tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48980968269299083702024-02-15T17:03:26.134+10:00VonnyK Art VONNYK ART .......... Paintings in water colour, acrylic and oil, on anything that takes my fancy.
VonnyKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01291487117518421755noreply@blogger.comBlogger194125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4898096826929908370.post-18638318282355231752016-05-05T14:05:00.001+10:002016-05-05T14:05:42.727+10:00Souping and gooping.<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've decided to not paint birds for a little while. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's mainly because I was seeing them in my sleep</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and all that fluttering and squawking was keeping me awake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now I have the dilemma of what to paint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The water lily painting was okay and so</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm embarking on a wet, dribbly, abstracty,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pondy sort of series.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Okay, I admit it was only cos I just couldn't think</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> what else to paint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I tried flowers but the old flower in a vase just isn't me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love the ones that other people do</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> but I'm too much of a bull at a gate type of person</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> to get that delicate look.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then there was the landscape idea, it lasted two seconds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sorry, I just don't do landscapes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In fact I got a headache just sitting in front of the computer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">trying to find something to paint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I thought stuff it....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I went into my painting room, picked up some old canvasses,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">well one old one and one new one that just didn't work,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and just started to have some fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hey, what does it matter if it doesn't work,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">they were poopy paintings anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All I had in my mind was loose lilies and dribbles,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">well mind mind is pretty much all dribbles but now it's dribblier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First I had to slop gesso over the paintings, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">then the fun began. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Remember this one, well it just wasn't doin' it for me,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so I went through my old bags of goop</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and decided to use some up on the background.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Normally I'd be panicking and worried about getting everything just right</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but this time I just let loose and had some fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There was goop going everywhere,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I even got some on the canvas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is layer 692, if you count </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">all the layers on the old painting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Looks kind of yuk but I'm havin' fun and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">there's a long way to go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Check out those delicious cracks that formed in the gesso.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Either the whole thing will fall off when I ink it or </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I could get some fabulous texture peeking through.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a hideous painting I did many years ago,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know, what was I thinking.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I slopped a little gesso on, mainly to stop her looking at me,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and then got out my old bags of gesso soup (secret recipe)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and had a ball. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now for the painful part, waiting for it to dry</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sigh.........</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Only 200 more layers to go and they're finished.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Simple!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This weekend I had some time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to myself, which is really not the norm</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well the truth is, I decided it was too</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hot for housework, so I went into</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my art room and played.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been toying with the idea of doing a really loose</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">almost (but not quite) abstract painting, just to see if </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my tightwad brain will allow my hand to do it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of course I didn't know where to start, so I picked up my </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"left overs" canvas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm sure you all have one somewhere around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's the little canvas that you put all your left over goop,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">inks and bits of stuff that are left over</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> but you don't want to waste.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mine was looking like this</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Yep, I'm with you, eww, ick and poo, so I got out</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now I have to say that I'm really proud of my brain for</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> allowing my hand to slop that stuff on so loosely and not try to make it all perfect and pretty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mind you I did have Queen playing super loud, much to my teenage daughter's (she has no taste) disgust. I always think the loud noise cancels out the brain noise. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then came the hard part (for me anyway), </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the chocking under the little canvas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You'd think I'd could get it right as it's only about 45cm across but no, I had to go and stuff it up as usual. Too many lumps under the canvas, in hindsight I only needed one chock in the middle but there you go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The ink was looking good at first ....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> starting to flow nicely, so I added the other colours and </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The ink was flowing away from the chocked bits and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> added some side packing and lots more ink.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and I have the most delicious ripples and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll probably play with it to brighten it up a bit </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(much to my teacher's disgust I'm sure). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> But, I'll keep it loose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now for the hard part.... I might try this on a big canvas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh boy, this could get really interesting and super scary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There could be an almighty battle going on between little blonde, super tight arse brain and little left hand. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Wow, I can't believe two months have gone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">by since I last posted, time flies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I've been painting and gooping up a storm</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and I'm currently working on </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">six canvasses. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">one is hiding, that's the portrait of my girls.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> and one in here. This is zombie bird, until I paint in the face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There are lots of pics on the desk, that's where I put</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">called gesso soup. I'm currently trying to learn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This background is gesso soup and I'm going to goop the bird,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">the birdies bum today. Well, I have to say, it's no fun</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">putting a palette knife up where the sun don't shine!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> My latest jellies have gesso soup coral.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I think that worked quite well, I just can't get </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I'll keep it short and sweet this week,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">mainly cos little miss has an orthodontics appointment</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and I have to go (darn kids).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now you've seen mine, have a look at some</span></div>
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I had a plumber in to replace the old taps</div>
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in the upstairs bathrooms</div>
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(you can guess where this is going already can't you)</div>
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and the gremlins thought it would be funny </div>
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to make one of the taps leak.</div>
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Not just a little leak mind you but a leak of epic proportions!</div>
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When the plumber turned on the water it flowed full bore</div>
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under the vanity, down through the hole where the pipes go &</div>
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We had a magnificent waterfall pouring down,</div>
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straight onto my daughter's business computer!!!</div>
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You could hear her scream for miles.</div>
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We grabbed a bucket and tipped the keyboard </div>
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upside down to drain and would you believe it has</div>
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all dried out and is working perfectly</div>
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as is the light, after an electrician played with it.</div>
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To my desk....</div>
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I had my secretary/foot model with me today.</div>
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thongs (flip flops to some) under the coffee table and</div>
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I've started adding the eyes to my girls' portrait.</div>
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and only portrait I'll ever do.</div>
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It's really doing my head in....the pressure to get it right</div>
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and the whinging from the peanut gallery that is</div>
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my girls'. </div>
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I'm nearing the end of good photos of lorikeets now,</div>
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so if anyone has some fabulous ones and they</div>
