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And, having come across a few pats of watercolours at the thrift shop I've turned my hands to a new medium.
Watch the YouTube videos, seems straightforward enough, should be a cinch.
How many times have I said this?
Anyways, putting the "mixed" into mixed media, with mixed results. More largely failures and slight (accidental) successes.
Slowly, slowly...
1 September 2024
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This morning, the first of September, noticing the leaves have begun to turn and are falling from the trees.
Time to go and try and start my car.
Last night, work, slow, after work head down to the liquor store.
A bad habit, I know.
And from the alley behind the Hume there's a group of maybe 8 high school students, - slight, of slender build and height, coming out of ???
One of them recognizes me, says "hi", they've just been spelunking in the tunnels under Nelson. And I try and get details - what did they see, find, the only answer is "puddles", it sounds like no discoveries worth mentioning, merely the thrill of discovery.
This morning, coffee, this evening, work, between now and then I have to learn how to paint with watercolors. And that outlines the day...
KAOS
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This, a new series that contemporizes Greek Mythology (sets it in a current-day parallel universe), starring Jeff Goldblum as Zeus and narrated by Prometheus (Stephen Dillane).
Amusing, very well done, not the "10 Stars" the reviews have been giving it - It kind of is impossible to contemporize ancient beliefs and Gods, but it presents it in a way that is probably more accessible to a less classical audience.
AN episode and a half in, I'm not sure I'll stick out the whole series but we'll see.
A Scraper and a busted arrowhead
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Thursday evening, the boy having repossessed his car, I take the bus out the Balfour and spend an hour or so scouring the beach.
Not unproductive, although it's getting rather picked.
Left, a well knapped scraper, right-centre (brown) a broken arrowhead, top right a peculiarly broken piece of quartzite, which may or may not have been a scraper or tool, and under the loonie a tiny quartz point (close up it shows sign of being worked, although it just may be the grain of the quartz).
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Adding these to the box of arrowheads I've already collected - some, museum quality, others, well, a little ruder, but it's becoming quite the collection.
The next trip, probably after the fall rains, late October when the ferry's had a chance to churn up some new rocks.
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