Sunday morning and I'm going to opus art supply store
to look for their resin, I guess. I'm a lot more timid today than usual so I'm not
looking forward to this drive.
car haul! so I just got these Dixie Cups for that thing I got
I got this big Manila pad because I wanted to try eco dyeing and I didn't
wanna try on fancy paper because eco dyeing is not really permanent. gloves, for
reasons you'll see in a minute. i got this artresin. see how tiny these
bottles are? eight ounces for about forty dollars. so i probably wont buy that again unless i really need it. measuring cups!
but i also got these acryla gouaches. I know that I've already tried acryla gouache
and I already have acrylic gouache, but they had these and i wanted them so bad.
they're pastel, like tints, so this would eliminate my need
for buying white which is my problem with acrylic gouache. is that I only ever
really want to use tints and so I run out of white and then that's it! I can't
really use... I don't really have a use for the acryla gouache anymore so I'm excited
about that. and these were on sale for $5.50 a tube so, big day.
i can't tell if this really worked that will or if I should try it again. I know
that I was kind of doing a sort of half-hearted attempt because I'm not
boiling it for a specific amount of time. I just pour boiling water on it. maybe
that isn't good enough but I'm not sure entirely what... maybe this is as good as it
gets I don't know. there's definitely stuff happening. if I should try it again
but in a slightly different way? I don't know if I'm gonna be able to stay awake
tonight
I've been on deep cleaning duty at work but I'm the only employee there so I've
been scrubbing for hours. super tired. but i got all these leaves! it's already Thursday mmm
tomorrow, my friend is doing some kind of presentation im wanting to go to. oh I
dyed my hands a little bit. looks really bad sorry
um because I was um soaking the rusted metal pieces in vinegar this time for
the Eco dyeing experiment and I ended up dipping my fingers into it to get the
pieces out and I dyed myself. I started drawing this tree while we were finishing
the last of um the haunting of Hill House last night. such a good show. was
just really refreshing um to have like a horror... well... film or
series or whatever... that actually has time to build up characters that you
actually like or dislike or get to know. because I find that a lot of
horror movies for example they usually just have these generic
characters so that you don't feel too bad about them
and bad things happening to them and stuff like that. and the people
who get haunted or get murdered or whatever are usually just random
stand-ins for plot development so it's really interesting
the particular combination of terror and sadness. it's unusual for me anyway
maybe I'm just missing out in a lot of stuff? I dont watch a lot of television
so it's Saturday and not much is going on
I haven't ironed my papers yet. I went to my friend's art event last night and
what she does is intuitive readings. never give me a piece
of paper because I will just destroy it. anyway, these were all hidden under our
seats so I got a tree. and it says things about trees. they're just like
random messages . people got personalized messages there but I didn't
want to do that... I don't want to have a bunch of people staring at me so
yeah that was fun. it was really cool. if I remember I'll probably put a link to a
website or something in the description. today I was going to pretty
much have the apartment to myself all weekend but um John made it all the way
to where he was going before realizing that they had rescheduled for next
weekend so. yeah. it kinda sucks cuz I was thinking maybe I should
get some stuff done even though it's 10:30 in the morning and I slept in to
like 8:30 and I'm tired. but also I feel obligated to go out. but he's
probably gonna be way too tired of being on the bus all morning to go anywhere. and
it might rain again. I don't know. I would probably do nothing
and accomplish nothing and then do it again next weekend. this cannot be good
for you. I'm soaking the metal in vinegar
and made this nasty-ass rust water which i think is what causes...you
know which makes reaction with the leaves and the tannins
and stuff. but the leaves went black, so I don't know how much of that was related
to actually getting colors in the leaves or if it's just iron oxide soaking into
the paper. and I don't know if that's good or not. if it's gross, if it's
bad for me to be touching stuff? I don't know kind of nasty