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Seasonal Animations






Animations Just for Fun

New Bugs!!!

I made new bugs. Happiness!

I haven't done any wirework stuff in a while. A cousin requested to have one commissioned for a friend and I couldn't say no even though my neck and arm is not recovered yet so I made...


Antfly

After I finished all my chores I went on to make...

White Ant and...


Mookie G!


Princess Antela

I just can't stop making these critters. That's why I haven't made any in a while. I wont' be able to stop until my arm and hand hurts. Oh, well. I'll risk it. I need the creative fix and the members of my previous bug menagerie are now with their new charges so I could use new guardians.

New Visual Journal Pages

Hi everyone.

Here are some of the new pages I've been working on during my sick leave.



This is the frontispiece of my current journal. I made this right after I've seen Mirror mask several times during the day. I was quite inspired by the cathedral shaped like the key and made these houses with adjoining stairs that goes up to the sky.

This is the right half of the frontispiece. I drew this while waiting at the social security office and at the doctor's waiting hall.


This is the title page.




The table of contents.

Here's a self-portrait where I used the sonograpm print out. There's a text page that's a bit dramatic for general consumption, I think. This one's mostly part of the process of acceptance and healing.


Here's another one of those healing process pages again. I made this 3 weeks after the hysto.


The more recent is this one on rotten baggages.

Paintings for a Newly Married Couple

My niece, Brooke was married this weekend, these are paintings which are her wedding present. It started with the sentence I read in a book long ago (in German) "Ich bin geheirated um nimmer mehr allein zu früschtükken". (spelling may be off here, my German is a bit rusty) which means "I got married so I'd never have to eat breakfast alone again"

Playing with Matt

Matt is one of my best friends, favourite playmates, and baby brother. Did I say baby? He is 42 years old, 6 foot 1, and near 300 pounds (15 stone).

Anywhoo, our friendship has its roots in our childhood, such as it was. Matt was born with severe asthma and at least once a month we were in the emergency room because he was in so much distress he was turning faintly blue.

Back in the 60's asthma was treated with injections of Adrenaline and Sussferin(a 24-hour fight or flight reaction) and then Tedral tablets for maintenance.

So of course Matt would be wound up like the proverbial eight-day clock, while Mum and Jim slept, Matt and I (the born night owl) would be awake; playing so quietly in the living room.

Matt has always loved sports of all kinds, and especially statistics, so we would play the sports board games. Our two favourites were baseball and boxing, we had such fits of the giggles over 'the killer instinct' that was figured in when a boxer was cut and started to bleed.

That is how our friendship has remained, how we play has changed very little in feel, and expression as well. We will make a 'Music Store Raid' and buy 2 different CD's, then a pair of bottles of imported beers, settle into his room and listen to the CD's, pausing often to point out some background vocals or instrument. We watch Discovery Channel, History Channel, Animal Planet, oh, and Comedy Central and babble back and forth during the commercials.

The other night we were watching a one-hour programme on 'Evil'. They were talking about devils, satanists, and the number 666. As an illustration they showed this comical little red imp. Matt asked what it was and I told him it was an imp.

He nearly fell of his bed laughing, there were tears standing in his eyes he was that undone by mirth. When he finally calmed he started singing this doggerell as an ode to busy imps.

"Running here,
Running there.
Running everywhere.
Gotta find me someone
And poke 'em somewhere.
O Hell Yeah!"

I could not leave it there, so I wandered about the 'Net searching for appropriate images. Once I had found and saved them I 'played' with them, making them into a sort of collage with the words interspersed through the images. Below is the image as it stands for the moment.

I like clouds

How ironic it is that someone who is fascinated by clouds, and enjoys thunder-and-snow-storms should live in a state where it is said that "The sun shines 360 days a year.". I have long been in the habit of taking my camera with me wherever I go, and take pictures of all sorts of clouds regularly. Perhaps one day I will make a collage of storm clouds... if I can make it work the way I wish!!

When storms do reach the desert, especially the 'Monsoons' they arrive in violent glory. Winds hiss through the palo verde leaves and swirl bougainvillea blossoms
into miniature deep rose coloured dust devils. The clouds come, grumbling amongst themselves across the flat expanse of the 'Real Desert', dropping and darkening to near black as they come. Between explosive snarls of thunder and lightning that cuts the sky into jagged wedges the winds gain force and direction.