This one was pencil and ink with oil pastels for the color.
I enjoy playing with mixed mediums as it gives my imagination more to work with. I had to use something to make the initial circle as my hand is not so steady to be able to make the circle freehand. I found that some of the mediums are more difficult to work with.
Okay, I am going to preface this with I Swear I am a writer.
I end up on weird rabbit hole Google searches. I feel sorry for whoever ends up having to sort out my search history. I search for things like who voiced certain characters in various anime or cartoons… like most people do. Then there’s the random fact search for stories I am currently working on…or the strange things that spark my imagination.
The last one was how to turn humans into soap. The worst part is that I already knew how… because I learned years ago how ashes, fat, and water in the right ratio created soap. I never thought about humans being a good source of fat before though.
I did not manage to go to college but I have taken so many free community courses or the occasional weird class offered by places that would be considered anything but educational. I have also taught myself things via the Internet and sheer determination to know it.
So my thoughts? Unless you are literally looking up illegal activity… do not be ashamed of research searches. You might be surprised by what you find.
(In 1780, the former Holy Innocents’ Cemetery in Paris was closed because of overuse. In 1786, the bodies were exhumed and the bones were moved to the Catacombs.[6] Many bodies had incompletely decomposed and had reduced into deposits of fat. During the exhumation, this fat was collected and subsequently turned into candles and soap.
In 1787, the French inspector of manufactures Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière reportedly proposed a scheme to the Academy of Lyons for utilizing the bodies of the dead by converting the fat into lamp-oil and the bones into phosphoric acid. <according to Wikipedia>)
Guess Serena has a new story idea. 😹
well you now know what rabbit hole I have been crawling in this week….
Okay… The new year has made me reconsider the way I have been doing things with my blog. When possible I will be trying to schedule it as much ahead as possible. This way I don’t fall as much behind. The Artsy Fartsy Thursday is good for this. I want to change my way of posting it as well. At least one Thursday a month I think I want to actually talk about art. Not just posting my own. This way I don’t feel like I am so often just getting away from writing. Sometimes it might be just discussion on art social media…or I will talk about techniques. this will be a single post each month for me to tell you what my mind says art is.
Art is seriously perspective based.
For some reason every artist I have ever met has been so filled with doubt.
Art is full of various ideas and thoughts. The media used changes what the artist has had to learn to make the art work.
Pattimouse 