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Art: manly mermen having fun
It drew! And something that is not pixel dragons either.
Started in March 2009 - should tell you something about where I am artistically, that it took me so long to finish this.
NSFW (though nothing much more explicit than a kiss - unless you have imagination :D)
Coloured pencil on pastel paper, 24 x 32 cm
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Cherry-Walnut cake
We recently got a delicious recipe for a cherry cake and it would be criminal not to share it.
You need
For the dough:
1 cup flour (1 cup = 200ml)
5 table spoons powdered sugar
100 g soft butter
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Sprite art dump!
I haven't really posted my finished sprites here, but just to have some actual content, here they are:
Clay Dragon (red=male, blue=female)
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Books of 2009, Part II
I've read hardly anything at all in terms of actual hard copies of books. I did read several novels worth of SPN fanfic, but I suppose that doesn't count.
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There be salad.
I just remembered about a salad that's currently a great favourite in our family and I wanted to share for a while. It's absolutely delicious ( Read more... ) -
Orange cake
I made a lovely orange cake today, from this recipe. It's delicious, even though I didn't use enough flour and butter (who the hell measures something that comes in chunks in a volume measuring unit?) because I had problems translating the measurements, and I would probably use more lemon and less orange juice next time since it's a bit too sweet ( Read more... ) -
Moar illustrations.
This time it's from a lovely edition of Pushkin's Ruslan_and_Lyudmila - check Wikipedia for the story, as I'm too lazy to tell it, not that I remember it entirely myself ( Read more... ) -
Cool illustrations.
Scanned in parts of a book with some more art that had such a huge impact on me as a child, I'll probably never forget it ( Read more... ) -
X-posted from storybookland.
I'm trying to find out where these pictures here came from - I always thought they were from a book, but the only place I found them online says it's a film. I've no idea myself, but you know how there are images that burn yourself into your mind and you remember them, even after you've long forgotten what they were about or where they originally ( Read more... ) -
More about coloured pencils.
First of all, I finally got my nerve up to go to a wholesale artist supplies store - generally meant for commercial buyers or professional artists or art students with the appropriate licenses, I heard many times that you need to get a customer card and hope they accept your claim of being a free-lance artist without much questioning. Well... the ( Read more... )