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don't mind sharing, I'd love to hear from you. </div>
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I still love doing these bright crazy birds, </div>
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just need good photos of them on Aussie native flowers</div>
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and you all know how bad my photographic skills are!</div>
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That's me for this week, it's school pickup time (oh joy), </div>
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why not go to</div>
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and see all the other desks from around the world.</div>
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I thought I had missed a couple of weeks</div>
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with my blog and wow it's been over </div>
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a month since I last annoyed you all.</div>
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Can't have that now can we.</div>
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(Warning, lots of catching up to do so WOYWWer's</div>
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Actually it's me who's been annoyed.</div>
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Annoyed by the mess gremlins.</div>
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These are the tidier shots, you should see what's on</div>
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the floor in the corner.</div>
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Now I know what you're thinking... she's just made the mess</div>
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all by herself. Well I protest.... okay, so maybe some</div>
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of it is me but most is those pesky</div>
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messy gremlins.</div>
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Just look at the ground sheet all wavied up and</div>
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trippy overy squishy crumpled. </div>
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There's no way I could have done all that.</div>
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I just walk carefully (cough, cough) around from table</div>
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to table. Those gremlins come in at night when I'm not </div>
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around and play twister - I'm sure of it.</div>
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And they go into my other room </div>
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Those pesky beasts even got into my washing machine</div>
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the other day and it wouldn't stop filling.</div>
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Of course that happened while I was taking Little Miss</div>
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to school, so the floors and anything within a fifty mile radius</div>
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had a really thorough clean.</div>
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Not content to mess up my washing machine they then</div>
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attacked my kettle, which has started leaking water</div>
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all over the base plate.</div>
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I tell you, they are trying to get me.</div>
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I'll either drown while doing the washing,</div>
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get electrocuted while making a cuppa or</div>
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trip over and clunk my head while walking in my art room.</div>
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If anyone knows how to make those devils leave</div>
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I've finished a few paintings since I last posted,</div>
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there was the commission piece </div>
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(which is the reason for my absence from the blogosphere)</div>
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Then I finished my bird painting </div>
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Lots of squidly didlyness there but still a long way to go.</div>
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You can see my hanging bird in the second picture up the top.</div>
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He's looking really scary cos his face is in it's underwear.</div>
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I've just started mapping it out and he's rather naked</div>
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Speaking of scary, I'm currently doing the </div>
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A portrait of my girls ( cue Phycho shower scene violin music).</div>
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Now don't panic, I'm not going to plaster them all over the</div>
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screen and turn you off in droves, you know the Oh no,</div>
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not another mother putting up the kids photos, sort of thing.</div>
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I'm a bit funny about them being up for the world to</div>
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look at so I don't put any photos of them up or paintings.</div>
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Not that I'm blowing my own horn and saying that</div>
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it is a great likeness or anything...mainly cos it isn't</div>
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and boy is it hard to draw them.</div>
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I've waffled on a bit already so I'll tell you all about</div>
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the pain that is my portrait painting next week.</div>
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Now you've heard my long winded tale,</div>
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why not hop over to</div>
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and see what the others have been up to </div>
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on their desks.</div>
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Every Wednesday people from all </div>
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around the world show what's on their desk</div>
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Here's my desk from the lovely tropical</div>
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Well, maybe that's a slight exaggeration but there has</div>
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Okay, here's my desk but first let me wipe the </div>
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The picture might be a little blurry as my knees are knocking from the cold.</div>
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I'm painting birds in this room and</div>
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gooping and inking in this room tomorrow.</div>
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(If you look carefully you might catch a glimpse</div>
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of that polar bear in the street).</div>
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I have a whole new respect for the people who live way up</div>
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the top of the northern hemisphere. </div>
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How do you stay warm???</div>
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There aren't enough clothes in the city to keep me warm.</div>
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Goodness, if this keeps up I'll have to buy a heater!!!</div>
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Winter school holidays have put a dent in my painting time</div>
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but I have managed to do some more to the birds. </div>
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This is a step away from my usual bright paintings</div>
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and I've gotta say, it just isn't me. </div>
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I like in your face bright colour and this is just</div>
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a tad too pookcack for me.</div>
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Personally I blame that darn "Polar Vortex"</div>
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(that's what the newspapers are calling it).</div>
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It's so cold that my brain had a white out moment</div>
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and created snow in the background.</div>
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When I get the feeling back into my frozen fingers</div>
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I'm going to brighten up the birds and the front flowers</div>
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and never do an over poocacked painting again!</div>
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To my friends up there in England,</div>
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yes you know who you are (LLJ).</div>
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You've had your fun, now give us back</div>
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our nice hot weather and take back your</div>
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rotten cold stuff before something</div>
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snaps off, like my nose!! </div>
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I'm playing in the big room today</div>
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cos it's freezing in the </div>
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small one.</div>
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You can see all the bits n pieces </div>
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I'm playing with</div>
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I've prepped a canvas on the long table,</div>
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in the front left is a half gooped canvas and the</div>
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finished canvas is on the easel.</div>
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I love being able to spread out. </div>
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I'm over at the desk by the window </div>
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gooping a bird in poocack colours.</div>
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Yes you read that right, I'm doing</div>
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this poor bird in poocack.</div>
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You can't see much yet, it's the little bluey blobs</div>
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bottom left. Here are the mixed colours of goop</div>
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Some of you may say they are bright but</div>
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I see mud and dirty colours.</div>
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Even my mouth turns down when I put this stuff on.</div>
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It's my own fault that I have to make it poocack,</div>
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you see I got carried away with the </div>
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gesso soup and the flowers are too big,</div>
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so I have to make the birdie move back</div>
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to stay in perspective.</div>
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I will paint the flying bird nice and bright.</div>
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A few posts ago</div>
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<a href="http://vonnykart.blogspot.com.au/2015/05/you-lookin-at-me.html" target="_blank">here</a> if you missed it</div>
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I mentioned that I was getting</div>
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graduated (multifocal) glasses.</div>
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I picked them up and oh dear.</div>
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Follow my nose they said, </div>
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that would have been fine if I could see my nose!</div>
