bus doodles

Yesterday and most of today, I read Bruce Sterling's 'Schismatrix' on the bus. Well, actually 'Schismatrix Plus', which contains both the novel and the several short stories set in the same timeline.

Today, Eddie noticed and complimented my new backdrop at work - the jumping girl I just did. He was quite impressed when I showed him the original rough, and told him I go directly from that to the final, painting atop it.

I was thinking about the techniques I used in the sketch, and about how anatomy has become just a tool for me, to use when I feel like it, instead of a goal to strive for in and of itself. I don't claim to be a perfect goddess of anatomy, not by a long shot, but I know enough of it that I can merrily ignore it at my pleasure, and make the image work anyway.

It was with this in mind, and having finished the overstuffed haikus of Sterling's prose, that I did four strange full-page scrawls on the second half of the ride home. I feel vaguely that these may represent some sort of new direction for my art, although it's visual language I've been evolving for a while.

( Swirling kinetic strangeness )

questions and answers, again

I'm just a little black rain-cloud
hovering over the honey-tree
I'm just a little black rain-cloud
pay no
attention
to me...

I did this a bit more than a year ago; far fewer people were perusing this diary then. So I think I'll do it again. For a limited but unspecified time, I will answer any and all questions about myself posed as comments to this entry.

I reserve the right to answer them in a nonsensical manner, or to evade the question if I feel it's going into places I'd prefer not to travel, but I will attempt to make my evasions amusing, and possibly even to contain a nugget of truth.

I'm curious to see what people may be curious about regarding myself.

wow

I just saw 'At The Beach' 'Naked Beach Frenzy', the next episode of R&S, sent down from Canadanadia.

Even without the sound, we were rolling in gales of laughter. It's going to be broadcast a week late since TNN Spike decided they wanted it censored after all. Unless the dialogue, sounds, and music is completely horrible, people will love this episode.

I predict that at least one R&S fan will screengrab and post on the web every single frame of some scenes.