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every time i make a graphic i remember what it feels like to hit rock bottom

#god it SUCKS #idk how graphic makers do it #its so. hard #and like #finnicky #font. placement. coloring. overlays. texture. grain. sharpening. additional graphics. concept. cohesion like #im too DUMB for that shit #i just spent an hour making 2 graphics that look like actual Shit #love that for me

So - this is my #workinprogress ... I stopped at 3:24am and I’ve just started again now (around 7:30-ish)... it’s #painstakingwork #detailed #finnicky and makes my eyes go squint #😂 ... this is a #detail of the #glazing on my #organic #foundobject #textured #slabbuilt #keanelumina #vases ... I’m using #electricblue #jade and #purple to create and accent the patterning into a #modern and #contemporary #artwork • all for my #straddie_thespiritwithin #exhibition @junitagrosvenor @old.schoolhouse.gallery @natashagibsonscott (at Spotti Clogg Art Studio)

Piped Jar #blue #green #finnicky #madeinaskutt #piping #stoneware #awallart #myart #ceramics #hourslater #hello #beauty

#awallart #beauty #green #finnicky #piping #madeinaskutt #myart #stoneware #hello #ceramics #hourslater #blue

The Excitable Etymologist: Finicky

I was going to do an exhaustive post about word transfer this week, but I have essentially no time this weekend. (To give you a sense of how busy I currently am, this weekend I am performing in two concerts, competing in my very first horse show, and attending a Model UN Symposium crisis committee as Theresa May, as well as helping to decorate my church and my house for Christmas.) So instead of a long and wordy post, this week will be another episode of the Excitable Etymologist.

But where does finicky come from? Is there such a thing as a “finick”? Can one be “finical”?

One can, in fact, be finical, or at least one could in the 1590s. The word developed from an uncertain root, possibly a combination of fine and -ical, and meant “fastidious” or “affected”. The spelling may have been influenced by the Dutch word finikin (or fijnkens) meaning “dainty” or “precise” which entered English in the 1660s.

The meaning of “finical” changed slightly over the centuries, coming mean something like “overly particular.” “Finicky”, on the other hand, entered the language (at least in print) in 1825, with a similar meaning to “finical.” Eventually, it replaced its older cousin as the word of choice for something that was small and required precise movements and measurements, as well as someone who was particular, especially about food.

I hope you enjoyed this week’s post! Next week will be the last in this “season” of the Linguistics Bunker. I will be taking three weeks off over Christmas, (unless I get bored) but expect to see me back in January.

#the excitable etymologist #the linguistics bunker #linguistics #finicky #finnicky #grace is a nerd #and a busy one at that

how 2 mix skin tones using colored india ink:

you can’t. i don’t know why you thought you could. how could you have been so wrong. how can something be yellow AND purple at the same time? you have made a mistake. embrace oblivion.

#jk i got it to work after a while but it's #it's uh #finnicky #i should learn how to use actual watercolors eventually but the last time i looked into it they were expensive and i was like lol no #i have to look at gauche too i really don't know anything about anything