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Got it.
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May. 6th, 2008 @ 11:17 am
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I've got "The Host" and a ticket to Stephenie Meyer's Houston booksigning event on Friday.
mwahhahahhah. :)
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Avatar: The Boiling Rock part 2
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Apr. 27th, 2008 @ 12:02 am
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Avatar: The Boiling Rock part 2 -- fangirl SPASM!!!!
OmGOMGOMG.
(dvd is out, therefore torrents are out. Search for it.)
AND SPOILERspoilerspoiler
( really, SPOILERS )
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Twi-hard Twilighter (+art)
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Apr. 16th, 2008 @ 12:22 am
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Edward is a vampire who "falls in love with a mortal and destroys both of their lives, in a romantic and loving way."
--Robert Pattinson, in a recently-released AP interview and video: here
Haahaha! Total glee. Thank you for that, Robert.
I'm currently caught in the grips of Twilight obsession, and for my daily fix I have these sites in a quick-loading Firefox bookmark folder:
http://www.twilightlexiconblog.com/
http://www.bellaandedward.com/
http://community.livejournal.com/lion_lamb/
http://twilightmomsforums.unrealblogs.com/
http://hisgoldeneyes.com/
I'm pretty sure that not much slips by me in the world of Twi-movie news. *is dork*
And my opinion? I had some concerns earlier, but everything I've seen so far just gets me more and more excited. I think (and hope and pray) that this movie is going to be wonderful.
And I ADORE Robert Pattinson as Edward. I've always had a hard time picturing Edward (one reason I tried to draw him), but when they announced Rob's casting, it was a sudden snap of "YES THAT IS IT!!"
Twilight fanart!!
A Twilight Meme, done slowly and with love. Full of SPOILERS.
Twilight Meme by ~purplerebecca on deviantART
Edward Cullen and Light Yagami face off. Because it needed to be done. XD
Light Edward by ~purplerebecca on deviantART
PE exchange pics:
PE Rd. 62 - Culture Shock's Alec & Brooke for Reed Hawker
PE Blind Lighting Round: Talina for Bleupencil
PE: Talina for Bleupencil by ~purplerebecca on deviantART
My coppermine gallery isn't letting me upload right now, so half of these are only available on Deviantart atm. I can't figure out how to fix the gallery and it is bugging me greatly. :(
Deviantart has catagory folders now, so all my Twilight fanart can be found there easily: http://purplerebecca.deviantart.com/gallery/#Twilight
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Artness
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Feb. 20th, 2008 @ 01:48 pm
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Posted on DA and my website but not here in the last few months:
Dehj for FeralGrinn and the PE Rd. 60, Dec. 2007. Merry Christmas. ;)
Dev Stock Reffed Sketches 5
DevStock Reffed Sketches 6
Eris/Winter for Amy/phoenixelement, for the PE Bad Girls lighting round.
Dogwood planning sketches
OCs abound
Magazine Sketches 07
Sketches-Does
Noein: Karasu Sketches
Random Sketch Compilation 07
kinda ugly, but, meh.
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Dogwood Blossoms: Character Outline
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Jan. 28th, 2008 @ 11:32 pm
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I've had a few people ask for a character breakdown for Dogwood Blossoms. I will continue to update this outline as characters are revealed in the comic. I'll also put here the little background stories about Sesshoumaru's children that don't fit in the comic narrative.
This outline is a supplement to the comic and therefore contains SPOILERS. It's best if you read the comic and then read this for a few more fun details. :)
( Dogwood Blossoms: Character Outline )
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Dogwood Blossoms, Chapter 2, p.17-23
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Jan. 28th, 2008 @ 02:43 pm
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Pink!
Dogwood Blossoms, Chapter 2, p.17-23
( Dogwood Blossoms, Chapter 2, p.17-23 )
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ZUKO!!
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Nov. 30th, 2007 @ 11:04 pm
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Avatar: Day of Black Sun ----
ZUKO!!!! YES!!!!!@!!!@!!!!
