a bounding deer
Apr. 12th, 2020 01:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asakiyumeI decided to buy some street-art-quality chalks and see how long they last (answer: not long! This would be an expensive hobby...)
And I drew this...
The nice thing about chalk art is you can keep on tinkering with it. I might add more red to the face.
I also ended up decorating my jeans:
The healing angel and her significant other are living across our household and the significant other's household (yes: we know--we consider ourselves all one infection/virus family), and yesterday evening they were over, and we all watched Frozen II together, which was relaxing. I enjoyed seeing the sisters' different hairstyles, and the songs were fun. The plot was a little lurchy, but it seemed like it advanced both sisters further along good-for-them trajectories and that it gave young fans more of what they liked.
Then the healing angel and her significant other retired to the healing angel's room, and Waka and I watched the Easter vigil streamed from our church. In addition to the priest, there was a cantor and some readers--the cantor sang the Exsultet, which gladdened my heart.
And I drew this...
The nice thing about chalk art is you can keep on tinkering with it. I might add more red to the face.
I also ended up decorating my jeans:
The healing angel and her significant other are living across our household and the significant other's household (yes: we know--we consider ourselves all one infection/virus family), and yesterday evening they were over, and we all watched Frozen II together, which was relaxing. I enjoyed seeing the sisters' different hairstyles, and the songs were fun. The plot was a little lurchy, but it seemed like it advanced both sisters further along good-for-them trajectories and that it gave young fans more of what they liked.
Then the healing angel and her significant other retired to the healing angel's room, and Waka and I watched the Easter vigil streamed from our church. In addition to the priest, there was a cantor and some readers--the cantor sang the Exsultet, which gladdened my heart.
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Date: 2020-04-12 08:25 pm (UTC)That's wonderful.
I'm glad you could watch the Easter vigil.
My mother was surprisingly impressed with Frozen II, having not seen the first one.
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Date: 2020-04-13 01:56 am (UTC)I think my niece filled her in a lot.
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Date: 2020-04-13 01:59 am (UTC)One night when there was a blackout, we came up the darkened street, and as the headlights lit up the driveway there were two deer, standing there. It was as if without streetlight, everything was theirs again--kind of like the stories we get (some real, some not) about wildlife returning to or coming into various areas now that there are so few people around. ... I guess my drawing doesn't really relate all that much to that phenomenon, but it popped into my head, so...
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Date: 2020-04-13 12:17 pm (UTC)I haven't yet got out the street chalks and gone out to make a picture. Maybe as a break from gardening when the weather dries and warms. For now I'm glad of the snow.
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Date: 2020-04-13 12:21 pm (UTC)It's good though; I enjoy that about chalk--there's always a clean slate, sometimes sooner than later.
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Date: 2020-04-13 12:32 pm (UTC)I could only afford a few colors (these things are NOT crayola chalks), so I got red, yellow, orange, blue, green, and white. If I ever get back to having more than one freelance job a month, maybe I'll get more, but then again, if I get more than one freelance job a month, I won't have as much time on my hands, and plus, I'm hoping my brain adjusts to our new reality enough to let me write a little more. So far I've only managed to finish up one project, but free-ranging creative thought for the next project? Hard to marshal.
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Date: 2020-04-13 12:35 pm (UTC)Yeah, I'm feeling similarly blocked on creative projects. I keep nagging myself: This time is a gift!
But, you know.
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Date: 2020-04-13 12:41 pm (UTC)PS Fair disclosure: this is the first time I have bought fancypants street pastels. There may be better brands, but these seem good to me.
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Date: 2020-04-13 01:41 pm (UTC)It sounds like you had a lovely evening. :)
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Date: 2020-04-13 02:14 pm (UTC)I know I'm late with Something :-) It's coming though.
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Date: 2020-06-10 09:37 pm (UTC)That is a beautiful deer, and I'm glad to know about the source of your street pastels, too!
Although the pose and the colors are different, your deer reminded me of imagery on some wonderful Indigenous ceramics of the Southwest and Northern Mexico, both ancient and modern:
Mimbres bowl (ancient)
Mimbres-style olla by Lucy Lewis of Acoma Pueblo, (modern)
Acoma fine-line plate by Carolyn Concho of Acoma Pueblo (modern)
Polychrome bowl by Randy Nahohai of Zuñi Pueblo (modern)
(I love this stuff!)
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