Release the Kraken

Here are two of a series of photos I took for a group show a friend put on. I only used four for the show, and wanted to dust the rest off and start tweaking them. I'm still working on framing them for an upcoming artwalk, and the final number depends on if I decide to build more frames to go with the extra frames I had leftover from my first build or buy new...

Sorry about the watermarks, but I have a like/hate relationship with the internet. Speaking of....

NaCreSoMo-OhNo! Confessions of the technologically challenged: I have spent way too long trying to comment on other people's posts, particularly without splashing my full name around the internet. I got an openID which wouldn't work, somehow accidentally signed up for google+ (blech) and after almost punching my computer deleted it. I have too many id's floating around that negate or block the others, and I think I have finally figured it out. So, to go with my backlog of NaCreSoMo posts I also have a backlog of comments/compliments.

Peepers

Late night, early morning. One neighbor had a bad date, the other had no date. We ended up commiserating with what started as a large bottle of whiskey, hence no NaCreSoMo post last night. I played drums at the Slovene Hall for their monthly polka dance and tried to video that as a creative act, but the video came out poorly enough to veto. (I've had to defend polka to a lot of people, so whatever product that goes out has to be top notch as it already has such an odd reputation...) It came down to eyes, my go to absent-minded pen on paper drawings. There are about twenty more or so on the page, if this isn't creepy enough.

Me paint pretty one day.

    I decided to start my NaCreSoMo late, and with painting. I'm not really a painter, at least not a good one, and was trying to paint how I draw. It didn't work out so well, and this is the result of having a bunch of paint left over and trying to get rid of it. I'm way more happy with the results of this quick dry-brushed sketch than the actual painting.