*runs around, whooping*
WHOOOHOOOOO!Feeling::  jubilant |
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Orginal Art/ Buy Handmade!
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Nov. 28th, 2007 @ 10:58 pm
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My local town has an Art League, which is mostly little old ladies doing still-lifes and landscapes, and they have a Christmas Gallery every year to sell their work. I managed to find it today, and there were the expected landscapes, etc, and also unexpectedly there was some quite good stuff, which is always cool to find. Even more unexpectedly, in a "bargain bin" of loose, unmounted watercolors, there was this gorgeous watercolor of a diamond-paned window with flowers and shrubbery. Really, quite lovely, and marked only for $2.63.
So I totally bought it. Paid them $6, which was all the cash I had on hand, though it was definitely worth more.
Hee! I got pretty original art!
I don't have much of that, and I definitely should get more. It's very green, though, and doesn't match anything in the house, so likely I'll frame it and give it as a gift some time.
I'm definitely thinking of working on more physical media, sellable art. Broaden my horizons. Things like Bluefooted is doing: fairytale-based, rich and textured and gorgeous.
Things I need to work on: backgrounds, and placing figures in a setting. HARD. SO HARD. Portraits and pin-ups are so much easier. But a fully-compositioned artwork with setting and character is so much more powerful. Yeah.
The little old ladies who were working the Art League gallery today were of the fun, scatter-brained-friendly-artistic type, instead of being the perfectly-coiffed "I and my daughters were all Homecoming Queens" type, which means perhaps I would really enjoy joining them in their painting/arting sessions. XD I totally should try it out.
Speaking of art as gifts, I just discovered Etsy.com: "Buy and Sell All Things Handmade" and it is awesome. I love their "Buy Handmade!!" campaign as well. I'm going to be making/painting several gifts this year.
Merimask has an etsy gallery (those dragon keychains, oooooooh).
I've just finished an awesome scifi series were the author makes a point that in a world where everything is mass-produced cheaply and homogeneously, that the real way to show wealth is to surround ones-self with high-quality handmade items: hand-carved furniture, hand-calligraphed invitations to high-class parties. :} I think that that is AWEsome and totally true. When you can get anything and everything exactly the same all over the country at Walmart, how to you truly one-up the Joneses? Buy and commission handmade items. They can't be copied, reproduced, they're totally original. And expensive, because it is human labor and skill.
(sci-fi series is the VolVorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold, and deserves its own post. In a word: LOVE.)
So, yeah, GO HANDMADE!
Oh, Dickens on the Strand, this weekend! And I can't find my bustle-y type skirt! Ack!
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Dogwood Blossoms, Chapter 2, p.13-16
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Nov. 19th, 2007 @ 10:58 pm
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A Dogwood update in less than a month! Whoo!
Dogwood Blossoms, Chapter 2, p.13-16
( Dogwood Blossoms, Chapter 2, p.13-16 )
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Life, it happens, some
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Nov. 8th, 2007 @ 07:33 pm
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I went to the Texas Renaissance Festival on Saturday! Yayness.
Though I dislike paying to shop on principle, there is just so much wonderful shopping for me to skip going. And people in costume, which I love. I spent too much, but was pleased with what I got, so that's good.
I scoured the faire for the best face-painter I could find, and I think I found a right fabulous one. I paid for my friend to get her face painted, and then myself, and asked questions of our artist. She was a lovely lady who's been face painting since the 70's, and she was willing to talk. XD
Tips I learned:
She uses tube acrylic paints from Hobby Lobby: they stay on well and peel off with water easily. She uses (hypoallergenic) loose glitter: she dips her finger in water and then into the glitter, and lightly and carefully dabs over the face-paint.
And, I need to practice.
I haven't worked a con in over a year, and I miss it! (I have to work Fridays in the newspaper biz, so I just haven't bothered.)
But I was able to paint kid-faces at our church's Halloween Trunk-or-Treat Festival, and I remembered how much I love it, and how hard it is! The pressure to work fast and get it right the first time, with expectant faces waiting, is, because it is short-lived, exhilarating, rather then stressful.
