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Published: 2012-05-16 04:44:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 619; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 0
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Description Can't a guy get a good day's sleep around here anymore?! RUUUUUUUUUDE.

My first submission since... December I think? This was the first time in my watercolor class where we got to paint whatever we wanted. HALLELUJAH, I said, I couldn't take anymore leaves or mountain ranges or still lifes.

Nosferatu has always been one of the most terrifying things I've ever seen. I remember my first exposure. Do you remember that episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark? where some kid was alone in a movie theater that was playing Nosferatu, then Count Orlok breaks the 4th wall and starts walking toward the screen and then COMES OUT OF IT TO ATTACK THE KID? GOD I will never forget how much that scared me. Orlok had some of the best monster makeup of all time.

I tend to murder the paper. I'm so used to drawing, going back and forth on one line over and over again. Bad. Bad bad bad. I've got a long way to go, because I noticed almost at the end of the semester that none of my stuff had and real qualities of watercolor, at least not the ones I want to see: awesome blends, the border that the water makes when it has time to soak completely into the paper (I've been so impatient and have been soaking up what I thought was "excess"), etc. I've still got to take another watercolor class, though, so hopefully I'll get better.
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MtheMagnificent [2024-04-29 22:56:49 +0000 UTC]

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MercuryIsLove [2012-05-16 05:10:34 +0000 UTC]

OOOOOOO. I have missed your arts. This is magical in every way. I love me some Nosferatu.

As a side note, I don't even remember the last time I used watercolors. In fact, I don't remember the last time I painted (or drew, for that matter). It's been at least three years. Whoa. I should probably look into that.

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kdotmdot In reply to MercuryIsLove [2012-05-17 04:51:11 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! Do you remember the Nosferatu episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark?

And yes, you should. Though I understand what it's like to lose interest.

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MercuryIsLove In reply to kdotmdot [2012-05-20 04:10:53 +0000 UTC]

I don't think I saw that one, but I remember pretending that show didn't scare me when I was a kid, then being mortified and not sleeping that night. There was one with a doll or a dummy, and that was horrifying. I blame it to this day for my doll phobia.

The last few weeks have been so artistically unproductive for me. We've been doing some kitchen renovations and that's NOT fun. Plus, I haven't been feeling so great lately, so I've just been watching TV shows and movies and sleeping. But I've been listening to a lot of new music (read: court music from Japan--I don't even know how I found it), and it's been oddly inspiring. And one of the BIG things on my summer to-do list is get back into painting and drawing.

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