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I couldn't see a thing, total blur out.</div>
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The only way I knew</div>
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I'd missed the doorway and hit the wall</div>
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was if it hurt!!</div>
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I was really starting to think I was a true blonde but </div>
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it turns out the lady didn't fit the glasses to my eyes.</div>
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A trip back to the optometrist and a few bends</div>
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and melting of plastic and</div>
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I can see!!!</div>
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I feel drunk if I move my head too quickly</div>
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but I'm getting there.</div>
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Maybe I should have left them blurred</div>
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while I'm doing the poocack bird,</div>
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might have been easier on my nerves.</div>
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Well that's mine for this week.</div>
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Have a look at some other desks</div>
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around the world at</div>
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<a href="http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Julia's Stamping Ground </a></div>
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this Workdesk Wednesday </div>
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We had my kind of cookery lessons</div>
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in art class today.</div>
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There wasn't an oven or a saucepan in sight.</div>
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My teacher has invented a new</div>
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technique and has called it</div>
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Gesso Soup.</div>
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It's probably the only cooking</div>
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It involves gesso (well duh), water,</div>
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paint, bags, onions, noodles,</div>
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and a whole lot of</div>
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slopping and glooping.</div>
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Yes, it looks a bit garish but it will lay almost flat</div>
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when it dries and this technique is guaranteed</div>
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to cure all sorts of ills, just like chicken soup. </div>
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There is already a textured layer of goop</div>
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under here and this will add to the texture</div>
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without texturing. </div>
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Yes, it's texture without texture.</div>
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No I haven't gone stark raving mad</div>
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(well any more than usual).</div>
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It looks really textured but it is in fact</div>
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virtually flat and then it's easier to paint on</div>
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and I can add texture only where I want it.</div>
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See.... really clever huh.</div>
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I've finished my bird and just sealed it</div>
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It's all shiny from the sealer and hard to get a photo.</div>
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My boat is finished too.</div>
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They are both going into a show soon,</div>
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hope they sell.</div>
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so I hope to get around to lots of WOYWWer's</div>
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but if I don't it's because of the glasses.</div>
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I explained the problem in my last post</div>
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If you want to see other desks</div>
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around the world today,</div>
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go over to </div>
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and have a visit.</div>
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I'm going to cook up some more soup,</div>
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mwa ha ha.</div>
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that I've given my bird painting</div>
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that I've finished at long last.</div>
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Well, look at that face, doesn't</div>
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it just say "You lookin' at me?".</div>
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The second title is a little more scary</div>
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as I think that it'll be me saying that </div>
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after thursday next week.</div>
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Why??</div>
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Well, I've finally done something that's </div>
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either very dumb or rather clever,</div>
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(keeping in mind that I'm blonde).</div>
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I've ordered a pair of graduated glasses</div>
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cos I'm fed up with wearing two pairs</div>
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and yes that is at once.</div>
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If I need to see something more than three feet away</div>
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I need my long distance glasses</div>
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but to see anything close up I need my reading glasses</div>
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and many a time I have both pairs balanced precariously</div>
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upon my nose.</div>
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So it's graduated glasses for me.</div>
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Now I'm going to call them layered glasses</div>
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because I only went to grade 12 </div>
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(high school to non Aussie countries)</div>
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and I'm blowed if I'll put some stuck up glasses</div>
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onto my nose that think they are better than me</div>
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and "graduated" college.</div>
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So layered it is, just like my paintings</div>
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layer upon layer of goop</div>
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When I went to order my glasses they kept on</div>
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saying, you'll adjust to them easily,</div>
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just follow your nose.</div>
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Now that is a scary thing in itself,</div>
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imagine following your nose everywhere.</div>
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If my nose is a bit bent at the end</div>
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I could find myself spinning around in endless circles</div>
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just like a dog with it's tail.</div>
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Or I could be permanently cross eyed</div>
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trying to focus on my nose and nothing else.</div>
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Argh, the mind boggles.</div>
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What have I done??</div>
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At least I was a little clever,</div>
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I've finished all of my paintings for</div>
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an upcoming show.</div>
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They just need sealing now</div>
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I should have at least three coats on the boat</div>
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before the dreaded layered eyes arrive</div>
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and I've drawn up and started another canvas.</div>
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Linking up to<a href="http://paintpartyfriday.blogspot.com.au/2015/05/paint-party-friday-week-12-year-5-check.html" target="_blank"> PPF</a>. </div>
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as my kids would say, for two weeks.</div>
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Yes, it was the dread of all parents,</div>
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school holidays.</div>
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I survived with just a little bit of art but now</div>
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One good thing I did on the holidays was</div>
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to get a huge skip bin, toss out heaps of</div>
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to take over the lounge (mwa ha ha).</div>
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See that big space in the middle, </div>
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I'm going to get a huge piece of heavy plastic</div>
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and use my long fold up table to do lots of sloppy</div>
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prep coats on lots of canvasses at once. </div>
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That way I can keep on working in my studio.</div>
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It'll be like a big production line of canvasses</div>
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all at different stages. </div>
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You may notice that I have a lot more inks on my Ikea</div>
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trolley and in the pot on the floor. I came into some</div>
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unexpected money!!!</div>
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Remember this painting that I took to a show?</div>
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It sold and I won the Peoples' Choice Prize!!</div>
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bought a heap of inks to play with.</div>
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I am going to attempt to ink this canvas</div>
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at home, all by myself with no De Gillett,</div>
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my lovely teacher, to help stop me screwing it up.</div>
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So, if you feel the earth rumbling and shaking tomorrow,</div>
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don't panic, it's just my knees knocking together in fear</div>
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as I squirt copious amounts of ink all over my canvas.</div>
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I have a paper bag handy just in case of hyperventilation,</div>
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hmm, might need it now just thinking of what I'm doing</div>
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tomorrow.... ARGH....</div>
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While I go suck on a paper bag,</div>
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may I suggest you go over to</div>
