#10-19-22

[photozoi]

River monster makes a pink friend.

[photozoi]

Look what came ashore in time for the Hallowe’entown celebration in Oregon!

Tis the season.

[fokeshi]

2.

it is 19 october

i want to experiment with mediums i have not tried before.  i say that but in truth i have tried so many mediums briefly over the years that it isn’t entirely accurate so to rephrase

i want to experiment with mediums such as crayons, things i have not used since i was approximately twelve, and tempera paint

once when i was thirteen or fourteen a friend and i made a giant paper mural with tempera and glitter, of a three headed dragon.  all i remember about tempera specifically is it cracked but stayed in place, had a distinctive smell that to this day i associate with children and chalk, and had good color payoff.  this was a long time ago and i’ve been assured there’s high quality tempera available now

(no i am not including such esoterica as egg tempera in this, which i made once when i was about nineteen in a college art class and then i understood the reason california made egging a house an act of vandalism on par with spraypaint

that stuff’ll stand the test of time)

one thing i have never used for art is fine line pens and i want to change that

colored pencils are new to me

the only mediums i reject are soft pastels because they make the kind of mess i hate, and oil pastels because they don’t make the kind of mess i want, and oil paints which are expensive and don’t interest me

i already get all the benefits of oil with all the fun of acrylics by, you know, painting with acrylics

i ruminate on this because i want to know why i am the way i am

so materialist all these wants that i think are needs and all these needs that i think are wants