Cats
The boy, upon seeing pictures of my dogs, commissioned me to make him some pictures of a black kitten.
Why not? The first picture proved the best, the later 2 efforts were - while colorful, not exactly what I was hoping for (hence the bad pictures).
Kitten with yarn. This was attempt #2. Bits are OK, bits - background especially - needed a lot more work and thought.
Cat with Rat. Not so unhappy with this one, but maybe a little overworked.
And Finally, the first one I did, which is still by far and away the best:
Cat doing Tarot. Which I like, obvious failings aside...
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David Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster
Painting, and it helps to clear the mental noise to have some background, usually "In Our Time" by Melvn Bragg, buy I've exhausted my first picks and sometimes need a break.
So I try listening to David Foster Wallace - readings from Consider the Lobster.
Which is good, but I have to leave off the painting, his narratives are a little too in depth, too engrossing to listen to as background, you need to actively listen. Which is a good thing. There are no great revelations, only his rather grim view of the unquestioned social hypocrisies we all adhere to - I'm probably not his ideal audience, I've considered everything that he discusses, but he goes a little - a lot more in depth than many of his listeners or readers would be comfortable with. Nothing new, nothing you couldn't have figured out yourself if you'd only ask the questions, take the time, but good nonetheless, and his "take" on things is always that of a sane person in an obviously insane world.
Listening to him, it's no surprise that he killed himself, rather more a surprise that he lasted as long as he did. And you can't help but wonder what he would have thought of the ever increasing insanity of world politics at this moment....He got out at the right time.
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Low Water, Tree, BBI
Low water in the lake, Kokanee Creek mud flats.
Bent Tree
And, still in business, and never was a great time better advertised...
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Misery
Batsh*t in Nelson, the gateway, his sister, meeting her, he's warned me, she quickly drops word of her personal relationship with Jesus, which she seems to have adopted merely to raise herself above any suspicion, a common church trick, she manages Batsh*t's pension cheques, has him on a $10 a week allowance, I figure it all out pretty quick, am joking with him that she'll in the end never give him the key to his new place, that she'll break his legs and keep him in bed feeding him from her abundance of ready-to-expire food bank donations and reading to him the bible, one of those people that forever mean well but do only harm, he can't stand her but has to shut up while he's at her place, and you begin to understand him a bit better, the bullshit, it's spread a lot thinner now, and you realize that all things told he's probably the sanest one in his family...
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