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Breath in, breath out,</div>
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yep that feels a bit better,</div>
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just hope I can keep it together tomorrow...</div>
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My desk this week is pretty bare</div>
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and waiting for me to start</div>
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back on my bird painting</div>
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I've been madly painting</div>
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eyes and beaks this week.</div>
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My parrots were living up to their</div>
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cheeky, naughty reputation</div>
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by fighting me all the way.</div>
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I just couldn't get the beak right on the front bird,</div>
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I was pulling my hair out at one</div>
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stage and all that did was hurt,</div>
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me, not the bird. </div>
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After a lot of swearing and threatening </div>
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to wring their rotten necks,</div>
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they finally started to co-operate</div>
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and the faces were in</div>
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They'll need a little bit of tinkering but almost there.</div>
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I resisted the urge to add rings through the beaks</div>
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as I knew their punkness would be toned down</div>
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in class today.</div>
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Tone down is an understatement.</div>
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Those who know me well, know that I really</div>
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hate the colour brown, don't know why,</div>
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but we discussed this in class today and the </div>
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general thought was that in the eighties, the colour </div>
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for most houses, both walls and fences was</div>
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mission brown. I don't know if you had that colour overseas</div>
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but here in Australia it was everywhere. If it stood still</div>
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it was painted mission brown. </div>
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The trouble was mission brown was the dullest</div>
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most ugly brown you've ever seen and my parents</div>
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loved it (ugh). </div>
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We think my hatred of this colour stems back to</div>
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seeing that awful hue everywhere and</div>
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having it burned into my retinas.</div>
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My lovely teacher, De decided</div>
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I should tone down the punk colour with, </div>
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you guessed it, brown....</div>
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Of course I hated it, so we compromised and</div>
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added some purple, much nicer but still very brown.</div>
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As usual and I say this with my eyes rolling,</div>
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she was right and the colour was just right.</div>
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Sorry about the picture angle and the lights shining.</div>
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The pic is still very wet and my arms are very short.</div>
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Here's one a bit closer.</div>
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My punk birds aren't so punky now.</div>
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I bet the top bird can't wait to get his feet painted so</div>
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he can land on the branch. I bet his wings are getting tired,</div>
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ha, that'll teach him for making it hard to paint the beak!</div>
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Next week I'm going to turn up to class with</div>
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written on my forehead,</div>
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that way I can just flash it at her each time she is right,</div>
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AGAIN!! (sigh)</div>
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Well, that's my week and desk.</div>
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If you visit</div>
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you can see what's on the other desks</div>
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around the world today.</div>
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It's been a big week again</div>
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with things happening on</div>
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four different canvasses.</div>
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Firstly to my desks</div>
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Some of you may remember that in a</div>
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moment of sheer madness a while ago</div>
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I cleaned up my studio</div>
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(I still shudder at the thought of it).</div>
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Well, you will be surprised to know that </div>
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it is still reasonably</div>
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(that might be stretching it a bit)</div>
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tidy</div>
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(please note, you can see the floor).</div>
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There is just a bit of mess on the desk but it looks </div>
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far worse than it actually is (cough, cough).</div>
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All those bits of paper up on the high notice board are</div>
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my filing system for phone numbers and</div>
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the rest are bits of paper with ideas on and general</div>
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junk that lands there.</div>
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This is my gooping station, where I put all my goop</div>
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in bags to keep it fresh and ready to play with.</div>
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Here is my storage area, where my paint, inks and </div>
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can't find my mojo, I look at all those lovely things</div>
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I haven't shown you all the corners, </div>
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hey a girl has to </div>
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have some secrets!!</div>
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So painting wise, I sealed my bird painting,</div>
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finished the jelly fish painting and sealed it as well.</div>
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Just have to add the hangers when it is really hard.</div>
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Most of the week I've been bent over my new bird canvas</div>
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and yes my back really aches.</div>
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I've nearly finished gooping, just the bird to go now.</div>
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I've got so much goop on that sucker</div>
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that it's gonna weigh more than me</div>
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and that's saying something!!</div>
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If you visited me last week you would have</div>
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seen my cockatoos <a href="http://vonnykart.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/tap-heaven-for-woyww.html" target="_blank">(here)</a>.</div>
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Well they have had a little change in attitude.</div>
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Oh yeah, this is really in your face type stuff.</div>
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I trust my teacher but this is pushing the envelope a tad.</div>
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There is a lot of glazing to come so it will quieten down some.</div>
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I am painting in the faces and feet this week,</div>
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hmm, wonder if I should paint in some piercings,</div>
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maybe on on an eyebrow and one through a beak.</div>
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this wednesday.</div>
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I have been madly working on</div>
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The Jellies are closest to finished so they are going</div>
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in along with my finished bird painting.</div>
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My desk is full of inky goodies</div>
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with bottles of straight ink and some mixed with clear ink</div>
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to make it less dark. I use a paint brush to glaze areas</div>
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that I want darker so the jellies stand out more.</div>
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I still have a bit of adjusting to do but you have to wait for</div>
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it to dry before doing the next layer, drives me nuts</div>
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and that's why I don't use oils anymore. </div>
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I also had some gooping fun with the bird I drew up last week</div>
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Still a long way to go but looking good so far.</div>
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My liposuction parrot (from last week) is looking really nice now</div>
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she's all inked up and raring to go...</div>
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Just need to do a head and foot transplant :)</div>
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Still some poocack to go into the background.</div>
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the best thing has happened...</div>
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I need new taps for our upstairs bathrooms</div>
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because the water is coming from the taps instead</div>
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of the spouts and I saw the perfect taps.</div>
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What does this tap remind you of????</div>
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The clue is standing behind the tap..</div>
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Every time I turn on the shower I can yell</div>
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My hubbie's gonna go nuts (mwa ha ha).</div>
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Well, that's mine for this week,</div>
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now why don't you have a look at the other</div>
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Just press <a href="http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">here</a></div>
