Tuesday, April 24, 2007 A

"At the Repair Shop"
5:56pm

We could ignore it no longer, the streams of nasty smelling smoke pushing their way from out underneath the car hood were increasingly ominous. At first it was only bad when the AC was on. So then I tried 'vent', and it started smoking then. Finally, it was smoking with no vent.

When my co-worker told a scary tale of a car she'd had that started out that way and then burst into flames, that was it, no more procrastinating. So I went to bed really early last night, 8:00pm early, so that I'd be in good shape to rise early to take the car in.

When we were in the waiting room, I made use of a sketch book I'd taken with me:


Two others with car troubles...

The guy to your left was actually to my visual right of the other guy. He wouldn't sit still, hence his sketch is more sketchy. He wore baggy shorts with socks and sandals. The weird looking thing on his chest is actually his sun glasses draped in the opening of his polo shirt. A broad brimmed straw hat topped off his ensemble.

The other guy wore blue jeans, white short sleeved shirt and a base ball hat. It wasn't long after I finished the sketches that the courtesy van was ready to take Julia and I to work.

Happily, they were able to finish the car today, and it was not as horrendously expensive as we feared it might be. The cause of the smoking turned out to be a loose oil filter that caused terrible leaking. They replaced the oil filter and cleaned the engine.

Not only that, another annoying problem was fixed. The turn signal hadn't been working reliably for some time, but up until now, no one had been able to fix it. The flasher relay module had burned out, so they replaced that. In addition, they did a power steering and power brake flush.

As I drove us home, in addition to no longer smoking, it even surprised me that the turn signal worked as it should. So I'm happy.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 B

"It Happened Like This..."
8:24pm

It wasn't very long after I began looking at a photographer's exquisite photos from Morocco that I felt inspired to draw. If you do a search for 'portraits, all, all', you'll come to "Ref SO41". You will see there a young boy against a blotchy wall. I imagined I saw another person in those blotches. Something about the juxtaposition of reality and imagination was irresistable. I began a drawing based in reality, you see the hat fairly realistic, and then imagination took over and the young boy became a young teenaged girl telling her latest adventure to an older woman seen through a window. I imagine the woman washing dishes while listening to her niece's tale:

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

"Revising "It Happened Like This..."
9:00pm

The original sketch was so flawed, that prior to coloring this piece, I had to resize too large hand, misshapen heads, arms, etc...

Thursday, April 26, 2007

"Lords of the Dance"
7:12am

Friday, April 27, 2007

"Fragmented Understanding"
9:03pm

I'm certain this drawing was influenced by the 'fragmented understanding' I have regarding the potentiality of a math course Julia sent for. It is called 'The Joy of Math'. Oh, the young instructor is enthusiastic enough, but can he make plain to me all the mysterious things he said we would be learning later on?

Most of the terms sounded rather like a foreign language. Meanwhile, I am puzzling over a mystery he showed early in the lecture:

10 x 10 = 100 ( difference below)
9 x 11 = 99 ( 1 [1x1=1])
8 x 12 = 96 ( 4 [2x2=4])
7 x 13 = 91 ( 9 [3x3=9])
6 x 14 = 84 ( 16 [4x4=16])
5 x 15 = 75 ( 25 [5x5=25])
4 x 16 = 64 ( 64 [6x6=36])
3 x 17 = 51 ( 49 [7x7=49])
2 x 18 = 36 ( 64 [8x8=64])
1 x 19 = 19 ( 81 [9x9=81])

At first it didn't even make sense to me that the multiplied totals should be gradually decreasing when those number sets all add up to twenty. So I carried this all the way out to 1 x 19, and I see how multiplication is different than adding. But it's still puzzling why that increasing number times itself thing is going on in the ratio of the decreasing compared to the original number pairing. Julia offered to draw this out for me, but I said I'd wait until the professor explained it. If he cannot make it plain, then she can try to sort my head out.

Saturday, April 28, 2007

"More Dimensional Thoth"
8:58am

Thoth as he was...

Thoth as he now is...

AND he's available in a print, either 4x5 version or 8x10!
See 'Egyptian Inspired' gallery

I also added the cactus bloom picture to the photo gallery, as well.

Sunday, April 29, 2007 A

"It's Within!"
7:45am


I hope to color this soon...

11:30am

Sunday, April 29, 2007 B

"My Daemon is...a Tiger?"
6:44pm


"Your profile reveals that you are:
Modest, assertive, competive, sociable and solitary.
You are therefore matched with the Tiger Daemon"

How do I feel about those results? I am not 'modest' in the sense of one with much humility, I am prideful. But I don't generally boast about my accomplishments. I reveal more in my own domain than I do in public. Yes, I'm assertive, I speak my mind, even if it is not popular. Competive? I think I try to compete more with myself, to try and out do what I did in the past. 'Sociable and solitary', that's an odd combination. But it fits. I visit more bloggers than you might possibly imagine, making comments, keeping up with the events in their lives. So I love being sociable through the written word. However, I feel some difficulty in communicating in some ways, to take the initiative orally, to tell stories, to chat on the phone for hours as the conventional person. But I think the one balances the other out.

Meanwhile I am excited about this movie, _The Golden Compass_. Although I've not read _His Dark Materials_, the book upon which this movie is based, I've heard many good things about it.

Yet Another Quiz!


What Be Your Nerd Type?

"Whether it's painting, sewing, drawing, arts and crafts; or just splashing paint onto a canvas and calling it art; you mostly fit this description. Lots of people envy the artists, but be humble and keep working on it. There is a shortage of true artists today who actually contribute anything to society."

"Be humble and keep working on it," argh, cause I know some of that stuff I think is great now, later I'll think "Gak, whatEVER was I thinking!" I hope I improve like that...

Monday, April 30, 2007

"Not Frightening, Just Strange..."
8:24pm


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