Tips

Happy easter! I have nothing to say at all for easter tonight... ...So I'll make up something...   ...Hmm...  Warm colors tend to look more closer to the eye and cold colors tend farther away due to the fact that things farther away in landscapes look blue-ish because of the way that light and eyes work. Making the foreground objects in art a dark blueish and making the background a bright red will cause the colors to really catch eyes with their blaring, shrieking clashness. More tomorrow! Sorry I didn't blog for weeks! Bye!

English never ceases to amuse for some reason

Hmm... Uhh... Umm... Wicked is pronounced differently than almost all the adjectives in english that end with ed. Only 3 other words with eds of the ends are pronounced like that. Posting more tomorrow! 

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Too bad I didn't do anything today. By the way, my art reception was pretty good. Too many people showed up to look at all the art and I got another chance to pig out on scones. Lots of my friends showed up also. That was pretty much all there was to it...    ...Sigh...

Really inconvienant invitation

If you want to, you can come to an art reception featuring some of my works.  It will be at the Halle Cultural Arts Center on Salem St. from 6PM to 8PM. Food and drinks will be provided. You can see the art that I did and see some of my friends's art. I wouldn't really expect anyone to come as all of my blog reader live in New Mexico, but I'm sure that you could get there if you walked slightly faster than normal. It's tomorrow. 

(For O'l Mom's porpoises, this post will be unavailable until next week)

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Here's a drawing that I did of a familiar consumer around my house:<br />
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Psychologic

Tonight I have nothing to say at all. Isn't that great? Hmm... People's brains naturally will instantly record bad things that happen to them for defense and disregard good things that happen to them for memory.  This means that if you dislike something due to a bad experience, it's statistically likely that 75% of the time you encounter the thing, it turned out just fine for you. Isn't that neat?

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day as evidenced by the title! Now I have no idea what to say... Umm... Here, have a lobster that I drew for you.  It's not exactly related, but I think that it's good enough.

Happy absolutely knot Pi Day!

In 1644, mince pies were banned in Christian countries. This law was half as successful as Prohibition.
Boston Cream Pie is secretly a cake.
Despite why Porkpie hats are called Porkpie hats, which is obvious, I've never seen a porkpie what looked like a porkpie hat.
Most mass-produced commercial super unhealthy pumpkin pies are actually Dickinson's squash pies. A Dickinson's squash is a kind of a squash with an orange flesh that looks like pumpkin. It's not really an unhealthy squash, just the mass-produced kind is unhealthy. Pretty much any commercial food from a worldwide, really cheap food industry is unhealthy despite the kind of food, most of which is not even really that food but just another lie.
Raisin pies are sometimes called funeral pies for reasons similar to the origins to the term OK.
Here's something really shocking: 3.14 backwards is P1.E. 

Happy pye day!

Happy pie day! Now I'll think of something to say... Umm... People stereotypisize apple pie as being quintessentially 18th century American, but surprisingly they were first recorded in Britain in 1684. Lemon Meringue is much more American, and pies with an open crust and/or a meringue on top often tend to be American inventions. I'll say more tomorrow... Or maybe the day after that... Or maybe later.

Abstarction

Here's an abstraction of color theory that I did:

... Hmm... ...What to say tonight... umm... I really hate it when I'm sharpening a colored pencil and the tip breaks off, so then I sharpen it again without sharpening it quite as much but then it's too dull, so I sharpen it again and then I get it to the point where it's just perfectly sharp and just the right color and everything sets up in a perfect way and I start to shade the edge of the tomato that I was coloring when the tip breaks off and some of the fake lead comes out, and then I sharpen it again and it's too dull and then I sharpen it again and then tHE TIP BREAKS OFF AGAIN WHEN YOUR SHARPENING IT AND THEN THE PENCIL BREAKS WHEN Y

Nope

I still have nothing to say today! Again! ...    Umm...    ...Never put a color right next to its opposite on the color wheel. Put it right next to the color a tiny bit off from the opposite, and the contrast will really lash vibrantly at your eyes. I know these kinds of things. 

Weather

I hear the major snowstorms are terrorizing the areas where most of my reader live (DC, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, etc.) and temperatures are below 0 with 8 feet high floods of snow whilst where I live, it's already 69 Fairenhigeht, dandelions are blooming, and the frogs are already through with hibernation to stay up all night croaking keeping everyone else up all night. Anyone jealous? You can keep feeling jealous if you are. Don't hold it against me, I know how weather-related jealousy feels. I bet no-one who lives in the area of the big storm ever thinks about building snow castles or having snowball fights or sledding and playing out in the 8-foot, moist, not too powdery and not too icy snow all day and get soaked and come in for a nice hot cup of tea. Nope. They all probably just sit and think of how nice it must be to live where Spring comes in mid-February and Fall ends in mid-December and the lowest possible temperature is 49 Fairenheight and it snows once a year about a 1/256th of an inch which is 90% ice snow and melts two hours after it snows. Grumble. 

Overeaction

I don't have anything tonight to say either. Who expected that? Umm...   ...I still don't have anything to say...   ...Almost never is an interesting concept! The Wizard of Earthsea was a pretty innovative trendsetter! Never dig strait down! ALL THE THINGS! 

I still have nothing to say tonight... Again... So here's some more photography that I photographed.

This one is about texture and color.

This one is about the visual effect of a black line across a low-color, blank background. Dark grey/gray in this case.

This one is kind of about lines, kind of about color, kind of about texture, and kind of about shadows and light. 

More Photragraphy

As always, I don't have anything to say tonight... So... Here's some more photographs that I took. They're are pretty formalistic:

The lines and perspective of horizon and stripes are pretty neat here.

Here's is some more perspective of lines. You can also see a really raggedy old red coat and huge muddy boots.

This one isn't about line or horizons. It's about color and texture and light and shadow. 

SCIENCE

O'l Mom thinks that I should do a blog tonight despite not having done anything worthy of blogging about...  I guess I could share some knowledge that I heard at a science today and will probably forget tomorrow: In order to color certain bacteria, a slide with said bacteria must be first procured, then dipped first in Crystal Annomyde, where it will trickle through the cell wall and into the nuclei, then dipped in Iodine to procure a color which is utterly and undeniably fabulous, than dipped in alcohol, which, unexpectedly, shrinks the inner wall on gram + bacteria and dissolves the second outer membrane on a gram - bacteria, making them easily distinguishable. You might not expect this to come in handy if you're building a huge sub-atomic quarkial contraption to pioneer the event of moving an object across time and space, but it will probably be relevant at some point, especially if it only transports living things or if it is powered, inspired, or contracted out to space and time-transcending magic microbes. That's all tonight!