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to go to <a href="http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Julia's Stamping Ground.</a></div>
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There's some ink calling my name, time</div>
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First to my desk,</div>
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it's the usual mess</div>
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I have my Doctor Who mug, which is a necessity</div>
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for creating, my gorgeous art journal cover,</div>
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In the centre is the photoshopped print of the next painting</div>
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I've just started. You can see I've marked out</div>
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all the points I need to draw it up on the canvas.</div>
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Here are the steps I've done so far.</div>
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You start with poo,</div>
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and you get a poocackarama!!</div>
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I became an art surgeon this week and </div>
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I performed my first artistic liposuction.</div>
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Mrs Cockatoo was complaining that she was was</div>
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far too fat,</div>
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and I had to agree, so I operated</div>
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I removed the excess fat and</div>
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re-sculpted her tummy to make a much</div>
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slimmer lady.</div>
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If anyone wants to lose a few pounds,</div>
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and doesn't mind being slapped with a soggy wet cloth</div>
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and dug with a pallette knife,</div>
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I'm available and kinda cheap</div>
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but never easy! </div>
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The cockies were inked today and they look great</div>
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but you'll have to take my word for it</div>
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as stupid here forgot to take a picture.</div>
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I could show you all the ink colours used </div>
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cos they are still all over my fingers.</div>
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I like to try to write down the colours of ink that were used</div>
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and it's a good way to remember,</div>
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I just look at my fingers and write it down.</div>
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Even then I still can't get the colour right on the next one.</div>
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I think I'm colour theory blind! </div>
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I inked some more of my jelly fish</div>
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slowly adding tentacles but still a way to go.</div>
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There was some other paint slopping as well</div>
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but nothing exciting.</div>
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Well, that bird isn't going to draw itself,</div>
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although I wish it would, so</div>
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that's it from me,</div>
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now how about you go and visit</div>
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and see what's on everyone elses</div>
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desk this wednesday.</div>
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My desk is all over this week,</div>
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here is where I sit and draw etc</div>
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How I ever get to draw amongst that lot I don't</div>
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know but it works.</div>
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I just pulled all my stuff out of the box </div>
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from art class today, so stuff all over the floor</div>
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and here is the lounge that I am slowly taking over.</div>
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I'm really gaining control now (mwa ha ha).</div>
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The only spot left is to the right of the room</div>
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and that is full with our book cases,</div>
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full of recipe books that people bought me over the years </div>
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a rowing machine and a treadmill.</div>
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As you can see the gym stuff is boxed in by old cupboards</div>
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and never used</div>
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but I think that just by them being there you can</div>
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lose weight (cough, cough).</div>
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I have finally joined the lovely peeps</div>
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Unfortunately my stamping is vastly different</div>
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to the talented ladies I visit.</div>
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It all started last week when I</div>
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Hubby gave me an old BBQ apron to use</div>
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to save what was left of my now very </div>
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colourful, white top.</div>
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So, with apron on, I started to goop my birds</div>
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I'm always careful to work from right to left and top to bottom</div>
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I was leaning over to do the white of the bird at the top</div>
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and my belly was hanging over the canvas</div>
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which squished the yellow flower on the bottom of the</div>
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well I didn't know it was all over the</div>
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getting a glass of water, </div>
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saying hi to the parrot,</div>
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cleaning some bits in the laundry (you get the idea).</div>
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To my horror there were bright yellow</div>
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as it had gone hard by then.</div>
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but I am a belly stamper.</div>
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Hmm, that could make an interesting canvas,</div>
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multi coloured belly stamps but why stop there,</div>
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how about bum stamps as well.</div>
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so if you want a giggle</div>
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have a l<a href="http://vonnykart.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/slopping-slapping-and-dribbling-madness.html" target="_blank">ook here</a></div>
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with lots of things to play with.</div>
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I've been both in mad scientist mode</div>
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I think the mad scientist is more fun.</div>
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in class and was hyperventilating.</div>
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to scare the living daylights out of me.</div>
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Picture me, almost finished a painting and carefully</div>
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spattering little bits of ink all happy and gentle, </div>
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then up from the depths comes a hand which grabs my brush.</div>
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My eyes get wider and then it happens,</div>
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spatter, spatter spatter with careless abandon</div>
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Panic sets in, screams (just little tanty ones)</div>
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and then the hyperventilating starts.</div>
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All while there is an evil glean in my teachers eye</div>
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as she beats up on my dainty painting.</div>
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Down on the floor it's tossed (well, placed carefully really) </div>
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oh, that looks great.</div>
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The green splots really look good.</div>
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My teacher, (yes, I bet you're still giggling at me)</div>
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or she is really just a sadist.....</div>
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I've been dribbling ink on my jelly fish canvas</div>
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I think my camera has cataracts,</div>
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as the canvas is the most beautiful turquoise,</div>
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which is really quite subdued on the canvas, weird that.</div>
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Now to my fun.</div>
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You may remember this or maybe I didn't show</div>
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a pic of this monstrosity</div>
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Hmmm, seems I disliked it so much that I didn't take a photo</div>
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and poocacky so I put it away.</div>
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Well I got it out and did a mad scientist bit on it and</div>
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now I'm starting to like it.</div>
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Don't you find you can just go nuts on a canvas you don't like. </div>
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and here is more gloop, oooh I'm havin so much fun</div>
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with this stuff and there is still a load more to do.</div>
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I've got the stuff all up the wall (cleaned for the pic) </div>
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and all over my white top. Yes, I know, why would you wear </div>
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white when you are gooping, it's a blonde thing and</div>
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anyway now I have more of a leopard print top</div>
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where my big belly kept touching it.</div>
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I could start a new fashion trend, gooped up tops!!</div>
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I'm going to get out some more goop and slop it around</div>
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Happy painting all,</div>
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linking up to</div>
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If you want to see the fabulous work that my</div>
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<a href="http://www.degillett.com.au/" target="_blank">here, </a></div>
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she's fabulous both as an artist and a teacher.</div>
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I've been working on my bird this week</div>
