{"id":121,"date":"2011-04-25T17:47:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T21:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/journal\/?p=121"},"modified":"2011-04-25T17:47:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T21:47:46","slug":"art-blast-4252011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Art Blast 4\/25\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ll notice this week’s art blast is a little light. Although I (finally!) finished the origami whale stop motion video<\/a>, I didn’t have time to take pictures for a new one. Worse, I didn’t get a sculpture done. Yeah, I’m a slacker.<\/p>\n

I did get the first draft of the Ash Wednesday story finished, though, and I’m thrilled about that. So, yeah, I kind of gave myself a break on everything else because of it. I know. I shouldn’t. Bad habits are easy to form. Good ones take effort.<\/p>\n

I did get a miniature painted, but we forgot about dipping the minis until I was crawling into bed last night. By that point, Chad and I were both pretty tired, so we decided to take care of it at lunch today. Unfortunately, the Quickshade takes 24 hours to dry, so I won’t be able to post a picture of my steampunk werewolf until tomorrow. (Ooo, got your attention with that, didn’t I? \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\n

I decided to try a new tactic at getting everything done this week: I made a schedule. Normally I just make a to-do list and take care of things as the day allows. That wasn’t working, though, so I sat down last night and planned out my day, based on how long I thought it would take to do everything.<\/p>\n

Boy, did I underestimate!<\/p>\n

I got up earlier than I’d planned, but I was still 15 minutes behind by the time I started the first thing on my schedule (breakfast — yes, I even scheduled mealtimes!). I fell further and further behind as the day progressed, and by 3 o’clock I was running a full hour behind. I’d done everything on my schedule, though: exercise, write, sketch, practice penmanship, fold an origami… Luckily, the ARFP website updates I had to do today took less time than I’d feared (I’ve learned to allot extra time when fiddling with code), so I wrapped that up ten minutes ahead of schedule!<\/p>\n

I’m going to try making a schedule again tomorrow, but I’ll give myself more time for everything. Today was partly about figuring out how long things take. Like breakfast. A half hour doesn’t cut it. Not when I have to feed the cats, too.<\/p>\n

And, now, on to the art!<\/p>\n

For once, it was easy to pick a sketch to post. Out of the four I did last week, this is the only one I like enough to show in public:<\/p>\n

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Until now, I didn't notice that the "baby" mushrooms look like a combination of the two larger ones. Like parents with their kids.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I’m almost as uncertain about what this week’s origami is as I was last time:<\/p>\n

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Chicken? Ostrich? Really big pigeon?<\/p><\/div>\n

I know it’s a bird, but I’m not sure what kind. I was thinking maybe a chicken until I saw an origami diagram in the app I use that’s undoubtedly a chicken. So now I’m thinking this one might be an ostrich.<\/p>\n

I took this week’s photograph when Chad and I were walking around outside the NC Aquarium on Roanoke Island during our trip there in February:<\/p>\n

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They remind me of Horton Hears a Who.<\/p><\/div>\n

I was experimenting with macros. I’ve never had a camera that could do them before, and I have to say I really like them. This one was tough to capture because the wind kept blowing, and those willowy little stalks kept swaying back and forth. Like any smart photographer, I took lots of shots. I got three that turned out really good, but this one is my favorite.<\/p>\n

This week’s 3D image is titled “My World in Glass”:<\/p>\n

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My World in Glass<\/p><\/div>\n

It was my entry in the Daz3D “My World” contest. Didn’t win, but I still think it turned out fantastic. I usually strive for photorealism in my 3D work. This one comes closer than almost anything else I’ve done.<\/p>\n

And that wraps it up for this week’s art blast! Hope you enjoyed it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’ll notice this week’s art blast is a little light. Although I (finally!) finished the origami whale stop motion video, I didn’t have time to take pictures for a new one. Worse, I didn’t get a sculpture done. Yeah, I’m a slacker. I did get the first draft of the… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[137,150,151,152,161,7],"tags":[21,166,158,15,81,157,156,155,167],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4udeu-1X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}