Oh, I was movie-inspired Bellatrix LeStrange for Halloween! White streaks sprayed into ratted curly hair, lots of black lace, and a cheap wand. XD
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Dogwood Blossoms, Chapter 2, p.8-12
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Oct. 25th, 2007 @ 01:24 am
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Dogwood Blossoms, Chapter 2, p.8-12
( Dogwood Blossoms, Ch2, p.8-12 )
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Art Post
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Oct. 25th, 2007 @ 01:16 am
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Edward Cullen Hates Me.
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Aug. 6th, 2007 @ 11:22 pm
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Stephenie Meyer's "Eclipse", book 3 of the Twilight series, comes out today. XD
In celebration, I set my bum down and actually finished my painterly portrait of Edward I've had on my harddrive for months now.
Edward Cullen Hates Me.
From Chapter 1, 'First Sight', of the first novel, "Twilight".
1280x1024 wallpaper size available to download off deviantart.
photoshop, references from all over the internet, too many hours.
Watercolors I posted earlier but never blogged about:
 
I've been on a Potter high and been reading Snape fanfic again. Love. Why is it that finding a good romantic fanfiction seems to be so much easier then finding a professionally published romance novel that doesn't irritate the heck out of me?
Am I more tolerate of fanfic because I expect lots of junk before the gold? Or are romance novels really just lots of lust, bad choices, and bad writing? Where am I supposed to get my romantic fix if everything that's supposed to accomplish it is just drivel? Back to the fic I go!
Last night I got a fabulous idea for my next original comic/graphic novel project:
I'm going to take two great concepts that deserve more exploring, one pulled from fanfiction, and another from an obnoxious romance novel I read recently, and put them together into a scifi romance with no supernatural elements. Which means I'll have to actually do research into the physics behind their spacetravel, darnit. But it'll be mostly romance, and it'll be great. XD Look for it in another 10 years or so. :P
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HP:DH FanArt Reccs
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Aug. 4th, 2007 @ 06:32 pm
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Because I feel like it...
The coolest post-DEATHLY HALLOWS HP Fanart posted so far on Deviantart. That I've found.
High preponderance of SNAPE of course.
SPOILERs, duh.
( Lots of HPart reccs, checkit )
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Harry Potter 7
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Jul. 21st, 2007 @ 02:31 pm
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It was WONDERFUL.
SOOOOOOOO WONDERFUL. And fabulous. And horrible. And fabulously awesome, and I wonder how long it will take me to recover enough that I stop screaming in joy and bursting into tears at odd moments. So good. So joyful and full of amazing moments. I was crying and laughing and whooping, generally at the same time.
So many moments. So many things I had hoped to see but never thought I would. So many I never would have expected. So many things I was curious about but never expected to be addressed. But were. Quite a few things I definitely did NOT want to happen.
I keep bawling. But it was so wonderful.
Thank you, so much, so very much, Joanne K. Rowling, for such a wonderful gift as is the gift of these books, this world, and these characters. And thank you for the philosophies of love, family, and what's really important that runs underneath them, and through them. Thank you.
And now, SPOILERS.
( initial impressions, Harry Potter 7 SPOILERS )
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See you on the other side.
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Jul. 21st, 2007 @ 12:41 am
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I am cloistered and sequestered.
I have "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" in my hands.
Yesterday I finished rereading books 5 and 6, and napped.
I will reemerge into the world after I have read the tale that Rowling has wrought.
Then I will put forward my thoughts and scour for the thoughts of others.
And I hope to be as happy with the entirety of Harry's saga as I am with its parts.
I'm very excited.
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Twilight: Bella and Edward Watercolor
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Jun. 11th, 2007 @ 07:13 pm
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Been running around all over the last week or so, and before that, dealing with some really obnoxious artist block. This piece hopefully broke it, and if I get some time, maybe I can get some other art out too.