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and here is that desk to date.</div>
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Nothing exciting really, just my paints and my paint pot.</div>
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To keep the acrylics damp I put in paper towel and wet it,</div>
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The paint stays fresh for weeks but it does pong a bit</div>
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This is my actual desk. Full of stuff, as usual.</div>
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In the middle right is a gorgeous piece of mail art</div>
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ipad you can see my beautiful journal cover made by</div>
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TEACHER MAKES STUDENT POO ON CANVAS!!!</div>
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Okay, so maybe that's a little over the top but it did happen.</div>
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I took my boat canvas to class today and</div>
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I was made (yes, De had me in an arm lock)</div>
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to put poocack all over my gorgeous bright colours.</div>
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But just when I thought all was lost,</div>
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she let me play with the bright yellow ink</div>
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and it looks fabulous.</div>
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Yes, I know, it looks terrible here and half of it is missing.</div>
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The ink was still sloppy and it had to stay flat </div>
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The poocack is all down the side bits but it makes</div>
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If you bend your head to the right, stick out your tongue</div>
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I dare you to try it... </div>
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That's my desks for this week,</div>
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for more desks around the world</div>
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go to </div>
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I've been working on my boat painting</div>
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this week and boy is it </div>
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doing my head in.</div>
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One minute I hate it then an idea hits</div>
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and I like it again, then back to hating it</div>
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and so on. </div>
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Right now it's driving me nuts.</div>
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I didn't like the top of the painting and came up </div>
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with the idea to turn it into a revetment wall,</div>
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as if the boat is adrift in a canal.</div>
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It's going to be adrift cos I'm too lazy to</div>
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put a rope in.</div>
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My desk is small this week,</div>
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Just the painting on a movey roundy desk and my ikea</div>
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movey roundy thing. </div>
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Why should I move when the painting can.</div>
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I have three bags of goop in varying shades of grey</div>
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(that is 3 shades, not to be confused with 50 shades).</div>
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I wanted to do the wall in bright orange and yellow</div>
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but my teacher (and I hate it when she's right) </div>
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insisted on the greys. </div>
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Now it's a matter of playing like I'm icing a cake,</div>
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for what seems like an eternity, </div>
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until I reach the other side and a bit wider </div>
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than it is at present.</div>
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I can feel some serious back and eye aches coming on.</div>
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I also lowered the boat in the water</div>
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(argh, it's sinking... I wish) </div>
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and added more goop to the water but</div>
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there's still more goop to add.</div>
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This darn painting will be six feet thick by the time </div>
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I'm finished with it. </div>
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Lastly I roughed in my parrots head and feet.</div>
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I like to stop once I get to here and</div>
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Short and sweet this week,</div>
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cos I've got a date with some goop.</div>
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Now you've seen mine</div>
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and see what's on the other desks</div>
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around the world this Wednesday.</div>
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I'm back at my desk and all alone, at last!!</div>
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Here is my desk,</div>
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all busy with arty farty things.</div>
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To get myself back into the swing of things</div>
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I've been doing some sketches in my new sketchbooks.</div>
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One sketchbook has a very special cover, thanks to</div>
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the wonderful Lunch Lady Jan.</div>
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I love it.</div>
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I decided to do a sketch of my favourite pens.</div>
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It's been a long hot summer but at last there is a breeze</div>
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cooling us down a bit here.</div>
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I think the heat got to me a bit this year as I did</div>
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more than a few crazy things.</div>
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One thing was very special.</div>
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My girls had been complaining that their </div>
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loo roll holder kept falling off the wall</div>
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(it was one of those suction thingys)</div>
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so I decided to get them a new one.</div>
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Well of course, it's my motherly duty to give them </div>
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nice things and so I set about finding a</div>
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very special loo roll holder and....</div>
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voila, the Polaroid Poop machine!!</div>
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Yes, I found a loo roll holder in the shape of</div>
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a Polaroid camera, complete with lens and buttons.</div>
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Big Miss refused to use the loo as she was sure</div>
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her bum would end up on the internet.</div>
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I just can't understand the kids of today,</div>
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no sense of humour. </div>
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I have a giggle every time I pass their loo.</div>
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There is also the ipad versus blonde trouble</div>
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Today was also my first day back to art class</div>
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and I did a little bit more to my birdie painting.</div>
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I drew in the birds head and put a little light</div>
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on the branches. Still a long way to go but it's </div>
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looking good so far.</div>
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I'm keeping it short and sweet,</div>
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don't want to overdo it on my first day back.</div>
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So why not hop on over to</div>
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around the world.</div>
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My desk is just a mess of nothingness</div>
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as I am having an art break,</div>
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well painting break anyway</div>
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as I will be doing little doodles in the many</div>
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notebooks I have stashed around the house.</div>
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Summer holidays means cricket on the TV (yawn)</div>
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and that is where hubby parks himself, </div>
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so I tend to draw instead.</div>
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Here is may parting doodle for the year.</div>
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I drew our little Christmas guys. They are so cute</div>
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and when you press one's button the others join in </div>
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and sing carols together. </div>
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Today is the day (sigh)</div>
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I say goodbye to my new kitchen.</div>
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Little miss is getting my kitchen</div>
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put into her mouth.</div>
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I had to use my kitchen fund money</div>
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to pay for her braces and</div>
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I'm still not sure which is</div>
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the best investment.</div>
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Then again I could make the best of it</div>
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and open her teeth</div>
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(they would have been my kitchen cupboard doors)</div>
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to put in my pots and pans.</div>
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Well I couldn't put my glass ware in there,</div>
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she would break that chewing. </div>
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Hey, she has a big mouth, it's always open and loud. </div>
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She may put up a bit of a stink</div>
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but I need more storage and since she</div>
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took my kitchen I think it's a fair compromise. </div>
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She also said she wouldn't open her mouth to talk</div>
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for the three years the braces are on</div>
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(seems she is embarrassed by the braces)</div>
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so I'm in heaven. A peaceful time and</div>
