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Had a look at my printy dA page, and HORROR! I don't like it anymore. at all. I think I'll close it, and sell prints on this account. Any thoughts? Anyone?

Latest blog post - it's almost a week late (from Feb 17th)! extrantice.blogspot.com/2011/0…
Contains pictures.

On Saturday* we went to a local Chinese New Year celebration. It was quite small, just a few stalls with food, lacquerware and pottery, calligraphy. Had a very good atmosphere, though. I wanted to stay a bit longer than we did - there was to be a mahjong demonstration that I wanted to watch. My companions were getting hungry, though, so we left for some Chinese take-out...
*- Saturday the 12th - it's taken me awhile to complete this post!

I really enjoyed looking at the pots on display. There were some beautiful mother-of-pearl inlaid ones, with a dragon on one side and a peacock on the other. There was also a lacquered pot with an eggshell inlay. For some reason that really impressed me, I guess because I'd never heard of (or even considered) the use of broken eggshells in art. Soo I did a bit of looking around online, and found a nice explanatory article www.articleonlinedirectory.com… and some beautiful examples of eggshell lacquerware zozelli.com/zencart/index.php?… .

Meanwhile, I've added another quadrilateral type-1 koch snowflake extrantice.blogspot.com/2011/0… to the set I'm working on. It's more inspired by the fractal than an actual example. I'm not entirely sure the design is fractal in and of itself, but I think it might be.
[I clearly am not a mathematician.]

Also, I made a few sketches a couple weekends ago:

3.bp.blogspot.com/-zwTF3bnbfoc… I quite like how this one turned out, mostly because it's my first okay inking. Aside from that, I'm not entirely happy with the hair, or the feet. She's wearing a faceplate, because she's in spaaaace.

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Some alien/robot things. Just playing around.

Also! I've finally started a test piece in the Wings 3D program extrantice.blogspot.com/2010/0… . It's a cat. I'm familiar with cats.

And I think that's about it for now. Oh wait! I also have a cunning plan regarding an old shiel pack* and some not-yet-made handbags. The canvas is all grimy with machine oil and miscellaneous grime at the moment, so the next stage is to cut it in quarters and take it to the laundromat.
*- I can't find 'shiel pack' anywhere online. It's kind of a large garden waste bag, made of canvas. I think cattle feed might also come in shiel packs, but I'm not sure. I'm not even sure that's the proper name, but it's what's written on the label.

And and and, as a sort of for-fun side project, I've been drawing on a kitten-decorated bag someone gave me a couple Xmases ago. What am I drawing? Fine attire! 2.bp.blogspot.com/-wFfDo4mcKsk…

Art 37 blog post: extrantice.blogspot.com/2011/0… Contains pictures.

"The bag extrantice.deviantart.com/art/… , made out of an old umbrella, that I worked so hard on. I sewed 'til my fingers bled! No, I'm exaggerating. It is hand-sewn, however - I get a little carried away with sewing machines - so it took quite awhile. Then it tore, so I had to repair it. That also took quite awhile."

"I tend to think of it as my cursed bag of holding. It fits an extraordinary number of things, but once within the bag they're difficult to find. During repairs, I added a couple zip pockets, so now it's slightly less cursed."

"Meanwhile, last year I took some photos in the backyard, and I've now got around to uploading the one I like best extrantice.deviantart.com/art/… . The critters are cardboard things, packing from some sort of device, or something. I shaped them a little and drew on eyes. I like the sort of hot, over-bright feel of this picture."

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Latest blog entry. Rambling, mostly. It has a happy ending! extrantice.blogspot.com/2010/0…

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