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Getty Open Content Images

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Another awesome digital archive:  The Getty Museum/Foundation/Research and Conservation Institute has a search gateway were you can find some fabulous images, plenty of which are within the public domain.  Check out GSG: highlights=Open Content Images.

I am fascinated by Daguerreotype and silver prints.  Did you know that Daguerreotypes captured the weave of the cloth and the stitching on the clothes of people who sat for portraits?  That is just fabulous!  It is endlessly enlargeable, what modern camera can say that?

Levi in the pm again

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Hello lovely people.  Again, I am pushing my deadline.  A new page of Levi Levi will be up by tonight.  I had stalled on a what’s-gonna-happen-next, but I know now and I know how, so I’m hoping to amass some pages for regularly scheduled posting where I am not inking and scanning Thursday night (like I will tonight).

Little rhymes

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Hey, I found this thing I did in my Evernote:

Solomon Schmidt was a solemn little boy
With a compulsive obsession for mathematics lessons
He eschewed any game and denied any toy
In favor of savoring divisors of seven
I have to share it because I used the word eschewed.

more waiting waiting waiting

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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand, Levi Levi chapter one and the Monster girls zine shipped from the printer!  I’m keeping my fingers crossed that since its a Florida to Florida it will be a quick delivery, but it probably will be the standard time of any shipment.  sigh.

Recipes: the appetizer series

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minibakedpotatoAs I was drawing out my little appetizers, I noticed how alike they all look.  At least they look alike in black and white line art.  But then, many appetizers share the key characteristic of being finger foods.  They are bite sized and usually do not require any type of serving/dining wear.  They are like little pill capsules of food, and this is why (I say) all my pictures look alike.

On with the recipe:  Mini Potato Halves.  Ingredients:  I like to get the net bag of mini Yukon Gold potatoes, but any mini potato will do.  You will also need sour cream, shredded cheese, bacon and chives.

Instructions:  1.) empty the little potatoes into a big pot with some water and boil until manage-ably soft.  2.)  let cool enough to handle.  3.)  slice in half and spoon out a good portion of the innards (put aside in a bowl);  line hollowed halves on a foil lined cookie tray; water your plants with the potato water.  4.) add an entire small potato or two to the separated innards, combine with sour cream, shredded cheese, bacon bits, and chives; mash all into paste.  5.) spoon or pipe paste into hollowed halves and top with bacon piece.  6.) bake at 350 until edges are brown (I estimate 30 min.).

A little something different

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Girls003Richard of DM says these don’t look anything like my other characters…And I tried some new ideas on the sketch-color-line process.  I like how it came out.  I am not sure who they are, but when I find out I’ll let you know.

Doodling

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Image (27)So, this dude is one of the left over scans from my last sketchbook.  He was hanging out, waiting for me to remember him.  I think maybe he will end up in Your Name Here.  

Comics and challenges like Inktober are the only time that I scan work as I get it done.  Usually, I like to finish a sketchbook and then scan it all.  Then I’ll work on whatever needs to be worked on and let it trickle out on the Bean.  I feel as though it’s been slow goings lately.  My last sketchbook seemed to take forever to fill up, so I caved and scanned it mid way.

Oh and, today’s page for Levi Levi is ready to go, but won’t post until this evening.

morning

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There is a sliver at the edge of the window where the morning sun comes in from the side and paints a line of light on the wall of the bedroom.

Young Levi sketch

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I’ve been looking for this

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Years ago, I undertook the ransacking of my memory to create an exhaustive list of books I’ve read.  You might think that was crazy, one of my best friends did.  And I probably did fail to remember some of the stories I had read during my near thirty years of life (at the time).  But I used some tricks and did some searching and came up with something that was pretty complete.

Eventually, all I was left with were those books for which I could remember the cover or a few plot points, but could never find the right thing.  The Things I Did For Love is just such a book – THE final book plot and cover details that haunted my memory and would not allow me to simply write off that I could not write it down in my Great Read It list.

Thanks to CLIQUEY PIZZA 2: more 80’s teen book series & pop culture, I now know what the title of this dang book is, and the author, and I can put it on my Read It list for good.  In fact, once I read the Cliquey Pizza coverage on The Things I Did For Love, I automatically went out and re-purchased a copy that I intend to re-read just because it has been a massive thorn in my list for so long!  …and because I’m not quite done reliving the cheesy teen romances that I used to love.

Thank you Cliquey Pizza for saving my list!  Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

ridiculously tiny site update

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greenbubbleEven thought it’s itty bitty, it tickles me.  Allow me to draw, for you, a picture:  I am adding a link to my homepage. While making the update, I am simply not satisfied with how it looks.  I want some type of line highlight to indicate a new item, but I don’t want to use a bullet list tag ’cause I don’t want the indent.  So I open up my handy dandy Corel Paint and make a teeny tiny, itty bitty dot.  I name him dot, and I load him up as an image.

Now let me explain why this is big for me.  I’ve worked on several web pages that have itty bitty image files to fancify their icons and type, but I’ve never done it before.  This is a fancy first.  I love my dot.  I do.

Chronicles of Plastic Deer | Swoon Reads

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My homage to the teen romances of my youth, Chronicles of Plastic Deer, is now on Swoon Reads.  Swoon Reads is new publisher site to harvest crowd rating and feedback on a book in order to determine whether or not it should be published.  So…kind of like a publisher’s own fiction board.

It solves two problems of mine:  not know where to put the full text of my book and getting involved in a community of like minded creators (which I’ve been told I need to do).

New covers

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New story/book covers have been added for “Peachtree” and Intervening Variable.  I’m working on Intervening Variable now in the hopes of finishing it once and for all.  Next on the list was my sci-fi 800 Square Miles.  Is it bad that I have already begun brainstorming for two new novels besides?

Now that moving is done, perhaps I can knock out some old writing in order to pull out something new for November NaNoWriMo.  How have I been doing at camp, you ask?  Horrible, so far.  I guess it was really too soon to jump into a month long creative commitment when I still had boxes and clean-out projects to tackle.

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