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my pots and pans won't fall out if her mouths closed.</div>
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It's win, win all around.</div>
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See, sometimes losing something somewhere</div>
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is a gain somewhere else.</div>
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Mr headless bird has come home after inking </div>
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and I'll finish him in the new year. </div>
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Looking good already.</div>
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Our gorgeous little Chico is almost fully healed</div>
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This is my last post for the year,</div>
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so I'd like to wish all my bloggy friends</div>
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a very Merry Christmas</div>
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and I'll see you all in the new year.</div>
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I'm off to get my kitchen fitted</div>
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into Little Miss's mouth. </div>
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Now you've seen mine how about a look</div>
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at all the other desks around the world</div>
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at <a href="http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Julia's Stamping Ground</a>.</div>
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It's a tad hot here at the moment,</div>
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well not so much hot but really humid.</div>
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You know the kind where your hair is all frizzy</div>
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and you drip with sweat, even though it's only 29 deg.</div>
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This is the weather we usually get at the end</div>
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of summer, not in spring and to make it worse</div>
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there are no storms insight, so no relief.</div>
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Having said that, we were inundated with ants</div>
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this morning. Those pesky little things were all over the floor.</div>
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I sprayed the entire place with surface spray</div>
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just a few weeks ago but the ants have ignored that</div>
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fact. Think I'll leave the can on the floor,</div>
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just so they can read it and see that it kills ants.</div>
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A fact that seems to have slipped their minds as they </div>
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climb into poor Charlie parrots cage and try to </div>
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take him away. </div>
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Around here, ants in the house means rain is on the way,</div>
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I just hope it gets here soon, the grass is dead and the </div>
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flowers don't look too happy.</div>
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To my desk this week.</div>
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I've been playing with my water colours.</div>
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I have used a cook book to find interesting things to paint.</div>
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In fact, that is the only use I have for cookbooks.</div>
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I can't get my head around cooking, you spend hours</div>
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creating something and then it's eaten in five minutes,</div>
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(or put in the bin, which is where most</div>
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of my attempts end up) such a waste of time. </div>
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If I can't make it in half an hour</div>
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it don't get made. However, painting from a cookbook</div>
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is wonderful fun and it lasts longer too.</div>
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The picture to the front right is part of my house from the</div>
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back garden. We had to paint a building for Sketchbook Skool</div>
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and it was too hot to go out so I did our house.</div>
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The notebook on the top left contains the </div>
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rantings of a madwoman, yes me.</div>
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I was watching TV last night and hubby was </div>
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channel surfing as usual, you never get to see</div>
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and entire program in this house, and he came</div>
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across an ocean program that had these</div>
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gorgeous jellyfish. I grabbed my book, which always sits on</div>
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the coffee table and started to sketch from the tv.</div>
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Little cogs were actually moving in my pea brain.</div>
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I can see a fabulous painting coming from these </div>
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delicate little guys. I'm going to play around with</div>
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composition and then see if I can create those</div>
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delicate little frills with goop, then make the bodies</div>
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translucent, ink it and there's another painting.</div>
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My only problem is, delicate is really not me,</div>
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rush in and go nuts, that's more me. </div>
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Fingers crossed I can be more ladylike</div>
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(cough, cough).</div>
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A note to finish on,</div>
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My wall of inspiration has grown</div>
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My wonderful friend Tracey Fletcher King is selling</div>
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some of her paintings and cards and I got in quick.</div>
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Aren't they gorgeous.</div>
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If you want to see what she is selling you can find it here</div>
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on her <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.855511284493935.1073741833.834107813300949&type=1" target="_blank">Facebook page Tracey Fletcher King Art and Illustrations</a>,</div>
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there may even be a few left.</div>
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That's me for WOYWW this week,</div>
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why not go on over to</div>
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<a href="http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Julia's Stamping Ground </a></div>
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and see what's on the other desks </div>
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around the world today.</div>
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P.S. The little guinea pig is doing really well,</div>
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he had his stitches out yesterday and</div>
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is healing nicely.</div>
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No paint or canvasses</div>
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and a much needed coffee.</div>
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I've been doodling, lots.</div>
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There are heaps of fine liner pens, got them cheap</div>
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as a set with the pencil case, and then I bought the </div>
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pacer pencils and 6 colour pens really cheap at</div>
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my grocery store today. </div>
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The blue sketch and the one in the front, </div>
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it's a picture of the hanger thingys that I put</div>
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are homework from sketchbook skool.</div>
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The two pages to the left have pics of </div>
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our two guinea pigs.</div>
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The little face of Chico is below the slippers,</div>
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he had to have surgery last wednesday</div>
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and below that is Ziggy, who was really</div>
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missing his buddy while he was at the vets.</div>
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It's been a scary week but he is well and truly</div>
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on the mend now. I found doing sketches</div>
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of the boys made me feel better as</div>
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it's been a very stressful week.</div>
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Here he is after surgery,</div>
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as they shaved him so much.</div>
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as I was keeping an eye on </div>
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little Chico.</div>
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Here you can get an idea</div>
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of just how much work has gone</div>
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into this canvas.</div>
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There are many layers of gloop and squiggles</div>
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I think it will look pretty good.</div>
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That's all for this week,</div>
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I've shown you mine, so why not</div>
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hop on over to </div>
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This weeks sketchbook skool</div>
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Landscapes (eww) and proper water colour</div>
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(not the colouring in that I call water colour).</div>
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I decided to tackle the landscape bit first.</div>
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I was sitting comfortably on the </div>
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and decided to draw the trees in my garden</div>
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and the trees over the back fence.</div>
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Looking, looking, there's a lot to take in</div>
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and I don't know where to start.</div>
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I pick up my pen and draw a tree trunk</div>
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I splodge on a bit of paint using my water brush,</div>
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this is a quick way to do leaves. </div>
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Then it started. </div>
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The teacher had said to spray the paints </div>
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so they would be ready. </div>
