art as I do with Furry art. Way to much looks like it was all done by the same person. Everyone wants my hand drawn and hand painted ATC's but most of what I get in return is Collage styled ATC's. I have finally found a FineArtATC121 group where only hand drawn/painted are swapped. Most are water color artists but all media is used only Collage and Digital are not allowed.
I'm also doing a lot of collaborative ATC art. Some of it is what is called a "Jam" first person does the background second works on it then passes it to a 3rd person to finish . This is done in 3's so everyone gets one when its done. Another type is called a "hitch Hiker" as it travels with swaps. the HH is started by someone passed to another person in a swap and they work on it and pass it on with their next swap and on it goes until 5 people have added to the ATC then its returned to the original /owner artist.
I have started doing swaps on Swap-bot.com. There are a lot of different kinds of swaps there. I do a lot of 1 for 1 hand drawn/ painted ATC swaps there. I now make and swap something called a Dotee Doll. cute, simple and easy to make and mail in a padded envelope. I have made my first Quiltie, think ATC collage meets traditional quilt squares. Its usually one pieced and embellished square and then traded.