First posted Twilight Fanart:
Bella and Edward
ink, watercolor, and bit of gauche
From Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series, likely the most romantic story written in the last decade. LOVE these two. *_____*
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Rissa's Continental Tour
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May. 28th, 2007 @ 02:51 pm
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My sister Rissa has been planning a 3 week trip to Europe for a year now. I couldn't go without quitting my job (I want at least a year at this one to rack up some experience), so my mom agreed to go with her.
My sister ordered her passport a month or two ago, but it still hadn't arrived before she had to leave school and came back to Texas. Her flight was scheduled for this last Tuesday. She called and called, and was assured her passport would arrive through the mail before Tuesday. Over the weekend, she was confident it would get here in time. Monday it didn't arrive. She called and they said there was no way it was getting there on Tuesday. My sister bawled in our room and my mom canceled flights and hotel reservations, and they discussed how in the world they were going to get this trip to happen. We watched Heroes and I generally tried to cheer her up from the terrible funk this disappointment had put her in.
Tueday morning, at 8am, a FedEx truck pulled up with Rissa's passport. XD Mom was able to re-setup their flight for that evening, and they packed like mad and were able to get out and go! ^_^
They started in London, saw Wicked on West End, and are in Paris now, seeing the Louvre and Versailles. They'll be going down to Italy in a day or two for some extensive Romanism. Rissa is a Latin major, so she's totally in Old World heaven. They'll go back up to Brussels, Belgium, and stay with my brother Tim and his wife, who are doing some sort church-sponsored job center setup thing all over the Dutch-speaking areas this summer. Ah, my little world travelers.
I'll eventually get myself over to Europe too. I want castles and art museums. Except with a tour, as I'm too lazy to want to plan it all myself. XP
If you are PLANNING TO LEAVE THE USA in the next year or so, please order your passport now, as they are in a tremendous backlog. I have no problems with passports being required for all extra-country travel, oh Government, just be smart enough to hire enough passport people to handle all the citizens who always pop down to Mexico every year and are now required to get a passport! Jeez! |
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Emo Spidey!!
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May. 3rd, 2007 @ 11:56 pm
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LOLZ!! Spidey 3 is such FUN!!!
Unexpected friend connections got Sis and I in to see the 9pm employee showing at the movie theater tonight.
Total fun. Emo Parker and a DANCE NUMBER. I was laughing all over.
It looked to be all dark and scary, but they broke it up with cute goof and heartwarming stuff. Tobey just wasn't convincing emo evil at all. Even Venom-boy so enjoyed his conniving mayhem, you can't dislike him.
Highly recommend Spider Man 3! Great fun, great moments, and great action. And the lol emo factor.
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Animematsuri
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May. 2nd, 2007 @ 07:19 pm
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My sister is home! Yay! We've been having Heroes marathons. I'm finally watching it. And it's awesome. (if rather gorey, yeeig!) Hiro Love!
Went to Animematsuri last weekend. Couldn't get off work so I didn't bother with a table, and this is the first con I DIDN'T cosplay for. Shock!
The con had problems: too long lines, half the panels not happening, blah blah blah, but 4 of my prints in the art show sold. XD Friday wasn't even worth going to. So many people, and nothing to do but look at each other and shop. I paid $40 for this?
I think I'm going to start getting a table for Saturday only and doing it that way on these cons. Because I love face painting. :)
I'm totally going to make an Avatar:Princess Ursa/Zuko's Mom cosplay for whatever con I go to next. And for long term planning: I want to do Sesshoumaru's mother from the Inuyasha manga. But that will be an EXPENSIVE costume, so I'm going to take it slow. And maybe commission the wig, or something.
Am I going to end up being "That Guy's Mom" for every cosplay I do from now on? yeeig. Cute ingenue and slinky sex-vixen just don't work with my body, so elegant matron it will have to be. heh.
Art!:
Blonde Fairy
(I would have called it "Green Fairy", but that has connotations that would disappoint any googlers.) ;]
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