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I had this tray on my lap and stuck the brush into the paint,</div>
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lifted it to the little dish and then realised the pan was stuck</div>
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to the brush, it had gone sticky as it was drying.</div>
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I panicked and flicked the brush,</div>
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resulting in one pan flying away and over </div>
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into the dirt on the lawn.</div>
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I jumped up and of course the whole tray of paints</div>
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then fell onto the patio and was coated in dust.</div>
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I grabbed the wayward pan and tried to brush it off</div>
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but it was stuck hard. </div>
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cos when you lift it out paint runs down</div>
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your arm and onto your trouser leg.</div>
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I got the spray bottle and gave it a good hard spray.</div>
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Not a good idea as it splashed up everywhere,</div>
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seems once it's been wet it gets really sploshy. </div>
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Mess cleaned up, I start again.</div>
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This time I get it sort of alright</div>
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and I end up with,</div>
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well, a mess really.</div>
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The rest of my homework was to </div>
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draw birds in the garden.</div>
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Now we're talking, I love birds and we have tons of them.</div>
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Have you ever tried to get a bird to sit still</div>
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while you draw it?</div>
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Apart from Charlie, my very vain parrot,</div>
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no other birds will sit still for anything.</div>
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I gave up after fifty tries and got out the camera.</div>
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It was easy once I was inside my art room.</div>
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I pencilled up the birds, did them in pen</div>
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and then 'water' coloured them in.</div>
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but after the paint pan incident</div>
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'Plein air' my foot, it should be called</div>
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'plein painful'!</div>
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I'm not sure how you would</div>
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I kinda did quite a bit but</div>
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at the same time got nowhere fast.</div>
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My desk is over at the back today.</div>
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The pink blobs are bags of texture paste that</div>
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I'm piping and knifing onto a bird canvas.</div>
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The dirty water, that I thought I'd cleaned up,</div>
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is from Sketchbook Skool and check out that </div>
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fabulous sprayer. That's for my next inking.</div>
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No more pumping a little handle,</div>
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this bad boy just sprays on command. </div>
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My Sketchbook Skool homework was to get </div>
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three things and draw them using a continuous</div>
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line and then water colour it.</div>
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The drawing went sort of okay but I did</div>
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have a blonde moment after the drawing.</div>
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That is a whole other story and if you want to see</div>
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it's <a href="http://vonnykart.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/yet-another-blonde-moment.html" target="_blank">here in my last post</a>.</div>
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My water colouring skills are not great</div>
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but at least I tried.</div>
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I did get another canvas drawn up and</div>
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undercoated and I'm really happy with that.</div>
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See, who needs water colour when you can play</div>
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with big blobby things. </div>
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This is what I'm doing with the pink and green gloop</div>
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I've just started putting in the very back leaves</div>
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and I'll build up over these with the closer leaves.</div>
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I did a little bit of adjusting</div>
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Sorry about the angle, I just can't get </div>
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Plus I'm too short to get over the top of it.</div>
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It's pretty much finished now.</div>
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I just have to paint in the birds eyes</div>
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and then I can finally photograph it upright.</div>
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So you see, I sorta did a lot</div>
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but really didn't get far with anything.</div>
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Well that's my rather boring desk </div>
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for this week.</div>
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So why not hop on over to </div>
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<a href="http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Julia's Stamping Ground</a></div>
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and see what is on the other desks</div>
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around the world.</div>
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Sorry it wasn't very funny today,</div>
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I'm still in shock at the cost</div>
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of Little Miss's braces.</div>
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I have a savings account called</div>
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"my new kitchen fund"</div>
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and in two weeks time Little Miss</div>
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will be walking around with my </div>
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new kitchen in her mouth (sigh).</div>
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My close friends know that I'm a blonde</div>
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in every sense of the word.</div>
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I could have black hair and I'd still be 'blonde'.</div>
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I'm doing the Seeing lessons</div>
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at Sketchbook Skool and this week I had to </div>
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put three items together and draw the basic shapes</div>
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using one continuous line, </div>
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with a water soluble pen. Then </div>
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colour it with water colours.</div>
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Simple you'd think.</div>
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Do you think I could find a water soluble</div>
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pen in this entire house.</div>
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All of little miss's felt pens have dried up </div>
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and everything I own is permanent ink.</div>
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My first idea was to use my Inktense</div>
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water colour pencils.</div>
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This looked okay until I added water</div>
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and the colour went every where.</div>
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So I decided to just colour it in</div>
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but I couldn't use that for my homework.</div>
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Next I decided to use a pitt pen to at least </div>
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start some practise sketches.</div>
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Then I drew up the sketch</div>
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of what will be the finished</div>
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continuous line drawing,</div>
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when I get a water soluble pen.</div>
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Not too shabby.</div>
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Remember this has to be done </div>
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with one continuous line,</div>
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no lifting of pens.</div>
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That is really hard when you have </div>
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the attention span of a gnat.</div>
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I'm happy with the composition</div>
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now all I have to do is get a soluble pen</div>
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and use the same set up of things</div>
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to draw it up again.</div>
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Then came my blonde moment.</div>
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I was cutting up the veggies for dinner</div>
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and yes you guessed it,</div>
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stupid here cut up that gorgeously</div>
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angled piece of pumpkin.</div>
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It is three quarters of the way through</div>
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my families digestive tract and</div>
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I really don't want to draw it now.</div>
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Just lucky I have the sketches</div>
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to use for the finished product.</div>
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I'll just wing the colours and shading</div>
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for the water colour part.</div>
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The moral of this story</div>
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is that</div>
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veggies are bad for art</div>
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and chocolate rules!</div>
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Hey, you eat chocolate before you have</div>
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a chance to sketch it so you never ruin</div>
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a painting that way.</div>
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